“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.

Read More: Firefox 3 Timeline (The Register)