For those who havnt noticed – Firefox 3.5 has been Released

It can be downloaded at the normal location – www.getfirefox.com. On the surface it looks visually pretty much the same, but has some nice features, and a couple of core add-ons  that are not compatible with 3.5. For the new stuff:

  • Private browsing mode
  • Faster JavaScript execution
  • Can drag tabs into new windows
  • “Forget this site” as a finer tuned scalpel for removing remnants of specific sites.
  • Improved offline browsing
  • New features that we need to wait for web sites to catch up on:

So the good news is that WordPress 2.8 works without a hitch (at least so far :-) ). Google Gears however is currently disabled as it is not compatible. The interesting part is that HTML 5 supports local storage and so is somewhat competitive to Gears, so it will be interesting to see what Google does to Gears when it runs inside a HTML5 browser. I’m hoping I dont have to wait for Gears for too long :-)

For me I’ve not encountered any problems. So to sum up – I dont see anything particularly broken about this release. Which is always nice and reassuring when a release comes out and you dont need to back it out 1 hour after installing it!

Gareth

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