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New Features on Firefox 3.5

The latest beta version of Firefox is now available as a preview release. Firefox 3.5 provide more update and boost its performance. Firefox 3.5 download link

• HTML 5 support

Using audio and video in Firefox
Firefox 3.5 adds support for the HTML 5 audio and video elements.

Offline resources in Firefox
Firefox 3.5 now fully supports the HTML 5 offline resource specification.

The HTML 5 drag and drop API allows support for dragging and dropping items within and between web sites. This also provides a simpler API for use by extensions and Mozilla-based applications.

• Newly-supported CSS features

Downloadable fonts support, CSS media queries, opacity, text-shadow, word-wrap, using css transform, and more…

• New DOM features

localStorage, Using DOM workers, Using geolocation, Mouse gesture events, and more…

• New JavaScript features

New in JavaScript 1.8.1, Using native JSON, Object.getPrototypeOf()

• Performance

Faster JavaScript performance
JavaScript, the “J” in “AJAX,” is sped up dramatically in Firefox 3.5 with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. Web applications are much faster than in Firefox 3.

Faster page rendering
Web content draws faster in Firefox 3.5, thanks to technologies such as “speculative parsing.” Your users don’t need to know what it means, other than “it makes things draw faster.

• Security and privacy

Private Browsing
Need to use someone else’s computer? Switch on Private Browsing mode and nothing will be recorded about your session, including cookies, history, and any other potentially private information.

Better privacy controls
The Privacy preference pane has been completely redesigned to offer users more control over their private information. Users can choose to retain or discard anything including history information, cookies, downloads, and form field information. In addition, users can specify whether or not to include history and/or bookmarks in the location bar’s automated suggestions, so you can keep private web addresses from popping up unexpectedly while typing in the location bar.

There are still more features on firefox 3.5, see more on SpreadFirefox.com.

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