Last week, Mozilla Corp. released Firefox 3.5, the next iteration of the Firefox web browser.Visually, Firefox 3.5 is practically identical to Firefox 3. The majority of the changes are behind-the-scenes.
Firefox 3.5’s biggest improvement is speed. Javascript execution (which virtually every website uses) is now two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2. Mozilla also added support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard including open audio and video.
Another great improvement made in Firefox 3.5 is the addition of Private Browsing mode. While enabled, this mode prevents Firefox from logging any information about the sites visited. This is similar to the Clear Private Data feature of Firefox 3 but is a more proactive approach to privacy.
To read about the changes made in Firefox 3.5, check out the Release Notes. If you’re ready to change browsers or upgrade to Firefox 3.5, you can get it from Mozilla’s Firefox upgrade page.
