Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 again delyaded! :O

[bogas04]

According to Mozilla's release dates' wiki page Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is delayed from 28 October to Late October. Erm , what does late mean to them ? Its already 29 and 2 days are left for October to end, moreover , Beta 1 builds are already code-frozen , this means no new Beta 1 builds will appear.

Whatever Mozilla is doing , i just want them to release it before years' end so as to release 3.7 before Chrome 4's release. If they do so , then Firefox would attain even better hold in the market share , as 3.7 will fix most of the problems of firefox (slow start up revisions , speed improvements , UI change) and would be at better position to compete with Chrome 3/4 . BTW i dont think chrome 4 will be out that soon , as extensions are landed in Chrome 4 and therefore heavy testings are left.

Till then have fun with 3.5.4 :)

[Chasethebase Veteran]

It means that they are hoping to release it this month, but they don't know when.

[thealexweb]

Well the end of October is fast approaching, Mozilla can't keep to a deadline to save its life.

[bogas04]

I remember once the release date of Beta 1 was early September , O God! From early september to late october!!!

When will Beta 2 come , and then RC , i dont think they will be able to release it this year , 2 months and 3 great releases!

[+John. Subscriber¹]

How surprising!

[Ci7]

from what i heard , if they couldn't fix aero peak related bugs on time , they will just remove the feature from 3.6

then release 3.6 beta 1 without the feature

that mean you well have to wait for 3.7 for that feature.

[bogas04]

from what i heard , if they couldn't fix aero peak related bugs on time , they will just remove the feature from 3.6

then release 3.6 beta 1 without the feature

that mean you well have to wait for 3.7 for that feature.

or respective addons :)

btw , if beta 1 is already code-frozen , then why cant they release it now ? i mean beta 2 is now developing and no more changes are made for beta 1 , so what is wrong in releasing it?

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

Maybe they're working on Valve time?

... Seriously though, I'd rather they get the major bugs out before they release.

[erpster3]

I remember once the release date of Beta 1 was early September , O God! From early september to late october!!!

When will Beta 2 come , and then RC , i dont think they will be able to release it this year , 2 months and 3 great releases!

with all those delays with the public release of Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, there may NOT be a Beta 2 release being planned and mozilla could just go straight to RC. I've read on this page that a proposed "code freeze" of Firefox 3.6 RC would take place in mid-November but that might be a reach.

The chances of FF3.6 being released by the end of this year are getting a lot smaller, bogas04. Most likely the final release of version 3.6 would be due out sometime in the beginning of year 2010 when Mozilla ends all support for Firefox 3.0.

Looks like you'll have to wait until Halloween (Oct. 31), worst case scenario of course, for the actual release of FF3.6b1 to come out. If Mozilla doesn't make it available by the end of October, start participating in the Google Groups "mozilla.dev.planning" Usenet group section, contact either Damon Sicore or Mike Beltzner of Mozilla as to why they have postponed the release of Firefox 3.6 beta 1 so many times. I'd like to hear their responses to the questions on all those delays with the FF3.6b1 release.

btw , if beta 1 is already code-frozen , then why cant they release it now ? i mean beta 2 is now developing and no more changes are made for beta 1 , so what is wrong in releasing it?

try reading this:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/DeliveryMeetings/2009-10-28

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

* mkaply noticed that we changed the behaviour of the frozen interface (nsIPrefBranch.idl) which means we need to respin

* this will delay the beta 1-2 days

does that answer your question as to why Mozilla hasn't made a public release of FF3.6b1

Edited October 29, 2009 by erpster3

[bogas04]

with all those delays with the public release of Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, there may NOT be a Beta 2 release being planned and mozilla could just go straight to RC. I've read on this page that a proposed "code freeze" of Firefox 3.6 RC would take place in mid-November but that might be a reach.

The chances of FF3.6 being released by the end of this year are getting a lot smaller, bogas04. Most likely the final release of version 3.6 would be due out sometime in the beginning of year 2010 when Mozilla ends all support for Firefox 3.0.

Looks like you'll have to wait until Halloween (Oct. 31), worst case scenario of course, for the actual release of FF3.6b1 to come out. If Mozilla doesn't make it available by the end of October, start participating in the Google Groups "mozilla.dev.planning" Usenet group section, contact either Damon Sicore or Mike Beltzner of Mozilla as to why they have postponed the release of Firefox 3.6 beta 1 so many times. I'd like to hear their responses to the questions on all those delays with the FF3.6b1 release.

try reading this:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/DeliveryMeetings/2009-10-28

does that answer your question as to why Mozilla hasn't made a public release of FF3.6b1

thanks for that info :D

from what i heard , if they couldn't fix aero peak related bugs on time , they will just remove the feature from 3.6

Yes u heard it right ,

we may need to remove Aero Peek Preview Per Tab due to implementation problems; if we can't get bug 520807, bug 520943 and bug 522262 fixed by the end of the week, we'll likely pull it

Wiki page

[Growled Member]

Thanks for the update. I have no problems with them waiting until the release is ready to release it.

[erpster3]

A quick update:

read the following Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning thread by Mike Beltzner on the upcoming Firefox 3.6 Beta release:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev...3dba39a65313af#

hmm, it looks like there may be a 3rd candidate build of FF3.6b1 coming. oh-boy. :o

[DrCheese]

Yup, it's being built at the moment...

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...didates/build3/

[Kirkburn]

Unfortunately, this is just fairly normal software development.

Yes, it's annoying for the users - but imagine how it is for the developers. They just want to get the damn thing finished, but even on simple software project there can also be so so many edge cases you would never have thought of :(

Ah, the life of a product manager...