After nearly a year in development (and six months later than planned) Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 today!  Many new exciting features for users and web developers:

• We have included tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode, and the ability to go back in time and Clear Recent History.
• Firefox 3.5 has support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
• The browser features faster performance on complex websites thanks to the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• Users can enjoy Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
• Web developers can make use of native JSON parsing, and web worker threads.
• This release includes improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Firefox 3.5 supports new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

Links of Interest:

• Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 (Microsoft Blog)
• Firefox 3.5: The Technologizer Review
• Video: What’s New In Firefox 3.5?
• All about Firefox 3.5 (Mozilla Links)

Source: Mozilla Developers News

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