Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday

unkgoon writes "The Mozilla Developer News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you're invited to the party! From the website: 'After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we're proud to announce that we're ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.'" Update: 06/12 17:44 GMT by T : Dan100 was among several readers to write with news that, rather than just being announced, "Opera 9.5 has been released today after nearly two years of development. New features include increased speed (particularly in the Javascript engine), Opera Link (browser synchronisation), and a 'sharp' new theme." Dan100 also links to a full changelog from 9.27.

Comments

Re:Nothing about breaking records?

[ShieldW0lf]

The awful bar in FF3 a perfect example of a feature that should be an extension, but isn't and is forced on everyone. I don't want my hand holding when it comes to using core features of a browser, and so I'm going to say no to FF3.

Totally agree. I have to say, for the longest time my pages always looked better in Firefox than in IE, because Firefox was the web developers browser of choice, so they were developed for Firefox, then tested for IE after they were functionally complete. That's going to stop now that the location bar has been transformed into some unholy thing you would expect AOL to conceive. Time to start looking for alternatives...

Re:Opera 9.5 released today

[ShieldW0lf]

When you release something as freeware, you can get people hooked on it, then cripple it and start charging for the non-crippled version. Pretty straightforward.