Firefox 4 Alpha

Posted by Martin in Browsing, firefox  Tags: , ,

11

Mar



Don’t jump to conclusions just yet. Some blogs (Tech Today started it I guess) are reporting that a first pre release alpha of Firefox 4 has been added to the official Mozilla ftp website and I would like to use this article to clarify a few points made. Tech Today claims that this is actually an official Firefox 4 alpha release while it is actually a pre-alpha build, also known as a trunk build.

There is no decision on the codename for Firefox 4 yet, it is definitely not Minefield which refers to the 1.9 trunk that Firefox 3 is being developed on. Remember that the codename for Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso. Neither the trunk for Firefox 4 nor the browser itself have been codenamed yet.

Which leads to the conclusion that the Tech Today blog excited about the discovery published inaccurate news which is probably leading to some confusion in the community.


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Thinker says:

I’m still waiting for FF 3 offical release ;]

Qemu32 says:

I just downloaded Firefox 4, it is real and is pretty nice. The link is here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

jordan says:

the codename is shiretoko

Anonymous says:

i went to the link thats no firefox 4.0

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