Mozilla Corp. has released Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), but may be beat in the race to final by Microsoft, which said that Internet Explorer 7 would ship in October.
Firefox 2.0 RC2 went live late Friday, with the update pushed automatically to users of earlier editions of Firefox 2.0, the open-source browser's first major update since 1.5 in November 2005. Others can download RC2 in versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 39 localized editions, including ones for Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Mongolian, Russian, and Slovakian speakers.
However, at least one more release candidate will be issued by Mozilla. "There are a handful of security and stability bugs we'd like to see get in before the final FF2 release. Thus we'll be doing a third release candidate," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's director of engineering, in an entry on the developer's message forum.
But while Mozilla has not set a final release date for Firefox 2.0 -- on this calendar, it was once pegged to late October, but was withdrawn weeks ago -- rival Microsoft said that it will ship IE 7, the first significant upgrade to its browser since 2001, this month.
News source: TechWeb
Firefox 2.0 RC2 went live late Friday, with the update pushed automatically to users of earlier editions of Firefox 2.0, the open-source browser's first major update since 1.5 in November 2005. Others can download RC2 in versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 39 localized editions, including ones for Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Mongolian, Russian, and Slovakian speakers.
However, at least one more release candidate will be issued by Mozilla. "There are a handful of security and stability bugs we'd like to see get in before the final FF2 release. Thus we'll be doing a third release candidate," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's director of engineering, in an entry on the developer's message forum.
But while Mozilla has not set a final release date for Firefox 2.0 -- on this calendar, it was once pegged to late October, but was withdrawn weeks ago -- rival Microsoft said that it will ship IE 7, the first significant upgrade to its browser since 2001, this month.
News source: TechWeb
btw, why does the link to the article say screenshot??
dont worry i dont "hate" either browser i aint one of the hardcore fanboys (as people call it in here) so i aint to biased against any browser... although i do prefer firefox over all other browsers i tried.
Last edited by ThaCrip on 10 Oct 2006 - 12:45
I totally understand. I prefer turnip greens over mustard greens; I've never let the mere fact that I've never eaten mustard greens affect my decision to not like them.
When did it become a race between MS and Mozilla to release their respective products first?
I'd like to try IE 7.
Don't care for Firefox at all on Windows, but on Linux, it's a totally different browser, as far as stable on any machine I've ever used it on. Prefer Opera on Windows, personally.
Anyways, it's good that there will be a Firefox 2.0 RC3. Much better that they deal with whatever issues are left oustanding now, before the final 2.0 release, than otherwise. Using Firefox 2.0 RC2 right now and it's very good, no complaints.
Anyways, it's good that there will be a Firefox 2.0 RC3. Much better that they deal with whatever issues are left oustanding now, before the final 2.0 release, than otherwise. Using Firefox 2.0 RC2 right now and it's very good, no complaints.
Of course, Firefox won't have dozens of bugfixes released for it after Vista launches ... oh no, wait, it will.
I can't believe no one here has came with the Netscape browse wars era.
I think that's the point of this article, remember those days and just think of the possibility of IE7 being dominant (well... staying dominant haha) once again.
The Vista version of IE7 is quite a capable browser. Can't comment on XP's version.
(offtopic: at first I thought how an article like this racked up 668 comments in half a day.
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