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Firefox 3.5 [FINAL]

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zridling:
[Ehtyar]: here are the new features in the most awesome browser ever....bias? what? who? *cough*
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Hard to dispute that. Firefox is pretty much setting the standard these days.

Ehtyar:
I've just discovered Firefox 3.1 BETA 2 portable (release notes) is out, so I just had to go and test (Follow the instructions here to run the beta concurrently to your 3.0 installation).

As most people are likely aware, Firefox 3.1 will include a new private browsing mode (known to many as "porno mode") which will see your browser forget everything that you did while it was enabled. This feature is now available in BETA 2. From the tools menu, select "Private Browsing". Firefox will revert back to your current session when you're finished.

Many will be thanking the gods that 3.1 now includes preliminary support for Web Workers. That is, multithreading support in the javascript engine. This will see the departure of days where you browser would lock up if it encountered a particularly nasty script somewhere that required more computation than your machine could provide in a reasonable amount of time.

TraceMonkey, Firefox's new and improved javascript engine, is enabled by default so you should see some added zippyness™ when visiting Gmail et al.

They've removed the new tab switching behavior shown here in post 1 due to negative user feedback.

The support for HTML 5 elements is now completely stable (as far as my experience goes). Give them a try yourself here.

Ehtyar.

J-Mac:
I probably won't use 3.1 for about three or four months after its release, if not later. Same with all new major/semi-major versions. They break most of the extensions, and frankly, IMO, Firefox isn't worth the time or effort if most of the extensions I use don’t work. Easier to jump back to Opera till I can add the extensions again. And yes, I do use the Nightly Tester Tools extension to force compatibility of extensions, but that usually works only for minor "point" updates. E.g., Tab Mix Plus would make the discussion about the Tab button moot.

As I always say, the best thing about Firefox is the extensions, and the worst thing about Firefox is the extensions!

Thanks!

Jim

Fedorov:
I'm using the nightly branch builds of 3.1 pre-beta3 and all my extensions such as NoScript, Adblock, TabMixPlus etc are all working fine. Most extensions, especially the really popular ones like those I just listed already have new versions released that work for Firefox 3.1 :)

Ehtyar:
I was using almost 50 extensions when 3.0 came out. At the end of two weeks I was missing only two, and neither of them was ever upgraded, so I did it myself.

Ehtyar.

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