Download Firefox 3.5: Private Browsing Is Not That Private
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Firefox 3.5 has come up with lots of improvements and has also introduced some useful new features with special emphasis on privacy. Although it is not as radical as the broad architectural overhaul that was undertaken for the 3.0 release, the development effort for 3.5 has brought many important changes to the browser.
Features
User interface: By default, the browser will now display the tab bar when there is only one tab. This change will improve the discoverability of tabbed browsing and will also be welcomed by users who find it jarring when the tab bar pops into view after the addition of a second tab. Another subtle change is the inclusion of a button in the tab bar that can be used to create a new tab.
In Firefox 3.5, you can now drag tabs between windows without disrupting page state or suffering a forced refresh. The 3.5 release also adds support for snapping tabs out of the browser to create a new window. Dragged tabs are accompanied by a translucent page thumbnail that makes it easier for those of us with short attention spans to remember exactly what they are dragging.
Session Management: The 3.0 release introduced support for reopening closed tabs. The developers have expanded on that in 3.5 by adding the ability to reopen a closed window. Crash recovery is also handled better now. When the browser is restarted after a crash, the user will be presented with a session restore screen that will show them the contents of their session and allow them to select which tabs should be restored.
Speed: The browser was fitted with a new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey that uses an innovative optimization technique to deliver significantly faster execution speed. The TraceMonkey engine makes JavaScript noticeably faster in Firefox 3.5, enabling developers to leverage client-side scripting for computationally intensive tasks.
HTML Video: The most noteworthy HTML 5 feature to arrive in Firefox 3.5 is support for the video element, an HTML tag that allows videos to be embedded in Web pages without requiring proprietary plugins. This is highly advantageous because it will make it possible for video content to be seamlessly manipulated through the Document Object Model (DOM) via JavaScript and CSS. It breaks down the barriers between video and the rest of the page, making multimedia a first-class citizen on the Web.
Privacy: Most talked about feature of Firefox 3.5 is the private browsing mode also called by some as porn mode because the browser will not save the visited site in history but the servers visited by the users will have the trace of visits. Privacy can be implemented on the users computer only and should not be assumed that the servers visited will also forget that you were there.
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