Firefox 3.5 available

New Firefox brings quite a lot of new features. The most interesting one is the new JavaScript engine. The old one brought a lot of problems for the creators of Firefox. The new engine will be the key feature that will improve the efficiency of the browser. Web applications should work faster because the new Firefox supports native JSON parser for handling the information exchange between applications and servers. Another interesting feature is the availability of threads from JavaScript code. By using them, the web application can perform several things at once, for example calculations in the background.

Website developers can benefit from many new features that the new Firefox supports. One of them is the partial support for HTML5 including open audio/video formats through the audio and video tags. Also, CSS3 support has been improved. New Firefox supports fonts embedded in HTML documents, CSS3 transformations, and new selectors.

In addition, there is a private browsing mode, which is intended to provide privacy to users. When using the new mode all private data such as the history of visited pages, user names, passwords, queries made using the search bar, cookies, and the list of downloaded files are not saved. Also, when the browser operates in the private mode, cache is not used.

The latest version can be downloaded form the project website.