Firefox 3 Release Date?

[xWhiplash]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anybody know the official release of Firefox 3?

[X'tyfe]

i heard june or july

this summer anyways :)

[1Frothy]

The first and most important thing to state is that we, as a project, are quality driven, not date driven. We use dates to set targets for milestones, and we strive to put out the best milestones possible, but due to the changing nature of the web, we always judge each milestone against our basic criteria of quality, performance and usability. The other factor how we rely on community use and testing of our betas to help us judge their quality. Without our close-to-million strong beta audience, we couldn?t get the usage and testing data required to provide us with the confidence to move into a shippable product.

In the context of adding a fourth beta, the decision was between holding beta 3 for some new work being done on performance, usability, and memory use, versus shipping the beta sooner to get testing on the improvements (based on community feedback) from the past month and a half. We decided that the best thing for our beta audience would be to release beta 3 and add another milestone as opposed to holding for the late-braking improvement opportunities. Those will be the basis for our fourth beta.

We all want to ship the best browser possible on the fastest timescale, and we meet weekly to evaluate our current product against the potential improvements we could continue to make. When our quality, usability and performance are solid enough to be called Firefox 3 (as judged by everyone involved in making it) we?ll ship it.

-Mike Beltzner