Download Firefox 3.5, the fastest ever Firefox web browser
Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 on June 30th, 2009. What’s new about it? Should you upgrade/install?
According to Mozilla, Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past years. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use.
What’s new in Firefox 3.5 for ?
Super Speed — believe it or not, Firefox 3.5 is 2 times faster than the previous version Firefox 3. 10 times faster than Firefox 2!
Private browsing — now you can surf porn privately with Firefox 3.5 new private browsing feature. When it is enabled, you won’t leave a single browsing fingerprint behind for others to discover.
Location-Aware browsing — when you visit a location-aware supported website, Firefox can tell the website about your location, with your permission, so you can find more relevant and more useful information.
Play audio and video without plugin — Firefox 3.5 now support HTML5
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My two cents
I am amazed by the speed of Firefox 3.5, even though I have been using Firefox 3.5 beta and RC versions before the final version. It is so much faster, but not the fastest.
ZDNet did a web browser speed benchmark and showed that Firefox 3.5 is still slower (but close) than Google Chrome and Safari 4.
Speed is not everything. Remember, Firefox has over 6,000 add-ons to make your web surfing experiences better.
I tried to test the location-aware feature but it did not work for me. Anyone got it working on a desktop computer?
The buildt-n support of embedded video is cool. The Ogg video has better quality than H.264 (video format used by YouTube). The problem now is how many websites use the open video/audio format? Not till YouTube make a switch or it as an alternative, I think.
What do you think about Firefox 3.5? Is it your default web browser now?
Update: Firefox 3.5 gets the best score in UA Profiler test. (hat tip: Gen Kanai)
I have always liked Mozilla Firefox as my browser ever since it became available. I like how the webpages load. It’s simply a bit faster than that of IE. It’s so nice that they are always doing some upgrades to it.
already use FF as my default browser since I own a laptop… fascinated with the function, esp add on.
LcF, thanks for the review.
While speed tests are good, I’d like to recommend another test that Steve Souders (formerly Yahoo! now at Google) has created called UA Profiler.
http://stevesouders.com/ua/index.php
UA Profiler looks at a number of other key features that makes browsers fast besides JavaScript speed (such as parallel connections, caching, link prefetching, etc.) Firefox 3.5 gets the best score of any browser right now.
Have been using Firefox all the while but this is the SLOWEST version…. in loading (after reboot) .. it’s a bug and has been filed by Mozilla.
If any of of you face the problem of slow loading after reboot (from 20secs to a few minutes) … see this >> http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=de&forumId=1&comments_parentId=381674
Took nearly 3 mins for me, then after clearing IE cache, now it loads in 20secs :D … Google Chrome loads in 2secs flat.
I really like using Firefox software,
it will be my prefer web browser then internet explorer.
What do you tink about firefox
Is the latest firefox support maybank2u?
yes, I use Firefox and Maybank2u. No problem.
Firefox has been my only choice of web browser since 2004, for it’s better security and speed. I am not sure why my current version is not upgraded, but I will definitely give it a try. If you ask me about Internet Explorer… it has become a white elephant to me. :-)
Ever since I first used FF, I have made it my default browser. I only keep a copy of IE for testing purposes when I tweak some features of my blog or someone else's website. If Microsoft wants to keep up in the browser business, I guess they should burn IE and start from scratch again. I guess Bill's programmers are trapped in IE's weaknesses and limitations. They can't improve further until they work outside the IE framework.