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Old 07-01-2009, 03:42 PM   #1 (permalink)
Psyko
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Default Firefox 3.5 released



Yep. It's here. I already upgraded and as far as I can see, it's a bit faster. According to the changelog, it's way more then that...

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• Available in more than 70 languages.
• Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
• Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
• 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.
Don't get your hopes up too much. For me, the speed hasn't been improved too much. Although, I haven't applied the "about:config" hacks yet, so we'll see.


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