A poche ore di distanza dal rilascio di Firefox 3.5 RC1 Mozilla ha reso disponibile una seconda Release Candidate del suo browser scaricabile in numerose lingue attraverso il prorpio sito ftp. Firefox 3.5 RC2 non apporta significative novità ma corregge qualche residuo bug della versione precedente.

In tempi di rilascio serrati sembrano suggerire l'intenzione di Mozilla di rispettare gli impegni precedenti e rilasciare la versione finale entro fine mese. Di seguito riportiamo l'elenco delle novità previste in Firefox 3.5:

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:

* This release candidate is now available in more than 70 languages - get your local version.
* Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
* Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
* The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
* Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
* Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
* Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 .

Fonte: mozilla.com