Firefox 3.5 RC1 Is Available for Download

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.5 Real Candidate 1 (RC1) is here and ready for download.  A "Real Candidate" is one step above a "beta" but is still not quite final.

Installation is recommended only for those who may be curious to see what the next major iteration of Firefox brings to the table.

Be advised that installing Firefox 3.5 RC1 will overwrite your existing version of Firefox.  All of your history and bookmarks should be fine, but some add-ons may not work properly.

Here’s what you get with Firefox 3.5 RC1:

- 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 and elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
- it is available in more than 70 languages

Get Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1 now at the official Firefrox site.

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