Article Source Linux Magazine
May 11, 2009, 3:04 pm

Firefox 3.5 is coming very soon, and this release includes a number of features that up the ante for Web browsers and the Web as an application platform. Some of the game-changing features in Firefox 3.5 won’t be immediately visible to end-users, but they’ll allow Web developers to build Web applications that make the Web even more fun and useful than it already is. Let’s take a look at five of the prominent features you can test drive today in Firefox 3.5.

You can grab tarballs from Mozilla the Mozilla beta announcement page, though many Linux distros also have testing packages available as add-on repositories. For instance, openSUSE users can add the mozilla:beta repository to track the latest Firefox development packages. This gives the added advantage of allowing you to track updates via your distro’s update process, but does mean that updates will usually lag a few days behind the official Moz builds...

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Yippe!
written by Khalid, May 13, 2009

Hopefully, it will outcome IE and other crappy web browsers

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Mibbit as default IRC handler
written by Joshua, May 13, 2009

If I'm not mistaken Mibbit will also be the default [url=http://blog.mibbit.com/?p=246IRC handler in this release. Not as default of course but you can pick it from the list of applications.

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written by Rudy Grigar, May 13, 2009

It will be interesting the see where the tag takes us, the future of flash, and whether or not I'll be able to easily watch youtube on my ppc64 workstation inside of Firefox.

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written by Rudy Grigar, May 13, 2009

the video tag ^^

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Firefox 3.5
written by Emperor, May 14, 2009

I use Firefox 3.5 by now and it is really great. I think it is a little bit faster, too.

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written by CYREX, May 14, 2009

Firefox 3.5 will bring the audio and video tags of html 5. A Drag & Drop support that will work between websites. Which i really would like to play with since it gives a "object feeling" to it.
It will also be compatible with the latest acid test and better performance compared to previous versions. In a test i conducted for the beta 4 i got pretty good results vs other browsers. Hope to see in this version of Firefox a more faster, stable and safer way for internet browsing like they have always showed.

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