Firefox 3.5 RC3 Release Candidate - Unleashing one more Monster

Firefox released one more RC for its v. 3.5 browser on 24th June 09. Firefox 3.5 RC3 is now open to download and test for those who are very much eager to test or those who are developers and want to develop some cool apps for the new realese candidate from the magic box of the Mozilla Labs. The Firefox 3.5 RC3 is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is the latest development milestone of Firefox 3.5, the next version of the Firefox web browser. While this release is considered to be stable, it is intended for developers and members of our testing community to use for early evaluation and feedback. Users of the latest released version of Firefox should not expect all of their add-ons to work properly with this milestone.

Here is a sneak peak of the new Firefox 3.5 RC3 :

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:

• 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 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Extensions and Themes:
Extensions installed under Firefox 3 may be incompatible and/or require updates to work with Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate). Please report any issues to the maintainer of the extension. When you install Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) all of your Extensions and Themes will be disabled until Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) determines that either a. they are compatible with the Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) release or b. there are newer versions available that are compatible.

To learn more about release notes for Firefox 3.5 RC3, you can visit the official website of Firefox 3.5 RC3.