The noticeable improvement for the new verision in speed, the official Mozilla web site states that "Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2." Other features include Private Browsing, HTML5 support etc.

If you are using the old version or CA of 3.5, it is time to upgrade now!

Download: Firefox 3.5 final for Windows, Linux and Mac

Recommend reading:

• Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features
• Make your extensions work with (Firefox 3.5)
• Disable location-aware browsing and tab tearing

There are up to 43 languages supported for translation including:

(Dictionary + Translation) Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,
Hindi, Italian, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Thai

(Translation only) Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

The result is from Google Dictionary, Translate, Suggest and Wikipedia.

Download: Dictionary .Net 1.6

Download: Firefox 3.5 RC3 win32

Download: Firefox 3.5 RC3 linux-i686

Download: Firefox 3.5 RC3 mac

What’s New in Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate)

Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:

• This release candidate is now available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
• Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
• Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

• Multi accounts management capability!
• Counter for unread emails
• Read email headers
• Manage emails (Delete, Mark As Done etc)
• UTF-8 supported

Of course, there is NO spyware or SPAM.

Download: Gmail Notifier 1.0.0.20
Requirements: Windows XP and 512 MB, or above

The best part that makes VLC stand out is that the program can be used not only as a media player, but also a converter or a stream server.

You can download VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC4 now, or wait until the final version comes out (soon).

Download: VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC4 (Windows/Linux/Mac)

Download: FileZilla 3.2.5

While normal user could still stay with the latest stable version of Firefox 3.0.11, since the RC version is intended for developers and members of the testing community.

The latest release 1.8.3 for Windows can be downloaded here: http://download.utorrent.com/1.8.3/utorrent.exe

A lot of bugs have been fixed for this release, and "uTP support has been much improved to better handle mixed-mode uTP and TCP. It is not enabled by default for outgoing connections." according to the official release announce.

Product analyst Lawrence Eng says, "With Opera Unite, everyday non-technical users can serve and share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive applications."

A media application has come with Opera Unite as a demostration. Using this Jukebox tool, all "united" friends will select their favorite songs, and combine together to form a virture online radio.

And Lawrence Eng believes that "That’s just the tiniest tip of the iceberg—the potential for what can be done is much larger. The key to Opera Unite is that it enables a whole new class of social software on the Web, applications that benefit from two or more people being online at the same time. And, with Opera Unite, these people can all connect directly without needing middlemen who control third-party servers."

Couldn’t wait? Download your install pack here:

Opera Unite builds for Mac: Standard dmg installer | Intel installer

Opera Unite builds for Linux/Unix: Unix build | Ubuntu 32-bit | Ubuntu 64-bit

Opera Unite builds for Windows: Classic installer | Standard MSI installer

You may also check this articles to get started with Opera Unite: An introduction to Opera Unite. If you are interested in contributing to Opera community, check this Opera Unite developer’s primer.

Here is one the screenshot provided on Opera site, click to enlarge:

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