Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate released

Mozilla Firefox 3.5, the next version of the legendary web browser has reached the final milestone before its release – the official Release Candidate. While early builds of the release candidate were already available for users who were test driving the Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 (was released as Beta 99), Mozilla have now made it publicly available for those who want to jump in on the fun.

If you didn’t already know, Firefox 3.5 is a major step forward from Firefox 3. That’s why Mozilla had changed the name of the next version from Firefox 3.1 to Firefox 3.5 to highlight the significance of the new release. The latest version packs a lot of new features that would change your browsing experience. Some of the major highlights include:

• Private Browsing Mode
• TraceMonkey JavaScript Engine
• Support for Location Aware browsing
• Support for CSS 3 using the Gecko 1.9.1 engine
• Support for HTML 5 elements including audio, video, SVG, enhanced canvases, etc.

And that is just the topping. There is a lot more power inside the Firefox 3.5, which makes it the best alternative browser in the market today. The latest version of the release candidate is slated to be the final stepping stone for the full release. It is available in over 70 different languages and localizations, though you still wont get it in URDU.

Just because it is a pre-release version, it doesn’t mean that you would have issues driving this build. You can download it for Windows, Mac and Linux right now. You should be able to upgrade it to the final release automatically once it hits the server farms.

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