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Author: Lisa Kachold
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Firefox 3.5 Available
You all know what to do?

Wooh, Hooh! TraceMonkey, Ogg Theora vid, Vorbis audio, PRIVATE BROWSING
MODE, LAB, native JSON, worker threads, ICC profiles, more...

What’s New in Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 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. Some of the notable features are:

- Available in more than 70 languages. (Get your local
version!<http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html#languages>
)
- Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native
support for Ogg
Theora<http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/update-on-open-video-quality/>encoded
video and Vorbis encoded audio. (Try
it here! <http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/video/>)
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private
Browsing Mode <http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private+Browsing>.
- Better web application performance using the new
TraceMonkey<https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:TraceMonkey>JavaScript
engine.
- The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware
Browsing <http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/geolocation>. (Try it
here!<http://www.flickr.com/map>
)
- Support for native
JSON<http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/02/12/native-json-in-firefox-31/>,
and web worker threads<https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_DOM_workers>
.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing
for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media
queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors,
HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC
profiles <http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/color-correction/>, and SVG
transforms.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new
features<https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_3.5_for_developers>at
the Mozilla
Developer Center <https://developer.mozilla.org/>.
System Requirements

Before installing, make sure your computer meets the system
requirements<http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html>
.
Downloading

Mozilla provides Firefox 3.5 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety
of languages. You can get the latest version of Firefox 3.5
here<http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html>.
For builds for other systems and languages not provided by Mozilla.org, see
the Contributed Builds section at the end of this document.
Installing

Please note that installing Firefox 3.5 *will overwrite* your existing
installation of Firefox. You won’t lose any of your bookmarks or browsing
history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until
updates for them are made available. *You can reinstall an older version
later if you wish to downgrade.*
From: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/

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