

It included a new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which is not enabled by default, and the implementation of the W3C Geolocation API. On October 14, 2008, the first beta of Firefox 3.1 was released. Version 3.1 Alpha 2 was launched on September 5, 2008, implementing the HTML 5 video element support and preliminary support for web worker thread, enhancing the speed of some JavaScript computations. The Alpha release showed an 18% improvement in the Acid3 test over Firefox 3.0, scoring 84/100. The Gecko engine was updated to include CSS3 features and includes the HTML Canvas text API. The Awesomebar was also improved to have filtering by Bookmarks and history. When switching thumbnails are displayed so the user can preview the tabs before switching to them. A new tab switching behavior was implemented, that switches to the most recently used tab instead of the adjacent one. The first Alpha was released on July 28, 2008. It was planned to include new interface features such as tab previews, tag auto-completion, HTML 5 tag support, and CSS text shadows. The first browser they recommended was Mozilla Firefox, followed by Google Chrome.Įven before the release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17, 2008, Firefox 3.1 was in development under the codename "Shiretoko". 3 spots in popularity according to StatCounter and Net Applications, respectively.ĭue to the January 2010, well-publicized vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the German, French, and Australian governments had publicly issued warnings to Internet Explorer users to use alternative browsers, at least until a fix for the security hole was made. Both milestones involved passing Internet Explorer 7, which previously held the No. Between mid-December 2009 and February 2010, Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser (when counting individual browser versions) according to StatCounter, and as of February 2010 was one of the top 3 browser versions according to Net Applications. From January 2010 it began to decline as users migrated to Firefox 3.6. It is the last major version to support X BitMap images.Įstimates of Firefox 3.5's global market share in February 2010 were around 15–20% and rose rapidly in July 2009 as users migrated from Firefox 3.0. It was codenamed Shiretoko during development, and was initially numbered Firefox 3.1 before Mozilla developers decided to change the version to 3.5, to reflect the inclusion of a significantly greater scope of changes than were originally planned.

It includes private browsing, has tear-off tabs, and uses the Gecko 1.9.1 engine. Version 3.5 was touted as being twice as fast as 3.0 (due its TraceMonkey JavaScript engine and rendering improvements).

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is a version of the Firefox web browser released in June 2009, adding a variety of new features to Firefox. The results of the Acid3 test on Firefox 3.5
