{"id":2721,"date":"2009-06-30T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/06\/30\/firefox-3-5-available-today\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:50:00","slug":"firefox-3-5-available-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/06\/30\/firefox-3-5-available-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3.5 Available Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement! Adventure! Really wild things! <strong>Firefox 3.5 is officially released today!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/?from=sfx&amp;uid=640&amp;t=306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"logo-wordmark-version-400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"logo-wordmark-version-400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/logowordmarkversion400.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m quite excited about this new release \u2013 this is, quite frankly, a really big release for Firefox that includes a lot of really cool, neat things, including (but not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for the HTML5 &lt;video&gt; and &lt;audio&gt; tags (including <a href=\"http:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2009\/06\/update-on-open-video-quality\/\">native support for Ogg Theora<\/a> encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio) \u2013 this means Firefox 3.5 can display video and audio natively in the browser, without the need for plugins like Flash or Quicktime. (Sweet!) <\/li>\n<li>Private browsing mode <\/li>\n<li>Much improved JavaScript performance thanks to a new JavaScript engine (which means websites that use JavaScript a lot \u2013 like GMail and other \u201cweb apps\u201d \u2013 will run faster!) <\/li>\n<li>Location-aware browsing (handy for searching for things \u201cnearby\u201d) <\/li>\n<li>Faster rendering of web pages (always nice) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/Using_DOM_workers\">Web worker threads<\/a> (use that fancy dual-core CPU to make your browsing experience <em>faster than ever!<\/em>) <\/li>\n<li>A whole bunch of new support for web technologies like downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, and a whole bunch more <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to see everything that\u2019s new, just check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/3.5\/releasenotes\/\">Firefox 3.5 Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t started using Firefox yet, now\u2019s a great time to switch! Firefox is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/switch.html\">fast, safe, easy-to-use, and totally customizable<\/a> \u2013 and that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg, as there\u2019s a whole bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/switch.html\">other reasons to switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what are you waiting for? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/?from=sfx&amp;uid=640&amp;t=306\">Get Firefox 3.5 right now<\/a> and be part of the future of the web!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement! Adventure! Really wild things! Firefox 3.5 is officially released today! I\u2019m quite excited about this new release \u2013 this is, quite frankly, a really big release for Firefox that includes a lot of really cool, neat things, including (but not limited to): Support for the HTML5 &lt;video&gt; and &lt;audio&gt; tags (including native support for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/06\/30\/firefox-3-5-available-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox 3.5 Available Today!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[203],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology","tag-firefox","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-HT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":314,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/11\/09\/firefox-10-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":2721,"position":0},"title":"Firefox 1.0 Released","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 9, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"If you haven't heard yet, Firefox 1.0 has finally been released. 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