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.

Also in late March, Schroepfer said that the final version of Firefox would likely ship in June. Today, he said that Mozilla is still on track for a final release by the end of next month.

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