Firefox 1.5 RC out

[Chris Brandsma]

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 - 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.

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
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