The latest version of Firefox has some added features that will appear in the soon to be released Firefox 3.5

Amongst those is the Private Browsing Mode, already popular amongst Chrome and IE users. Private Browsing Mode disables all history being recorded and cookies being saved. Essentially keeping your browsing safe from prying eyes, it has always been heralded as a way to surf internet porn – and even sometimes the developers hint that this was the reason for it being included in the feature set.

There’s also another useful feature built into the latest version. The ability to “tear off” a tab to create that tab’s own window is something which again is (arguably) borrowed from Chrome.

Other features to be included are how Firefox can handle embedded video. Rather than Firefox needing an external plugin, such as Adobe’s Flash, or Apple’s Quicktime, the browser can now render the video itself. This needs to be supported by the site itself however. You can also restrict the results from the address bar – so rather than displaying everything from your history, bookmarks or tagged pages, you can use special characters to display, for instance, just your history when typing.

All in all, Beta 4 is an improvement over the last beta, and we’re being told that the release of Firefox 3.5 is not very far away at all. Download the latest Beta here.

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