The suffix was upgraded on 3.1 to 3.5, while Mozilla reached the conclusion the number of new facets and performance improvement erected the browser more of a "major upgrade", in its place as opposed to an incremental upgrade with bug fixes.
The main selling point of Firefox 3.5 (codenamed Shiretoko) is overly the browser should be much faster, remarkably when running JavaScript (which will promptness up the likes of Facebook, Gmail, and Digg).
The swiftness boost is first and foremost due to Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, with claims a few scripts run up to twice as fast on 3.5 put against to Firefox 3.0.
The browser is Mozilla's attempt to get going back the momentum in the browser wars, with increased competition from Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, Opera, and of class Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Around 800,000 users have been running the beta versions of the improved browser, as developers was effective to get rid of niggly bugs.
New features affix a new Private Browsing Mode, an enhanced address bar called the 'Awesomebar' (which supplies autocomplete suggestions as you're typing), and an improved system restore service to recover from browser crashes.
Firefox 3.5 also boasts dynamic colour profiles for more accurate image representation, Geo-location, a redesigned Downloads feature, multi-touch support, and in-browser video rendering (ie. video playback without patented plugins).
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