Mozilla announced the release of the Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate which is now available for download. The RC2 has many new changes over the previous RC1 which was recently released. Of the new features is improved tools for controlling data through the Private Browsing Mode, and HTML5 support, and better performance with the new JavaScript engine.Speaking of performance, Firefox 3.5 has faster page rendering as well thanks to "speculative parsing". This means when the parser would normally block on a Javascript code, it keeps going instead. It doesn't create a DOM based on the things it parses, but looks for the SCRIPT and LINK REL codes and starts those resources loading in parallel with what its blocked on. Just take our word on it, it makes things load faster.
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