Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta available for download

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The Firefox team has posted the first Firefox beta to carry the 3.5 version number, and it’s a pretty hefty update. What’s included? For starter’s there is improved private browsing, and lightning-fast TraceMonkey javascript engine.
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 10 months.
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 beta is now available in 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 and elements,
• Downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, javascript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

System Requirements:

• Windows : Operating Systems
  Windows 2000
  Windows XP
  Windows Server 2003
  Windows Vista
  Minimum Hardware
  Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
  64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  52 MB hard drive space
• Mac : Operating Systems
  Mac OS X 10.4 and later
  Minimum Hardware
  Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
  128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
  200 MB hard drive space
• Linux : Software RequirementsPlease note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
  Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:
  GTK+ 2.10 or higher
  GLib 2.12 or higher
  Pango 1.14 or higher
  X.Org 1.0 or higher
  For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:
  NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
  DBus 1.0 or higher
  HAL 0.5.8 or higher
  GNOME 2.16 or higher