Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Firefox released v3.5

Mozilla has released the next major version of Firefox, v3.5 It has support for HTML 5 video, security and speed enhancements. Privacy improvements include a private browsing mode that allows you to surf the web without leaving a trail in the browser's history, cache and cookies. This puts it inline with the latest enhancements to IE 8, Safari and Chrome.

Not all existing plugins have been updated so some of the programs you may currently use with Firefox 3.0.x may not work until their next release.

There are a few glitches reported. Some user said their bookmarks did not import properly. Many users reported no problems.

If some photos viewed in FF3.5 suddenly seem really dark and/or contrasty after the upgrade, there's a known bug in 3.5 that causes it to mis-display photos with embedded ICC v4 profiles on certain wide-gamut monitors. The only workaround is to disable FF's nice color profiling system until they release a fix, likely in a near future update.

Ars technica review of FF 3.5

You can download Firefox 3.5 from here

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