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Firefox 3.5 RC1 on Track for Early June Release
Webmonkey —
The first release candidate of Firefox 3.5 is on track to arrive the first week of June. In a note to the Firefox developer’s mailing list, Mike Beltzner, Firefox product lead, says Mozilla plans to freeze the code for RC1 next week and hopes to have the release candidate out to testers by the first week of June.
Firefox 3.5 originally planned as a minor update (and was to be called 3.1) to arrive in December 2008. However, numerous delays, many of them coming from the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine and a significantly larger scope of new features prompted Mozilla to push back the release date and bump the version number to better reflect the significance of the upgrade.
Among the new ...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Coming in Early June [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
It's been a long wait through many beta versions for the final versions of Firefox 3.5 to show up. Today, Mozilla Director Mike Beltzner has a post up confirming that "we're setting an aggressive code freeze target of next Wednesday, May 20th for Firefox 3.5 RC." He adds that the official Release Candidate for the browser will arrive in the first week of June.
Beltzner's post says that Mozilla is working on 52 remaining code blockers and 12 non-code blockers, with "great progress" being made. "The finish line is very much in sight!" he writes.
I've been using all of the beta versions of Firefox 3.5 (previously named Firefox 3.1), including the current Beta 4, and it's a step ahead in many ways ...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Coming in Early June
OStatic blogs —
It's been a long wait through many beta versions for the final versions of Firefox 3.5 to show up. Today, Mozilla Director Mike Beltzner has a post up confirming that "we're setting an aggressive code freeze target of next Wednesday, May 20th for Firefox 3.5 RC." He adds that the official Release Candidate for the browser will arrive in the first week of June.
Beltzner's post says that Mozilla is working on 52 remaining code blockers and 12 non-code blockers, with "great progress" being made. "The finish line is very much in sight!" he writes.
I've been using all of the beta versions of Firefox 3.5 (previously named Firefox 3.1), including the current Beta 4, and ...
Firefox 3.5 RC due early June, Fennec Alpha 1 available now for Windows Mobile
TechSpot —
The next major release of Firefox is inching closer to reality. After a lengthy beta period, Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox development at Mozilla has announced that the company is setting an aggressive code freeze target for next Wednesday and hopes to have the release candidate version of the browser out to testers by the first week of June if they arent hit by any show-stopping bugs between now and then. He added that the Firefox team was down to 52 code blockers and 12 non-code blockers, and said progress had been great. Among the new features in Firefox 3.5 ...
