Any news on firefox 3?


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I'm relativley new to the whole firefox thing, i have tried it a few times in the past but have recently used it 100% of the time. I have been reading about it on the mozilla development wiki but dont fully understand whats going on. Firefox 3 was supposed to hit beta but it didnt because it had to many bugs atm? Is that correct?

If so then do they have even a rough idea of when they hope to have Firefox 3 in beta or (even better) final?

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If so then do they have even a rough idea of when they hope to have Firefox 3 in beta or (even better) final?
As far as I know, the answer is always "it will be when it will be".

The MoFo has a pretty deep history of pushing back their timetable. I actually don't think they've ever released anything on time.

It's pretty much a joke, actually.

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Firefox is primarily quality driven and secondarily feature driven, with schedules sketched in around the introduction, testing and acceptance of such features. So far we have had 8 alpha releases ("developer previews") of Firefox 3 (codename Gran Paradisio). Milestone 9 is currently going to be the Beta 1 release, and is currently in the End-Game stage of final patches landing in preparation for compilation, QA and subsequent release.

Because firefox is open-source and Mozilla's discussions with respect to planning a Firefox release are readily available to anyone who can read the wiki'd status notes of the meetings, it leads to foolish people like shakey_snake posting silly comments about Mozilla's inability to hit arbitrary dates. If they held these meeting in secret and never told anyone target dates until they were certain of a release, then of course they'd hit every date they announced.

But because Mozilla are so transparent with how the Firefox project is managed, anyone is able to read about all the things that go right (and wrong!) and then whine that some target date was missed.

But to answer your question, Firefox 3 Beta 1 is on its way, and I would expect it to probably be released in a couple of weeks. I guesstimate the final release to be in Q1 of 2008.

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As Cryton mentioned, Firefox 3.0 is currently being tested. If you want a sneak peak, you can try alpha 8 or a nightly build, but keep in mind that alpha-quality software is meant for testing purposes, which means you fill notice some bugs (which is the whole point of alpha/beta testing).

You can learn more Firefox 3.0's progress at the MozillaWiki.

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Firefox is primarily quality driven and secondarily feature driven, with schedules sketched in around the introduction, testing and acceptance of such features. So far we have had 8 alpha releases ("developer previews") of Firefox 3 (codename Gran Paradisio). Milestone 9 is currently going to be the Beta 1 release, and is currently in the End-Game stage of final patches landing in preparation for compilation, QA and subsequent release.

Because firefox is open-source and Mozilla's discussions with respect to planning a Firefox release are readily available to anyone who can read the wiki'd status notes of the meetings, it leads to foolish people like shakey_snake posting silly comments about Mozilla's inability to hit arbitrary dates. If they held these meeting in secret and never told anyone target dates until they were certain of a release, then of course they'd hit every date they announced.

But because Mozilla are so transparent with how the Firefox project is managed, anyone is able to read about all the things that go right (and wrong!) and then whine that some target date was missed.

But to answer your question, Firefox 3 Beta 1 is on its way, and I would expect it to probably be released in a couple of weeks. I guesstimate the final release to be in Q1 of 2008.

No need for name calling, dude. I think you're misinterpreting my post and intent. We really said the same thing, only you took a little longer.

I have a lot of respect for the mozilla project, and Firefox in particular (:hug: ), but that doesn't mean that setting and the subsequent missing of dates hasn't become something of an inside joke. :ninja:

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Version detection for Windows - Vista vs XP since we may want to have a different theme for each. Installation configuration piece

I'm especially interested in that feature because Firefox? 2> really looks "out-of-place" in Vista.

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No need for name calling, dude. I think you're misinterpreting my post and intent. We really said the same thing, only you took a little longer.

I have a lot of respect for the mozilla project, and Firefox in particular ( :hug: ), but that doesn't mean that setting and the subsequent missing of dates hasn't become something of an inside joke. :ninja:

Actually to me it seems like you're putting Mozilla down, while Cryton is simply explaining.

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WTF?

OK, well I'm not.

So, sorry about the unclear post or whatever.

Apologies if I misinterpreted what you said... it wouldn't be the first time I made such a mistake :) So let's not get into a pointless war of words or anything silly, and I will drink my next whisky to your good name!

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