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Firefox 3.5, due to be released in a final version before the end of June, was meant to be Firefox 3.1. Then Mozilla, the company behind it, became more ambitious, and so the release date was put back.
However, the company insists it will be worth the wait, since it will offer a total of 5,000 new features, including built-in video, geolocation, faster loading of pages, and much more.
"We’ve added technology we think upgrades the web itself," Firefox director Mike Beltzner told CNET.
With a final, full release still expected in the middle of this month, Mozilla has release the new beta of its Firefox 3 browser.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s VP of engineering, wrote in a blog posting:
"The second Firefox 3 release candidate is now available for download. It includes new features, as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed."
There have been some changes from RC1, especially in memory, where memory cycles are now broken, to be collected by an automated collector, and a new memory allocator lowers fragmentation, among other things.
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