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Mozilla released its fifth beta version of Firefox 3 for Windows and the Mac today, bringing a handful of improvements in ease of use to the open-source Web browser.

This version includes 750 changes from the previous beta, focusing on enhanced stability, Web site compatibility, and platform and user-interface improvements.

Here are some of the new features and changes in Firefox 3:

1. Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
2. Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.
3. Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatabilty and stability.
4. Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.

Download it here. Release Notes is here.

Source: CNet News, Mozilla