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Archive for May 2008
“It’ll be ready when it’s ready.”
That’s the basic response from Mozilla.
Mozilla decided to release a second release candidate for Firefox 3.0 at a meeting on Tuesday, in response to the discovery of 10 performance and stability bugs. The alternative would have been to patch these potential “showstoppers” after the browser shipped. But another round of testing is the safer option - not least from the standpoint of public relations. This will probably set back the official launch and Firfox download options by five days or so.
Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period.
Continue Reading “Firefox and Mozilla trying for the Guinness Book of World Records?” »
Although Mozilla Corp. hasn’t even released the final version of Firefox 3.0, its developers are already hammering out plans for the next edition, which may come as soon as late 2008 and subsequently available on Firfox Download, according to posts written by company executives.
“There were a number of features that we held back from Firfox 3 because they weren’t quite ready, but they were nearly complete,” said Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla.
Continue Reading “Firfox 3.1 to be released later this year” »
Mozilla Corp. announced that it has stopped making changes to the first release candidate of Firefox 3.0 and is working to get that build to users by the end of the month.
Mozilla developers quashed several bugs starting Friday morning to make the Saturday “code freeze” deadline, according to the Mozilla.dev.planning forum. Among the fixed flaws was a regression bug that made Firfox 3.0 incorrectly convert characters when loading URLs.
Google will also update their Firfox download at that time, with bundled search so you can search for anything as diverse as songwriting tips to hydraulic presses from the upper right corner of the browser without having to add on the bulky Google Toolbar.