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Mozilla To Release Firefox 4 Next Month

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the battle-still-waging dept.

Neil writes "Damon Sicore, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, has announced that the company is almost ready to ship Firefox 4. On its mailing list, Mozilla has revealed it has around 160 hard blockers to fix, before proceeding to Release Candidate stage. Both the RC and the final version would arrive in February, according to Sicore. Mozilla was originally planning on having Firefox 4 out by the end of last year, but it had to delay the release till 2011. Last month, Firefox 4 Beta 8 was released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux 32-bit/64-bit, with support for 57 languages. Mozilla's roadmap says it still wants to release a Beta 9, a Beta 10, and at least one Release Candidate build before the final version."

3 of 266 comments (clear)

  1. Huh? Firefox 4? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought Firefox 5 was released last month.

  2. Re:I sure hope... by TrisexualPuppy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FF2 was quite the sleek browser, but once they got a good market share and user appreciation, it became bloatware. Perhaps this is a chance to step back to the old "model?"

    Perhaps you didn't notice all the bloat that snuck in with the 1.x to 2 transition. My expectations were so thoroughly killed, the 2 to 3 change was barley even a bump in the road.

    My balls. Lick them.

  3. MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL by TrisexualPuppy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come on. You know you want to. That guy known as TrisexualPuppy ain't no troll. Even I say so.

    --TSP