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Firefox 3.5.1 Release Optimized Build

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Firefox 3.5.1 community edition en_US (20090718)

Firefox 3.5.1 community edition zh_TW (20090718)

Firefox 3.5.1 community edition zh_CN (20090718)

Firefox 3.5.1 community edition ja (20090718)

Firefox 3.5.1 community edition de (20090719)

Firefox 3.5.1 community edition fr (20090719)

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  • Firefox 3.5 Release Optimized Build

    Get Firefox!

    What’s New

    • Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Official Release Notes
    • Portable edition has been also provided since now. It will create a profile folder “Firefox (Profile)” if needed.
    • Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 9 months. Firefox 3.5 is an incremental release on the previous version with significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use
    • Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. (Try it here!)
    • Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode
    • Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
    • The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing. (Try it here!)
    • 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: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms
    • My builds: Reduce memory usage by using jemalloc
    • My builds: Speed improvement by using Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO)

    Firefox 3.5 community edition en_US (20090630)

    Firefox 3.5 community edition zh_TW (20090630)

    Firefox 3.5 community edition zh_CN (20090630)

    Firefox 3.5 community edition ja (20090701)

    Firefox 3.5 community edition de (20090701)

    Firefox 3.5 community edition fr (20090701)

    Popularity: 1% [?]

  • 29 Comments
  • Filed under: Gecko, IT