What’s new with Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (RC)?

According to statistics, Firefox is the most commonly used browser in the market today. Firefox is the open-source web browser offer from Mozilla which recently released the Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) that will be out for public soon.

Here’s a video of Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox Development, giving a quick tour on what’s new with Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate):

Firefox 3.5 (RC), a beta version, has some cool new features in store for web developers, extension developers, and for everyone. Here’s some key features of this release:

* This release candidate is now available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
* 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 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Note that private browsing was first introduced by Google Chrome and now adapted by Firefox 3.5 (RC) and it’s good to keep the trend. Also, the support of latest web technology like HTML 5 and JSON is just in time. Looking forward to download the release of official Firefox 3.5.