Firefox 3.5 will get first bug fix later this month

Firefox 3.5 is out now you can easily download it. On 30th June we just reviewed Firefox 3.5.

Mozilla will patch the  newly released Firefox 3.5 in the next few weeks to sort out some bugs that were not fixed in the final version of the browser.

Mozilla said in notes published after a weekly status meeting:

[The] goal of this release should be a quick turnaround that fixes topcrashes and bugs we almost held ship for,

The only major security-related change in version 3.5 is private browsing, a special mode in which, according to Firefox:

it won’t keep any browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files. However, files you download and bookmarks you make will be kept.

All the other major browsers have similar modes. Firefox 3.5 has Private Browsing, Internet Explorer 8 comes up the InPrivate mode, Chrome 2 with Incognito, and Safari 4’s Private Browsing. It is very very clear that Firefox’s Private Browsing is less convenient to use than the privacy modes in the other browsers. You can easily invoke private browsing from the Tools menu or with Ctrl-Shift-P.