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Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate comes in early June |
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Written by Jon Worrel
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:15 |
Considerably faster than Firefox
3.0.10
Over the
past few months, devs over at Mozilla Corp have been making an aggressive push
to forward the development of Firefox 3.5. Along the way, there have been some
critical problems to say the least, particularly with the last two beta
releases, but Mozilla is now on track to deliver the first release candidate of
this new development milestone early next month.
Mike Beltzner,
the director of Firefox, sent out an
email last Thursday in which he stated that the team will be “setting an
aggressive code freeze target of next Wednesday, May 20 for Firefox 3.5 RC.” In
other words, this “code freeze” means that Mozilla will be halting progress in
development in order to get a working RC build out to testers, similarly to
what Microsoft has done with Windows 7 RC build 7100.
Assuming
Firefox 3.5 RC's code is “frozen” on Wednesday, Beltzner said that the preview
would ship as early as the first week of June. According to Mozilla release
notes dated May 5th, we can also expect to see Firefox 3.0.11 released
on June 2nd or 3rd.
On another
note, over 650,000 users are currently testing Firefox 3.5 beta 4, with all
versions of Firefox owning 22.5 percent of the total web browser market as of
the beginning of the month.
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