Firefox 3.5 scheduled for Tuesday release

Category: Internet, Software
Posted: June 29, 2009 09:49AM
Author: d3bruts1d

PC Magazine has confirmed that Firefox 3.5, the next major update to Mozilla's popular web browser, is scheduled for release Tuesday morning. Originally planned as Firefox 3.1, Mozilla decided around the time of the third beta that a more significant version number was needed to emphasize the "sheer volume of work" that made this release feel like more than just an incremental improvement over Firefox 3.0.x. Some of the enhancements you can expect to see in Firefox 3.5 are:

Private browsing and enhancements to data privacy,
"TraceMonkey" JavaScript engine,
Improvements to the Gecko layout and rendering engine,
Support for location aware services,
HTML 5 support (support for embedded Ogg files, and offline resources).

There have been three release candidates leading up to tomorrow's scheduled release of Firefox 3.5, all of which came in the month of June. Prior to the June 19 availability of 3.5RC1 there were four beta versions stretching all the way back into October when Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 was made available.