Seems that June is the month not only of Opera 9.5 final but also the one of Firefox 3. The Mozilla team has just announced that June 17th will be the release date for the final version of Firefox 3. You can expect to get a heads up message here at Ghacks as soon as the release has been transferred to the public Mozilla ftp site. Ghacks readers get the release faster and without all the slow transfer rates that could probably occur on such an important release date for the Mozilla team.
It took the Mozilla team more than 34 months to create the new Firefox version, a long time indeed. On a side note, the Mozilla Firefox team wants the world record. Which you may ask. The world record for the most downloaded software in the first 24 hours after release date. You can still pledge your loyalty to the cause at the Spread Firefox website. Somewhat silly but a nice popularity stunt.
Whenever we’re asked “when is Firefox going to be released” we endeavor to answer to the best of our abilities, but the truth of the matter is that we’ll only ever ship “when it’s ready”. We have a lot of indicators that help us understand when the product is ready for release: feedback from our pre-release milestones, excitement in the community and the press, availability of compatible Add-Ons, and a large active beta community helping us ensure that the release is compatible with all the various sites on the Internet.
To celebrate the event Mozilla parties are planned. Currently more than 420 parties are listed at the Mozilla Party website. Everyone can join a party there or host one.
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I can’t wait !
I use Firefox on my computer on a regular basis. I can not even image how to surf without it. IE? pure junk. I really dont understand how people can go on using it! Anyway I already tried the firefox beta version and it is simply amazing. It takes half resources than the actual Firefox!
>To celebrate the event Mozilla parties are planned. Currently more than 420 parties are listed at the Mozilla Party website. Everyone can join a party there or host one.
Party to celebrate browser release?………………….
I wish not enjoy my pleasure for this celebration and coming parties by picking on other browsers : Firefox has enough qualities by itself. Moreover, the idea of the best, the Super Browser, is in my opinion a bit naive! I think we stick with one browser rather than with another (though some practice more than one regularly) because of affinities for the architecture and for the interface, because of communities which we linger to belong to, etc etc … This said, after having tried them all, main ones anyway, Firefox is indeed the one I prefer.
So, let the parties begin!
your parties have just been gate crashed by opera 9.5… the best browser EVER…
Sure, RM, certainly. Coffee? :)
Cool I really look forward to it.
I only hope that al my plugins will work with the final FF3.
I have a big bunch of plugins and I don’t want to lose any of them :-P
Most of the extensions have been updated for 3.0 compatibility ; even “Sage”, my dear “Sage”! is now, with “Sage-Too” again available on 3.0!