Gizmodo: firefox 3.5

Activate Multitouch Gestures in Firefox 3.5

Mark Wilson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:40:00 EDT

During the Firefox 3.5 beta, a few people stumbled upon a neat, unadvertised feature. By twisting their fingers on a Macbook's multitouch pad, they were able to roll through their loaded tabs. But Firefox 3.5 (official) deactivated the trick.

Luckily, as Crunchgear explains, the multitouch trick can be reactivated! You can read the very simple instructions over at their site, then realize that you can actually modify the settings to use gestures beyond the twist (like a three-finger swipe). But until we see incorporation of middle-finger-activated autotrolling, we're holding our excitement at bay. [Crunchgear]

Get Firefox 3.5 Final Right Now

matt buchanan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:27:07 EDT

Firefox 3.5 is worlds better than 3.0 with powers like geo-location and serious speed to compete with Chrome and Safari 4, so grab it nownownow. Update: It's official! [Firefox, Softpedia via DS]

Firefox 3.5 Arriving This Month, Release Candidate Available Now

John Herrman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:34:00 EDT

Firefox has quietly seeded a Firefox 3.5 release candidate to beta users through the browser's automatic update function, and posted it for download here. This version should be nearly identical to the final release, which Mozilla says is due " around the end of the month." [CNET via Pocket-Lint—Thanks, JJ!]

Firefox 3.5 Beta Available for Download

John Herrman — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:18:24 EDT

The Firefox team has posted the first Firefox beta to carry the 3.5 version number, and it's a pretty hefty update. What's included? For starters, there's improved private browsing, and the lightning-fast TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

If you feel like 3.5 has kind of appeared out of the blue, you're not crazy—the Firefox team deemed this set of changes as too significant for a 3.1beta4 designation, and gave it a more impressive name.

But boring Mozilla politics aside, this release—the final beta for this cycle—is more than another 3.1 build, and actually deserves its half-step name boost: The private mode is accompanied by much broader options than either Chrome's or Safari 4's, the geocaching and HTML 5 video and audio features are pretty cool, at least on concept, and an undo close feature can heroically salvage lost tabs. Most importantly, with TraceMonkey and a few other rendering engine tweaks, the browser at least feels faster than 3.0, so it's definitely worth a download. Full feature list below. [The Inquirer]

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 10 months. 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 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 and elements,
downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data
storage for applications, and SVG transforms.