Firefox 3.5 release candidate goes live

Users of Firefox 3.5 beta can now get to upgrade to the release candidate for Firefox 3.5.

Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the noticeable changes to the release candidate from beta 4 and the b99 pre-release version are not readily apparent. Generally, users can expect the release candidate to be more stable than its beta predecessors.

The upgrades to Firefox 3.5 have been well-documented by now. Private browsing, geolocation, faster performance than Firefox 3 for both loading pages and running JavaScript, local storage for better offline support, and native video for Ogg/Vorbis.

More improvements include support for HTML5 tags such as < audio > and < video >, native JSON support, support for web workers so browser-based apps can run in the background, support for CSS and SVG standards, the ability to erase browsing traces by site or by time, personas for easier theme management, and downloadable fonts. The release candidate is also available in more than 70 language localisations.

Because of the 800,000 or so testers that Mozilla says have been using the beta versions, Firefox director Mike Beltzner said he expects this to be the sole release candidate before version 3.5 goes public at the end of June.

Original article: Mozilla pushes Firefox 3.5 RC to beta testers from CNET News.com