I'm writing this post using the recently released Firefox 3.5 RC1, and I tell you one can really feel how faster it is. It feels like now its performance is at the same levels of Chrome 2.0 and Safari 4.

There are a lot of improvements on this version, but the most noticeable are:

• Faster navigation
• Embeded video and audio management
• Enhaced privacy controls and history management, including a quick link to recently closed tabs
• Location aware browsing: by allowing Firefox to know where you are, you can do different things like: geo-targeted blog posts, be able to do local searches faster, etc..
• Downloadable fonts: site developers will finally be able to use creative fonts that will work (well, at least for Firefox users, for now)
• + icon to open a new tab (finally!)
• Use the URL box to type your search queries, just like in Chrome

See the complete list of new features here.

Download Firefox 3.5 RC. Please remember that this is a release candidate version, so you may experience some glitches.

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