Next firefox version bumped to 3.5

The next release of Firefox, code named Shiretoko and currently in
development, will be labeled 3.5 instead of 3.1 as it had been
originally planned.

According to today's Firefox meeting notes, the version bump aims to
reflect more accurately the many changes introduced since the release
of Firefox 3.0, the latest major release, last summer. These includes
several changes to tabbed browsing, significant improvements to web
standards compatibility, a deeply enhanced JavaScript engines, and
several new privacy related including an all new private mode that
allows users to clear all their browsing activities at the end of a
session.

The next beta, Beta 3, will still be labeled as 3.1 while all the
necessary changes are made on Mozilla's several development tools.

The code for Beta 3 is now frozen and builds are already being
produced. Final release is expected for next week following QA
procedures.

It also seems Beta 3 will not be the final beta as it was originally
thought, but a fourth beta should follow in the near future with a
chance of including some more new besides fixing the about 100 blocker
bugs currently identified.