Firefox 3 release date announced: June 17
Mozilla announced Wednesday that it plans to release the final version of Firefox 3 on Tuesday, June 17, less than a week away.
"After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we're proud to announce that we're ready," Mozilla said in a post on its Developer Center blog.
You can help Mozilla meet its goal of breaking the Guinness World Record on June 17th, becoming the most downloaded software in a single day. Over one million people have pledged so far to download the software in the first 24 hours it's available.
In related news, Mozilla also published Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 on Wednesday. There was one fix, and it was for Mac users on 10.5.3 -- a correction for unkillable hangs related to the VerifiedDownload plugin. Glad they got that cleared up!
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Mozilla announced Wednesday that it plans to release the final version of Firefox 3 on Tuesday, June 17, less than a week away. "After...
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June 17 2008 at 11:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat's the deal with firefox crashing so much these days? It used to be soo stable! I hope firefox 3 is the answer!
I'm wondering if its just my work computer, but does TUAW suffer from the jerky page scrolling for anyone else using Windows XP and Firefox (RC2 or RC3)? Yeah yeah, i know im using windows on a mac blog, but i dont have a choice with my company laptop
June 12 2008 at 1:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi know its petty, but for some reason it drives me batty that i can't just single click the website icon in the location bar to highlight all the text, anymore. i am an unsafe rebel and don't care about the security credentials stuff that comes up in its place :P
June 12 2008 at 12:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI thought I was the only one! That "feature" annoys me enough to resort to only using it on windows, when I have to.
June 15 2008 at 7:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs an FYI to all Mac Users of Firefox 3... OS level keyboard shortcuts don't work with FF3 as of RC1 and RC2. See bug 429824 on the mozilla bugzilla for details...
If anyone has an extension that will work around this issue, or let me define my own keyboard shortcuts in FF, I'd love to know about it as I heavily depend on the keyboard shortcuts that I have set up...
This is the only chink in the armor as far as I'm concerned. The betas and RCs have been stable, fast, and have alotta nice features.
Heh..... this is funny. I am running firefox 3RC3 so this just seems kind of shalow
but I can see what all the buzz is about!
Why did it take 34 months to develop?
June 12 2008 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBecause they're not Microsoft, and they want to release a product that isn't a piece of garbage.
Would you prefer to download something that worked, or something that was shoddily put together & rushed through the RCs full of bugs?
This will coincide nicely with Sweden voting yes to the new law that makes the stat bug and listen in on ALL DIGITAL CONVERSATIONS. Bloody Big Brother state this is now...
June 12 2008 at 5:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyKeeping my finders crossed.
I love Firefox.
This is awesome, can't wait. Hopefully they've fixed up the bugs in RC2 though... I'm still using RC1 because I've heard bad things about it.
You've come a long way, Firefox, I've been using it on Windows since before it was even 1.0. Congrats Mozilla!
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