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[Aethec]

It is hidden for now...

Here's the link for FF 3.5 RC1 in US English for Windows :
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/down...&lang=en-US

If you want another language/system...

1) Go to http://www.mozilla.c...x/all-beta.html
2) Right-click on your system and language link >> Copy link.
3) Open a new tab and hit Ctrl + V (paste)
4) Replace "b4" in url with "rc1"
5) Hit Enter.

It has a new logo
Changelog :

Quote

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:

• This beta 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.

If you want to use all your extensions without having to install Nightly Testers Tools :

1)Go to about:config.
2)New value >> Boolean.
Name : extensions.checkCompatibility
Value : false

[metalj]

Aethec, on Jun 17 2009, 04:51 AM, said:

It has a new logo

Looks great!
I can't wait for the final release.

Thanks for the links and info.
I wonder why they have it hidden.

[Icedrake]

Is it fast? What are it's scores on Acid3 and Acid2 tests.

[aqua]

yes is faster than previous versions...and i think i heard final will be release in a couple of days..

[Corona]

I'll wait for the final.

[Aethec]

Icedrake, on Jun 18 2009, 12:30 AM, said:

Is it fast? What are it's scores on Acid3 and Acid2 tests.

It's fast...
Acid2 100%, Acid3 93%....Having 100% at an Adic Test is not the most important thing on a browser

[Winapp2.ini]

I find that its prone to memory leaks if you work with a lot of opening and closing tabs, after an hour or two on myspace FireFox.exe is using like 1.2GB of ram..

[Icedrake]

Wow, that's way too much RAM for a browser to use. I'll be sticking with Chromium for now.

[Winapp2.ini]

proof

[ishan_rulz]

@Winapp2.ini

That's funny, what are your PC specs?

[ishan_rulz]

I am using RC2

And my Laptop has been turned on for more than 72 hours with Firefox and multi tabbing, and it's taking only 5% - 6% of my RAM!

[Winapp2.ini]

Try opening a lot and closing them really fast then opening more, about 10-15 at a time. In about 20 minutes the ram usage will be up.

I'm running windows XP SP3 with 4.0 (3.2, lol 32bit)gb of ram and dual core 2.2ghz processor.

[TeeJay3800]

So Firefox 3.5 has the potential to use well over a gig of RAM when running? That sucks. One of my machines has 1 GB of RAM, and the other only has 256 MB. It sounds like performance of 3.5 would suck on those machines.

[Winapp2.ini]

TeeJay3800, on Jun 20 2009, 09:28 PM, said:

So Firefox 3.5 has the potential to use well over a gig of RAM when running? That sucks. One of my machines has 1 GB of RAM, and the other only has 256 MB. It sounds like performance of 3.5 would suck on those machines.

In theory, but these leaks were caused by opening A LOT of tabs and closing them after a few minutes.

[rridgely]

I just downloaded RC2.
There is no reason why any firefox user would all of a sudden not like this one.

The new icon is kind of lame... but its not that hard to change it.
Aside from a few graphical changes(new tab button, history mangement in options, ect) There aren't any noticeable differences to me.

I dont notice any speed differences while browsing and it isn't any more or less responsive. ram usage is exactly the same as it was. I'm picky and this one has no complaints from me.(and I'm pretty sure its not changing much from rc2 to final).