Firefox 3.5 eyed for Tuesday release

By Paul Krill, InfoWorld | Internet, Firefox, Mozilla Add a new comment

June 26, 2009, 9:05 PM — Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon.

A key feature of the browser is the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which boosts performance and stability. Indeed, speed has been stressed as a key attraction of the upgrade.

[ InfoWorld's J. Pete Bruzzese takes a look into the IE8 vs. Firefox 3.5 browser wars, while Roger Grimes puts browsers to the security test. ]

A Private Browsing Model is highlighted as well, for control of private data. HTML 5 capabilities are included in such areas as encoded video.

A downloadable release candidate for version 3.5 as released Monday, following beta and preview releases this month.

Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld, focusing on coverage of application development (desktop and mobile) and core Web technologies such as HTML5, Java, and Flash.

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