Firefox 1.5 RC1 is now out. Here are some of the release notes (
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/)
Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering
platform, which has been under development for the past year. 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 more than 70
languages<http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2009/04/15/firefox-35-beta-4-69-localiza...>-
get your local
version <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html#languages>.
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private
Browsing Mode <http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private+Browsing>.
- Better performance and stability with the new
TraceMonkey<https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:TraceMonkey>JavaScript
engine.
- The ability to provide Location Aware
Browsing<http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/geolocation>using web
standards for geolocation.
- Support for native
JSON<http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/02/12/native-json-in-firefox-31/>,
and web worker threads<https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_DOM_workers>
.
- 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<https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_3.5_for_developers>at
the Mozilla
Developer Center <https://developer.mozilla.org/>.
Also note: there was a link this morning about getting Firebug to work with
the Firefox RC
http://blog.getfirebug.com/?p=204
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Christopher Brandsma
http://www.ChrisBrandsma.com
http://www.ElegantCode.com
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