While I love Safari 4, Firefox is certainly a great browser and a significant upgrade is available today.

Features include:

• New rendering engine for faster page loads
• New Javascript rendering engine – for blazing fast Javascript performance.
• HTML 5 support
• Geo-awareness
• Improved Search
• Improved Privacy Controls
• Several other features

Just to hit on a few of these, the new rendering engines will bring much faster page loads and apps that use a lot of javascript, like MobileMe, Google Docs or GMail, will see huge performance increases. HTML 5 support will bring native offline data storage, similar to GoogleGears, allowing web applications to work in “offline mode”, as well as native support for video and audio so websites can embed video/audio files and they will play without a plugin. Geo-awareness means websites can ask the browser for your location and get an accurate reading, which will actually be a HUGE deal. And of course everyone loves new search features and privacy controls.

Just launch Firefox to get the update, or head to getfirefox.com for a disk image when it’s released in a few hours.

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