Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

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What's New in Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 10 months. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:

  • This beta is now available in 70 languages - get your local version.
  • Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
  • Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
  • The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
  • Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

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You're saying it's officially out? Is this the correct link? http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...d1/win32/en-US/

Installed and so far so good (updated from 3.1 b3)

This may help with some bugs:

Java SE 6 Update 14 b05 04/24/09

https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

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been trying this build, is it me or does it render a lot faster than the previous beta? :)
Might be Placebo effect but it feels the same way for me.

SunSpider seems to back up this feeling too, according to others, b3 did it in double the time b4 does it for me.

Regardless, I'm quite happy with it thus far :)

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It seems to have been removed. Not yet ready for primetime? I'm running the nightly, and it's great! I had an issue with Tab Mix Plus not working correctly, but I updated to a newer, 3.5 friendly version, and it works perfectly now. I'm wondering if I should try 3.6 now? Big enough difference from 3.5? I heard it starts up faster, so that's a plus. Something that's sorely needed in my opinion. If only it could start and run as fast and smoothly as Chrome! Anyone know of an extension that makes the tabs move so fluidly when re-arranging them like Chrome has? Without moving the tab bar to the top.

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