This is the day for the Mozilla Foundation. After a few weeks late and online three Release Candidate, Firefox 3.5 final version is already available for all people or all languages.
Evolution of the major red panda, this new version is expected to meet the offensive of Microsoft with its Internet Explorer 8 or 4 Safari and Opera 10.
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The innovations announced are many (even if they concern primarily the engine of the browser and not necessarily the user functions):
Firefox 3.5 is expected to be faster with TraceMonkey JavaScript engine to boost including navigation and viewing of web 2.0 applications. The application will also propose a new HTML rendering engine (Gecko 1.9.1), again allowing more speed.
JSON and Web Workers will be supported natively. Furthermore, this new version will include audio and video tags from the HTML5.
From the user side, no significant changes noted on aesthetics but the integration of a navigation mode that will allow private surfing without leaving a trace (a function already present in IE8). Firefox 3.5 also offers "floating tabs" that allow you to switch easily from one window to another and managing favorite rewritten.