TechWeb is reporting that Mozilla Corp. has pushed back the release date of the final version of Firefox 2.0 into mid-to-late October, citing outstanding bugs. As of Monday's weekly progress meeting Firefox 2 has about 40 bugs to squash before it will be ready for a second beta release, and about 100 before its final release in October. Accordingly, Firefox 2.0 beta 2, which was supposed to be released yesterday, has been pushed back a week to August 23, and the first release candidate is scheduled to appear on September 19. You can read the full minutes of the meeting on the MozillaWiki.Firefox 2 delayed til mid-to-late October
TechWeb is reporting that Mozilla Corp. has pushed back the release date of the final version of Firefox 2.0 into mid-to-late October, citing outstanding bugs. As of Monday's weekly progress meeting Firefox 2 has about 40 bugs to squash before it will be ready for a second beta release, and about 100 before its final release in October. Accordingly, Firefox 2.0 beta 2, which was supposed to be released yesterday, has been pushed back a week to August 23, and the first release candidate is scheduled to appear on September 19. You can read the full minutes of the meeting on the MozillaWiki.
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8-16-2006 @ 8:32PM
Qwfwq said...
It's starting to look like a trend, delaying the release of new versions: first Vista, then Leopard and now Firefox 2.0 . Doesn't really matter as long as the final release is stable, I'm sure Firefox 1.5 will do for a few more weeks.
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