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Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 now available

Apr. 28, 2009 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

It looks like Mozilla has released a new beta of Firefox 3.5 (formerly 3.1):

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta.

Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) Beta 4 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.5.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

  • This beta is now available in 70 languages - get your local version.
  • Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
  • Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
  • The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
  • Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5

Thanks to Brett H. for the tip.

Discuss this Article 10

darkmax
on Apr 28, 2009
Got it and running. It seems a bit faster than before.
LandonAB
on Apr 28, 2009
As of this morning x-marks wasn't supporting it. Need x-marks to keep my bookmarks synced.
techfan
on Apr 28, 2009
I don't know if it's my computer (it's about 5 years old) or Firefox (I think it might be Firefox) but even with a clean install (no addons) if I run the browser, my computer completely freezes and the only way to have access to it is by going a hard boot. IE8 is still my default browser. I think it'll be Chrome that takes the backup browser spot. Firefox is good but I like Chrome better (though Chrome is way too limited feature-wise to be used as an everyday browser, IMO). I might give Firefox another try after I get Windows 7 (on a my computer).
Saucy
on Apr 28, 2009
Thanks, but no thanks.
darkmax
on Apr 28, 2009
I installed it without any problem. All I can confirm is that Adblock Plus, IE Tab and Download Ststus Bar are all working. This version is definitely faster than IE8.
bettieblu
on Apr 28, 2009
Firefox 3.1/3.5 does blow away IE, big time. It blew away Safari as well, until 4.0 came out. Both are faster than IE. That said I have finally come to the conclusion that FF is always broken in some way. FF is the only app to ever crash on my Macbook that I have had since Oct 2007. It does this at least once a day. I have gone back to IE7 on Windows and Safari 4.0 on OS X, they just work.
robertsjoe
on Apr 28, 2009
Chrome and Safari are the best browsers out there. Then FF then IE in last place. It's that simple.
simongoldring
on Apr 28, 2009
After being a firefox user for about 4 years, I switched to IE8 on Windows 7, mainly for the per-tab process isolation (accidently opening a pdf in firefox wasn't fun) and for the Windows 7 integration features. However, I do wish that if you *clicked* on the taskbar button while running IE8, your most recently viewed tab came up.
sttevo
on Apr 29, 2009
I use Firefox still, but only for the extensions. As soon as there are good replacements for Chrome I'll switch to that. IE8 has been good so far, but I like the simplicity and speed of Chrome.
Dude1313
on Apr 29, 2009
Ad Block Plus= enough said

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