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For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011

Posted by timothy on from the they-wanted-a-prime-number dept.

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."

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  1. Chrome by baresi · · Score: 4, Funny

    And by that time Chrome will be at version 12 or 13

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  2. Re:No need to wait. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... Are you saying chrome is FireFox 4.0, or that chrome allows for time travel?

  3. IE6 Exclusively by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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  4. we know all about it by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  5. Neither the RC nor the final version? by jfengel · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Anybody remember if... by omnichad · · Score: 3, Funny

    How else will Firefox address more than 4GB of memory? What, your Firefox doesn't use that much memory?

  7. Re:When it's done by gorzek · · Score: 3, Funny

    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. :)

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