FIREFOX 3.5
Mozilla Corporation released their latest version of open source Firefox web browser named “Firefox 3.5″. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in more than 70 different languages, and it is more than two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2. Moreover, it is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform. The major features of new Firefox include it supports many HTML5 capabilities and offers a private browsing mode as well as open source audio/video streaming capabilities. We can get better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. This new engine promise improved performances when running heavy JavaScript web applications and pages, such as Google Docs or Meebo. TraceMonkey definitely brings Firefox up to speed in the area of JavaScript performance. This version has ability to share our location with websites using Location Aware Browsing. With this feature, we can give permission to Firefox to figure out where we are based on your IP address and nearby wireless access points. This version also gives ability to play video and audio content without using plugins. Web developers can make use of native JSON parsing, and web worker threads. It also offers support for the canvas element in HTML 5 that allows the web developers to create animations. However, supports new web technologies such as down loadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and off line application storage. The two new items in the History menu namely ‘Recently Closed Tabs’ and ‘Recently Closed Windows’ allows the users to choose from a list of recently closed tabs or windows and reopen them. Another tab feature named ‘tab tearing’ allows to run a tab out of the current window into its own dedicated window. Its private browsing mode doesn’t save our browsing, search, download, or web form histories, or our cookies, or temporary Internet files. Its “Forget About This Site” history command, erase the specified site from our browser history. It also allows to set a time range to clear history items like our browsing, download, and form history, or our cache or cookies.