Firefox 3.5 in the news
filed in News, Software on Jul.01, 2009
Firefox 3.5 – it’s not a ‘web upgrade’
From the user’s perspective, Firefox 3.5 is better – but not dramatically so. The first notable new feature is private browsing, a catch-up with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Google Chrome that lets you browse web sites without leaving traces in browser history or temporary files. Next comes Tear Off Tabs, which – as in Apple’s Safari – allows tabs to be dragged into a separate browser window. A neat touch is Recently Closed Tabs and Recently Closed Windows, which gets you back where you were after accidentally closing a page.
Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 1: How private is private browsing?
This is the week that the Mozilla organization is expected to unveil what may very well be the most significant half-point release in its history: the 3.5 edition of the Firefox browser. While Betanews tests confirm the new version literally blows away its own predecessor in terms of speed, operating two-and-one-half times faster in page rendering and functionality on average, your own eyes will tell you it’s a much faster browser.
Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 2: Are bookmarks outmoded?
You remember bookmarks, don’t you? How folks used to recall Web pages they’d visited, back before the Google Toolbar? One Web browser still remembers
Mozilla looking beyond Firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 is not even out for general release yet, but Mozilla are already suggesting that the trunk builds of its successor are 20-30 per cent faster and will build on the company’s work on video integration. Video is a central improvement of Firefox 3.5, according to Vice President of Engineering Mike Shaver, who told TechRadar that work was well underway on making the browser even better. “3.5 is important to keep the momentum going from 3.0,” said Shaver. “It brings some momentous tools to the browser including video and extreme high performance javascript. “We’re going to continue to improve – this isn’t a fire and forget thing and you know we have these graphs of our performance and already our trunk builds for the next version are another 20 to 30 percent faster”
An Upgraded Mozilla.com for an Upgraded Firefox
As you no doubt have heard by now, we launched Firefox 3.5 today…a triumphant and exciting moment made possible by a lot of hard work from a lot of very smart, talented and dedicated people around the world. The result is a shiny new Firefox that includes dramatically improved performance, support for open video and other web standards, and new features ranging from geolocation to private browsing. Great stuff all around.
Firefox 3.5 has a range of new features, including a new JavaScript engine for faster Web applications such as Google Docs; the ability to show video built into Web pages without plug-ins; a private browsing mode; fancy downloadable fonts; and geolocation technology that can let Web sites know where you are.
Firefox 3.5’s Benchmark Scores Brutalize IE 8, Almost Tie Chrome
Mozilla, via its Web site, is claiming Firefox 3.5 is the fastest version to date. Benchmarking tests done by Test Center reviewers prove that claim to be well-founded. In fact, Chrome, heralded for its nimbleness, and Firefox are at a pretty even level when it comes to performance. Both battered Internet Explorer 8 in benchmark testing.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5: Life In The Fast Lane
Mozilla released a new edition of its popular open-source Web browser, Firefox. The latest edition of the open-source browser, Firefox 3.5, claims to be the fastest version to date.
Firefox 3.5 delivers a hefty list of new features, which explains the decision to use that version number rather than 3.1. (The previous version was 3.0.) Improved speed is a theme of Firefox 3.5, with faster page rendering thanks to changes to the Gecko rendering engine, and faster JavaScript execution by the new TraceMonkey engine. According to Mozilla, the new version of Firefox is twice as fast as its predecessor. TraceMonkey delivers better performance through just-in-time compilation, using the Trace Trees technique developed at the University of California, Irvine. The method is said to allow compilers to work more quickly and in less memory.
First look: Firefox 3.5 released, ready to “upgrade” the Web
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3.5, the next major version of its popular open source Web browser. Ars takes a close look at the new version and evaluates its enhancements. Support for HTML 5 video and other important emerging Web standards make this one of the most significant Firefox releases ever.
Firefox 3.5: Excellent for fans, but competition getting tougher
Firefox 3.5 brings the world’s second-most popular browser up to speed with current browsing technology and trends, and perhaps nudges it just a bit ahead of the competition. However, it is by no means the leap ahead that its predecessor Firefox 3 was, and it’s clear that the competition isn’t going away anytime soon.
Top 5 Killer Features in Firefox 3.5
Almost exactly a year after the last release, the latest version of Firefox, the world’s second most used browser, arrived today in over 70 languages, and it’s already spreading like wildfire to users around the globe. Firefox (Firefox) 3.5 has some notable improvements over its predecessor, though many of them, such as support for native JSON and web worker threads, are geared toward developers.
