Firefox wants their own web browser on the App Store following Opera’s recent (approved) success: Opera Mini.
The Mozilla App, dubbed “Firefox Home”, is set to be a weird, almost incomplete browser that is meant to sync your tabs, bookmarks, and history between your iDevice and your computer. It is expected to browse the rest of the web however. It has yet to be approved as of writing. VIDEO after the break:
Mozilla has released their long awaited update to their popular and free web browser with Firefox 3.5
“Originally envisioned as a quick follow-up to 2008’s release of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla ended up packing in quite a few extra features into its flagship browser and spent months making sure that Firefox 3.5 was the fastest, most powerful Firefox yet.
Firefox 3.5 brings with it entirely new and much faster rendering engines for both static web pages and the JavaScript code that powers today’s complex web-based applications. There are new privacy features, new capabilities for playing video and audio files and improved search tools. There are also a handful of other new features that should prove useful for both Firefox devotees and newcomers alike.”
The forth Firefox 3.5 beta is now available here. Some of the notable changes and features include: faster TraceMonkey engine for running Web sites’ JavaScript programs; built-in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) technology for exchanging data between servers and browsers; support for tags to describe audio and video content the way images have been available for years; the private browsing mode for leaving no traces on your computer while surfing; support for technology to let permitted applications know the user’s location; and support for the Web workers standard for letting a browser perform processing in the background without holding back a Web application’s user interface.
[via CNET]
Although Firefox 3.5 is yet to be released, Mozilla has already started planning the next version, which has tentatively been designated 3.6, with the codename Namoroka. Firefox 3.6 is loosely scheduled for release in 2010. This new version mainly features on security, customization, and they are also trying to make the browser lightweight in a competitive market full of “lightweight” browsers. (What’s happening to desktop applications?)You can see the full roadmap here.
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