Expect Two More Firefox 4 Betas Before The Release Candidate

It was not clear if Mozilla needed one or two beta releases after Firefox 4 Beta 10 was released last week. The Mozilla Firefox development team is still trying to resolve the remaining severe bugs (betaN hardblockers) that are preventing the release of the next Firefox browser.

Christian Legnitto, the Firefox release manager, made it clear on his blog on February 1 that there will indeed be two additional betas before the development team moves to the release candidate stage. “The current plan is to build [beta 12] when the remaining betaN hardblockers are done” which “is heavily dependent on fix and blocker creation rate” said Legnitto in the blog post.

This basically means that the team did not manage to resolve all serious issues yet. The plan is to release Firefox 4 Beta 11 to the public for testing, work on the remaining issues, build Beta 12 and release it to the public as well.

Mozilla last year postponed the release of Firefox 4 to the first quarter of 2011. Developers hinted at a late February releases which may be in jeopardy because of the recent development. It may be that Mozilla has to postpone the final release of Firefox again, since the team has to work on two beta releases and at least one release candidate before the final version can be build and released. Firefox 4 Beta 11 is expected to be released in the coming days, we keep you posted as usual.

Interested users can download Firefox 4 Beta 10 from the official Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta project page. The beta is offered for Windows, Linux and Mac. It will automatically update to Beta 11 once it becomes available.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday February 3, 2011 -
Tags:firefox 4, firefox beta, firefox release

Responses so far:

1. BalaC says:

   February 3, 2011 at 1:22 pm

   Waiting to get one of the quality product i love using.

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2. pitman says:

   February 6, 2011 at 7:32 am

   I don’t care if we get beta 15 as long as the final product is great.

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3. Mike says:

   February 15, 2011 at 9:55 pm

   Dont think anyone wil use the final as long as it wont play standard windows media player video streams.

   like this one:

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4. Marsue says:

   May 2, 2011 at 8:48 pm

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