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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5

Tuesday June 30, 2009 10:06 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5, a significant upgrade to the world's second-most popular Internet browser. Webmonkey summarizes some of the more important advances in the latest version, including speed enhancements, support for HTML 5, geolocation services, search improvements, and the addition of a private browsing mode.

Originally envisioned as a quick follow-up to 2008's release of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla ended up packing in quite a few extra features into its flagship browser and spent months making sure that Firefox 3.5 was the fastest, most powerful Firefox yet.

Firefox 3.5 brings with it entirely new and much faster rendering engines for both static web pages and the JavaScript code that powers today's complex web-based applications. There are new privacy features, new capabilities for playing video and audio files and improved search tools. There are also a handful of other new features that should prove useful for both Firefox devotees and newcomers alike.

Firefox 3.5 is available for OS X (10.4 or later), Windows, and Linux and is available in nearly 75 languages.
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Andy-V
34 months ago
Nice update. Been using the RC for a while.
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flapperdink
34 months ago
nice. i recently switched to safari 4 at home because it was faster. hopefully FF3.5 is just as fast...i got very used to FF at work and would go back in a hearbeat at home if it was as fast as safari.
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SolRayz
34 months ago
Have they smoothed out the scrolling on 3.5? I like Firefox but the ultra smooth scrolling in Safari keeps me from switching.
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kirky29
34 months ago
Still slow for me.

Safari is king.
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FF_productions
34 months ago
Firefox 3.5 is fast as hell...wow, I'd like to see some benchmarks..
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GimmeSlack12
34 months ago
So long Safari 4.0, you're fun but you don't switch tabs as easily as Firefox. Safari just doesn't seem as solid as Firefox, I know that's a very scientific fact, but I just am not as comfortable with Safari.

Seriously, if Safari would switch tabs by Cmd-1, 2, 3... it would be tough for me to go back to Firefox (any tips are welcome).
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dwd3885
34 months ago
I haven't used firefox since safari 4. But I'll check it out again. On a side note, They should make Firefox for the iPhone, although I'm not sure it would be accepted into the app store
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iSee
34 months ago
I love that Safari and FF seem to be competing to be the best browser. Whichever is ahead at the moment hardly matters; we all win whichever one we prefer.
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goodwilldrums
34 months ago
Firefox 3.5 is the first browser to support open video formats, allowing movies to become part of today’s dynamic web pages without requiring a plug-in.

Also, the best part about FF for me is the recently closed tab. Safari has yet to catch on to this much needed feature. If you accidentally close a tab you didn't mean to in Safari, you have to open a new tab and try to remember which page you were on. In FF, all you do is History > Recently closed tabs, and they're all there.

Love that feature!
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Mr Maui
34 months ago
Hopefully it will stabilize Firefox a bit. Ever since I upgraded from Firefox 3 to Firefox 3, my browser crashes with regularity. I use to love Firefox, but use Safari more these days because Firefox 3 has nice features, but crashes regularly.
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