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For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla said that it will not be releasing Firefox 4 RC, or the final version, before early 2011. Apparently, the bugfixes in the current beta take up much more time than anticipated. Mozilla is working on the feature freeze release Beta 7, which has 14 bugs left. The beta 7 is about six weeks behind schedule and will be released 'when it is ready,' according to Mozilla. It seems as if the original schedule, which estimated that Firefox 4 RC would be released in the second half of October was a bit too optimistic. Microsoft, by the way, released a new IE9 platform preview (PP6) at PDC 20910 today."
And by that time Chrome will be at version 12 or 13
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So... Are you saying chrome is FireFox 4.0, or that chrome allows for time travel?
I use IE6 exclusively and have for years. Nobody needs pesky add-ons, ad-blocking and tabbed browser functionality.
I'm one of the 4.5% of the users out there who STILL use it and say sorry, but IE6 is browser for me!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
a couple of thousand of us have been watching you surf since one of the many bored hackers decided to install the streaming remote desktop on your pc about 5 months ago just for fun. how do you get any work done with all those pop ups?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Yeah, you're so mainstream.
Do they run Flash?
Be bold: release the final version before the release candidate. You can release the final version on schedule in 2010, and then slip the RC to 2011. That's the kind of innovative software development methodology we should expect from Mozilla.
So... Are you saying chrome is FireFox 4.0, or that chrome allows for time travel?
Um, let me check my Charlie Chaplin DVD collection and I'll get right back to you on the time travel bit ;-)
How else will Firefox address more than 4GB of memory? What, your Firefox doesn't use that much memory?
You ran XP with 512K of RAM? I assume there was no GUI and you had no drivers installed and you could only enter text by manually flipping bits through the serial port. :)
Check out my world simulator thingy.
You forgot to call them "whipper snappers" and yell at them about the whole lawn situation.
Ooops. I see what I did there. I mean 512 M of RAM.
Just you wait! Someday you too will be in your senile 40s, start thinking that Synthesized/Electronic Disco is the latest style of music, and that computers still use kilobytes
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
That's literally two months away!! OMG how could a software release schedule ever be allowed to slip by two months? What will the retailers do now that it won't be on shelves in time for Christmas?!
I just hope it's not too far into January. Especially not Jan 31. The flying car from the magazine ad I ordered back in 1972 was scheduled for delivery on that day.
-1 silly.