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Mozilla Pitches Firefox 3.1 Alpha For July Release

Posted by kdawson on from the fast-track dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just a week after Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.0, the open-source developer has proposed ship dates for the next version that, if approved, would produce an alpha release next month and a final no later than early 2009. According to a draft schedule discussed at a recent meeting, Mozilla wants to have the first Firefox 3.1 developer preview ready by July, then move to a beta by August. The schedule slates final code delivery in the last quarter of this year or the first quarter of 2009. A month ago, when Mozilla first started discussing Firefox 3.1 internally, Mike Schroepfer, the company's vice president of engineering, said the upgrade's target ship date was the end of 2008. If Mozilla holds to that plan, Firefox 3.1 would be its first fast-track update. Firefox 3.0, for instance, launched approximately 20 months after its predecessor, Firefox 2.0."

6 of 257 comments (clear)

  1. Cake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    At this rate, Microsoft better start working on the next cake!

  2. Awesome! Maybe they'll ditch the Awesome Bar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Awesome! Maybe they'll ditch the Awesome Bar

    I mean really, we can wish can't we?

  3. 2ND!!!!!IIII111111 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    53c0nd p057 5145hd00dz!!!!!!!!!!iiiii111111111111122

  4. Re:Firefox 3.0 is crash happy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    obviously something wrong with you machine
    reinstall you OS

  5. Re:Can't blame them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Don't you know?
    The cake is a lie!

  6. Yes, faster, but the CPU hogging bug is there. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's faster, yes. But it still has the CPU hogging bug. Eventually, that makes everything slower.