Firefox 3.1 morphs into Firefox 3.5

Mozilla have announced that the forth beta version (due for release 14th April) of the next instalment of popular browser Firefox will skip a few versions from 3.1 to 3.5.

Firefox director Mike Beltzner announced on the developer news blog that due to the inclusion of many new features (TraceMonkey, Private Browsing , etc not to mention the number of bug fixes already added to Firefox 3.1 ment that an increase in version number to reflect the changes was required.

Further updates for us Add-On developers is to be announced in due course via the wiki, and probably the mailing list too.

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