Firefox 3.5, RC1, Slated for Friday--Many New Features
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Mozilla's much awaited Release Candidate of the Firefox 3.5 browser has been through several delays, but, as Webware reports, Firefox director Mike Beltzner says it will arrive this Friday. Beltzner also says the final release of Firefox 3.5 will come out before the end of the month. If you haven't been using the beta versions of the the browser, it's much faster, and has more than 5,000 new features. Mozilla is also pointing out some articles and video demos that show off the new features.Â
 The Firefox Hacks team has been posting articles and video demos of Firefox 3.5, and you can find them here. The posts include:
Content-aware image resizing
Geolocation in Firefox 3.5
Add some ambiance to your videos
Stylish text with text-shadow
Beautiful fonts with @font-face
What does Tracemonkey feel like?
Geolocation with open street maps.
Several of the posts are worth looking into. If you've been waiting for the Release Candidate of this major upgrade to Firefox, you should see it in just a couple of days.
