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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2A more stable build following the release of Firefox 3.5 RC1 a day ago is now available for download on the Mozilla ftp site under its release directory. The new release candidate has already been distributed to Mozilla's mirror servers and is available for download from third-party sites like Major Geeks. The web browser can also be downloaded directly from the Mozilla website or from within Firefox using the automatic update option.

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is the seventh development milestone of Firefox 3.5, the next version of the Firefox web browser. Here are what's new on this new browser build:

- This release candidate is now available in more than 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

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