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Firefox 3.5 arrives

Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth in Browsers, Uncategorized

Firefox 3.5 is out now. Mozilla says the newest version of their browser will be more than twice as fast and more useful.

Some new features:

1) Undo closed window: Firefox 3.5 implements a restore feature for both tabs and windows from the History menu, which would (hopefully) also restore any text you’ve typed into them.
2) Forget this site: Firefox 3.5’s history browser offers a convenient “Forget this site” option, erasing your browser’s memory of particular domains.
3) Tab tearing: Grab a tab and drag it out a bit to create a new browser window from it. Drag windows into tabs again, and open any tab in a new window from the right-click menu, if clicking and dragging isn’t your style.
4) Color profiles that pop: Firefox 3.5 introduces dynamic color profiles for each picture, meaning that whatever the graphic designer or photographer saw when they were doing their work, you’ll see it on their web page.
5) TraceMonkey JavaScript engine: JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, is claimed to be muchfaster than the SpiderMonkey engine installed in Firefox 3.
6) Geo-location: Integrated geo-location, powered by Google’s Wi-Fi triangulation and simple IP address information, looks to know roughly where you are and help you when you’re looking for something local.
7) Support for HTML 5: A lot of the new stuff in Firefox 3.5 is support for new web technologies that only web developers will really geek out on. But some of those new technologies, like HTML 5 and the CSS @font-face rule, will have a noticeable positive effect for users.

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4. One Billion Downloads of Firefox!
5. Make Firefox Look Like Google Chrome

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