Firefox 3.5 is now available for download!

Mozilla is proud and pleased to present Firefox 3.5, now available for download at http://www.firefox.com. Firefox 3.5 has been under development for the past year, contains many new exciting features for users and web developers, and is our fastest Firefox release ever. A video highlighting some of these new features is available, describing how:

* Firefox 3.5 is available in more than 70 languages – get your local
* We have included tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode, and the ability to go back in time and Clear Recent History.
* Firefox 3.5 has support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
* The browser features faster performance on complex websites thanks to the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
* Users can enjoy Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
* Web developers can make use of native JSON parsing, and web worker threads.
* This release includes improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
* Firefox 3.5 supports new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.
As always Firefox 3.5 is available as a free download at http://www.firefox.com. Firefox 3.0 users can update their existing browser by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the “Tools” menu in Firefox.

We encourage web and Add-on developers to read the Firefox 3.5 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.

Note: users already running a Firefox 3.5 Beta or Release Candidate can also obtain an update to this latest Release Candidate version by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the “Help” menu. If no update is available, you already have the final version!

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