Firefox 3.5

Firefox, a rival to Microsoft's market domination, will release version 3.5 later this month.

Its features will include geolocation - information targeted to your location, in-built video players, and private browsing. It comes after nightly testing by 10,000 volunteers.

Nice, i've been meaning to make the jump to the beta/rc's but now i don't have to.

geolocation, what on earth is that and should I be worried?

It determines what country you are in based on your IP address.. Google does it all the time..

If you don't like the concept you can disable the feature ............. so they say

http://en-gb.www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/geolocation/

I went though a phase of using Firefox, then I went to Chrome and now I'm really liking Safari 4, even though I originally hated it. I find it the quickest browser, though I do have a soft spot for IE8 too.

I imagine the pedos will be switching it off immediately

In reply to a post by Spasch:

It determines what country you are in based on your IP address.. Google does it all the time..

That is if you use Google and their products, I tend to stay away from Google these days.

I know where I am so I don't need a browser to tell me

I can see it being useful on a laptop or any other portable web browsing device, but nto too useful on a desktop.

In reply to a post by Apprentice:

If you don't like the concept you can disable the feature ............. so they say

http://en-gb.www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/geolocation/

I am glad you said so they say. I will stay with firefox 3 for a while longer I think. Still prefer firefox 2, but it will not work on windows 7

In reply to a post by napster:

I went though a phase of using Firefox, then I went to Chrome and now I'm really liking Safari 4, even though I originally hated it. I find it the quickest browser, though I do have a soft spot for IE8 too.

I have been using Firefox for years now, and before it was firefox I used Netscape. I only used IE if I had to, now that 99% or more of sites use Firefox with no problem I just stay with Firefox, in fact IE is not a option on my computer any more as I got rid of it, well I got rid of it as much as what Microsoft will allow you too.

I have used IE8 just to have a look, but it don't do what I want from it and the stuff it have got I don't want.

Opera is ok, but I don't like the way it handles cookies.

Chrome is ok, but a bit basic and it is Google, so trusting it not to send all my browsing to google is hard.

Safari is great on the Mac, it is good on the P.C, but like Chrome it is to basic.

Firefox allows me to add things to it, some I can't be without now, I know Firefox got it's faults, like being slow to start up, but I think it is the best browser out there at the moment.