Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 RC2

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 , The new version can be downloaded from Mozilla website. Release Candidate 2 is the first version of Firefox 3.5 is faster and more stable than the before released beta versions. New features include new ways to work with the browser features to under-the-hood improvements that Mozilla developers claim will make .Here are some of the new features you'll find in Firefox 3.5.

Private Browsing

Like a number of new browsers, Firefox 3.5 adds a private browsing mode to its features.In private browsing mode, Firefox won't remember anything--history, cookies, usernames, or passwords--from your session. When you start private browsing, Firefox closes all of the pages that you currently have open, but it saves all of your open windows so you can quickly get back to what you were doing before switching to private browsing, which is a nice touch.

Purposeful forgetfullness

To provide further privacy, Firefox 3.5 can "forget" any particular site. While browsing one can open the History panel, right-click any website reference, and choose 'Forget This Site'.
It is a little difficult to remove all references to a site from your history. When you tell Firefox to forget a subdomain of a site, it won't forget other subdomains of that site.

Lost and Found Feature

Firefox 3.5 now permits sites to find your location by using your IP address and by gathering data about nearby Wi-Fi networks, via Google Location Services (if you have WWAN card in your notebook, it will use cell-phone towers to find your location, just as This feature could be particularly useful for people who are visiting map sites or business user-review sites in search of nearby locations (though few sites support geolocation at present).
For the sake of your security and privacy, each site that wants to use your location must have your permission to do so. Firefox sends your IP address, nearby Wi-Fi networks, and a unique random ID (which expires after two weeks) to the server in order to find your whereabouts.

Tear-Off Tabs

Tabs work better in Firefox 3.5 than in previous versions of the browser. Besides being able to rearrange the tab order, you can drag tabs off the toolbar and drop them either onto another Firefox window (to move the tab to that window) or onto your desktop to create a new window containing that tab.

This feature is not unique to Firefox 3.5. Both Chrome and Safari include the same functionality, and aesthetically their implementations may be a bit smoother. For example, if you drag tabs around in Safari or Chrome, the tabs rearrange in real time, whereas in Firefox you'll get an arrow indicating where the tab will go when you release the mouse button. In terms of functionality, though, Firefox's tear-off tabs work just as you'd expect them to.
Another subtle improvement to tabs is the addition of a small plus-sign (+) button on the tab bar, which makes creating a new tab a little more intuitive.

Get Back to What You Were Doing

Firefox 3.5 builds upon the previous Firefox's session-restore feature by remembering what you've entered into Web forms before you close the window. For example, suppose that I have to close the browser midway through replying to a reader comment on pcworld.com; when I reopen Firefox and restore my previous browser session, everything that I typed into the text box will still be there. It's about time a Web browser did this. A word of caution, though: If you start typing something that you don't want someone else to see later, be sure to delete it before you close the window.
Among Firefox 3.5's other new features are improved performance (Firefox claims that 3.5 is eight times faster at JavaScript performance than Firefox 3.0), integrated support for Ogg Theora video, and support for the latest and greatest Web technologies.

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