Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is available

Today Firefox in version 3.5 has been released. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. You can choose to get a localised version in more than 70 languages.

Firefox 3.5 has a huge number of additions and improvements for both users and web developers alike, including: robust new user privacy features; support for high quality open video and audio; a new, high performance JavaScript engine (and a host of other performance and speed improvements); downloadable fonts that will fundamentally change how we view typography and the web; powerful new developer features such as location aware browsing, canvas features, worker threads, native JSON, and media queries; and so much more. Firefox 3.5 is essentially an upgrade to the Web itself.

Source: Firefox 3.5 now available

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Google Chrome available for Linux and Mac OS X

Early builds of Chrome for Mac and Linux are available on Googles Chromium blog.

The blog post says the releases are only aimed at developers because they are incomplete, unpredictable and the software might crash.

Most of the features known for the Windows build are available which the exception of flash video, privacy settings and printing facilities. Google has promised that a beta release will be available in the foreseeable future.

There is also a version of the iron browser available which has no unique id and is not sending requests to Google search for faster search results.

Upgrade to Opera 9.64

A minor upgrade of the Opera browser for the desktop got released this week which addresses several security issues and few minor improvements. If you are an user of Opera you should consider updating your release to Opera 9.64.

Starting with this release, Opera on Windows supports the security measures Data Execution Prevention (DEP) (available in Windows XP SP2 and newer) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) (available in Vista and newer). These security measures are a kind of second line of defence once an application runs into a serious fault, which would normally cause it to crash sooner or later.

Quote: Opera Watch in Opera 9.64 update

Screenshots of Google Chrome on Mac OS X

Developer Mike Pinkerton is showing two screenshots of Google Chrome on Mac OS X which he is working on in his blog.

This week, everything came together and we can now load web pages in the renderer processes and display them in tabs. Here’s a screenshot of the very first time I ran Mac Chromium and loaded a webpage.

Avi just came through with the “sad tab” page when a tab crashes.

Camino 2.0 Beta 1 as first preview of Camino 2 available

Camino 2.0 Beta 1 is a preview release of what will become Camino 2. The following major features have been added to Camino 2.0 Beta 1 and will be in Camino 2 when it is released.

• Tab Dragging: Tabs can be rearranged by dragging and dropping.
• Tab Overview: There is now an optional toolbar icon for opening and closing Tab Overview.
• Blocking Flash Animations: A new exceptions list allows disabling “Block Flash animations” on a per-site basis.
• Gecko 1.9: Camino 2.0 Beta 1 includes changes that improve stability on Mac OS X 10.4.
• Downloading: On Mac OS X 10.5, the downloads folder in the Dock will bounce when a download finishes.

See preview.caminobrowser.org for details.