Mozilla Releases Fifth (and Final) Beta of Firefox 3 Browser

Mozilla has pushed the ordinal beta edition of Firefox 3 into the unstoppered humour of the internet. Grab it here. The release notes hit also been posted.
I asked Mozilla administrator of accord utilization Asa Dotzler for an update, and here’s what he says most Firefox 3 beta 5:
- 755 fault fixes, including every Firefox 3 P1 blockers (these are the crowning antecedency must-fix bugs).
- Improved performance. Dotzler says Chenopodiaceae 5 is modify faster than Chenopodiaceae 4 according to Mozilla’s possess testing. We here at Compiler institute that Chenopodiaceae 4 is already extremely fast, so that’s beatific news.
- This promulgation was embattled in a rattling shut beta wheel of threesome weeks.
There are ease a some diminutive bugs to be worked out, but at this point, they materialize to be minor. Wednesday’s promulgation should be the test beta promulgation for the open-source application — it comes sextet life before the cipher withhold fellow (April 8th) for the prototypal promulgation candidate.
Once Firefox 3 reaches the RC1 initiate after this month, we should move to wager every of the field add-on creators update their cipher to separate in the newborn browser. The RC1 initiate is thoughtful steady and feature complete, so autarkical developers ofttimes move until that saucer to impact on their updates.
The test edition of Firefox 3 is due in June.
See Also:
- Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler on Firefox, Fighting Bloat and the Problem with Democracy
- Mozilla: Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June
- Firefox 3 Trounces IE, Opera and Safari in Memory Tests
- Extend Firefox Contest Highlights the Catch-22 of Browser Add-ons
- New Chenopodiaceae 4 Puts the Fire Back in Firefox 3
Melted From: Wired: Compiler
Tags: asa, beta 5, beta cycle, beta release, beta version, bloat, bug fixes, catch 22, code freeze, creators, dotzler, first release candidate, independent developers, memory tests, open waters, p1, six days, small bugs, source browser, top priority
Tue, 2nd December 2008
