Firefox 3.5 final version: 3.5 million downloads

According Firefox Downloads Worldwide, the final version of Firefox 3.5 meter explodes.

Flying start for Firefox 3.5. A symbolic barrier has been passed: the new final version of the browser, available since yesterday mid-afternoon, just surpass the 3.5 million downloads, according to the counter Worldwide Firefox Downloads of Mozilla Foundation at a score made on Wednesday July 1 at 11:00 (French time).

It identifies a million "downloads" from the territory of the United States. The French take the time to adopt it (more than 167,000 downloads recorded since the provision).

Firefox 3.5 includes several improvements in JavaScript performance ("much higher"). Complex Web sites, the Mozilla Foundation ensures that the latest version of its browser is "more than two times faster than Firefox 3" and "more than ten times faster than Firefox 2."

Features were added as the new eect private browsing mode ("Private Browsing") similar to Google Chrome, the native support for audio and video formats and open navigation with geo-location ("Location Aware Browsing").

The Foundation lists 300 million active users of Firefox in the world.