Firefox 3.5 Released
After a long wait through betas and release candidates, Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 3.5 earlier this morning.
For the release today, June 30, is around one year after the release of version 3.0 and six months after the originally planned release of a new version. It was formerly to be named as 3.1. But as more functionality and features grew, the .1 wasn’t enough for all the updates to be expressed.
The increase in scope represented by TraceMonkey and Private Browsing, plus the sheer volume of work that’s gone into everything from video and layout to places and the plugin service make it a larger increment than we believe is reasonable to label 3.1.
-Mozilla’s engineering vice president Mike Shaver
Major features in 3.5 include:
- TraceMonkey Javascript engine which Mozilla says is faster than SpiderMoney in 3.0
- Private browsing mode, to bring a common feature between Apple, Microsoft, and Google
- Browsing based on your location
- Support for HTML 5
You can grab the new version from their website here.
