Short answer: yes.
Long answer: very soon, but not yet – especially if you have plugins you use regularly.
With a complete revamping of its Javascript engine (called TraceMonkey!), and numerous tweaks, it’s considered to be ten times faster than FF2 – and I consider that to be plenty fast.
Other user experiences include better image display for richer viewing, direct video viewing, and the option to save the video to your computer.
Possibly the most ‘hushed whisper’ aspect of FF3.5 is the privacy mode – blocking sites from being cached or recorded in your History, clearing History, or even doing a whole browser session without leaving a trace. And while everyone goes ‘nudge, nudge, wink wink’ and immediately thinks porn, there’ s a very real application to this – testing websites.
Revisiting the same website over and over for testing caches files, cookies, and sets the History – all of which needs to be cleared each time if you want to do a fresh visit to a sire. This could be a real boon for testing.
Of course, as with all upgrades, there’s issues – and my reason to suggest NOT going for it right now is if you have favorite plugins that are not carried forward (yet). If any of them are deal-breakers, then wait a while.
You can read more about the future of browser technology at FireFox Central.
