Firefox 3.5 was officially released yesterday, and it’s already doing nicely. In fact, as MG Siegler at TechCrunch pointed out, it was being downloaded at a rate of nearly 100 downloads per minute yesterday. You can see how it’s doing for yourself at the Mozilla download tracker. In terms of individual countries, the United States is the only country with more than a million downloads. Germany, Japan, France and the United Kingdom round out the top 5.

Seth Rosenblatt at CNET said the latest Firefox “represents the best Firefox we’ve yet seen from Mozilla.” There are some new features; this is the first Firefox to have the Private Browsing feature, which keeps private information from being stored in the browser’s cache and history. If that’s going too far, there’s also an option to clear your browsing history. In Firefox 3.5, you can specify about how long you’d like to erase the records…