Firefox 4 Beta 8 coming on 7th of December

[DKT27]

scheduled to arrive on the 30th of November, the Mozilla Project has confirmed that it plans to ship the eighth beta for version 4 of its open source Firefox web browser on Tuesday, the 7th of December. According to Mozilla's Platform Meeting Minutes, the developers criteria for release for Firefox 4 Beta 8 is "no stability regressions from previous beta".

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Mozilla says that Firefox 4 Beta 8 will ship at the same time as Firefox 4 Beta 3 for Mobile devices "in order to align on some sync changes" and that beta 8 will include stability fixes for graphics, JavaScript optimisations and various UI fixes related to the Add-ons manager. Based on the meeting notes from the 29th of November, the eight beta was being held by 29 blocker bugs. At the time of this writing, that number is now 18, two of them rated as critical.

Firefox 4 is the non-profit organisation's next-generation web browser based on version 2.0 of the Gecko rendering platform (the Firefox 3.6 branch uses Gecko 1.9.2) and features a new Add-ons Manager and extension management API. Other changes include a new 'tabs on top' layout, the integration of Firefox Sync, formerly known as Weave, and various new features aimed at web developers.

The latest stable release of Firefox is version 3.6.12, a security update that addressed a critical vulnerability, while the latest development preview is Firefox 4 Beta 7 from the 10th of November. A final release date for Firefox 4, has yet to be announced.

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[DKT27]

As I predicted. :P

[oZ.]

maybe 1 - 2 more delay ?

[tipo]

another beta... when will the final version be released? 2012?

[DKT27]

another beta... when will the final version be released? 2012?

There are about 10 Betas and 1 RC planned. If those betas after improving the browser, why worry even if we see 50 Betas. ;)

[JessicaLeigh]

Because the longer they keep putting off the final release, it sends a message to us FF fans that [Mozilla] aren't ahead of the browser technology curve as they'd like us all to believe; or at least not as ahead as their competitors are. We then begin questioning the superiority of their product technologies as the process drags on and on and on. It speaks volumes when they get sidetracked by going off to fight sidebar issues with their competitor's newest final releases. As a result, they miss all their deadlines for bringing their final product to market in a reasonable amount of time.

Now pardon me while I return to the pumpkin patch to keep Linus company. ;)

[HX1]

Hard to do all the same old things.... and innovate... I think its a massive challenge for Mozilla Devs.. not to mention all the people that want that innovation.. but want ti all the same way.. :rolleyes: Even I get a little 'wondery' about it.. LOL

I think they should use my setup as a platform and be done.. small improvement to a few areas.. - snicker..

[Night Owl]

I'm using Minefield 4.0 Beta 8pre right now, and it looks identical to Firefox 4.0 Beta 7. I don't like how both of these copied Google Chrome's spinning circle when a page in a tab loads. I liked the previous beta's progress bar within a tab so you knew how much of the page had loaded.

[HX1]

I can't believe they killed that.. Tab Mix Plus should be able to handle it though.. but the progress lines.. from some of the others may be harder to do.. have my whole URL Bar done that way right now..

[Naota]

another beta... when will the final version be released? 2012?

There are about 10 Betas and 1 RC planned. If those betas after improving the browser, why worry even if we see 50 Betas. ;)

You have a good point DK. The only problem with them having lots of Beta's is that many companies and individuals won't bother making addons until the final release is out. =) Other than that I could care less if they had 50 betas. Just look at Google.... king of all long lasting Betas. :rolleyes: