Firefox 3 coming next Tuesday. RC 3 is here.
Posted by Percy Cabello on June 11th, 2008 • Tags:
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Firefox Victory posterMozilla has announced that the final version of Firefox 3 will go public next Tuesday, June 17, 2008:

After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.

As part of the celebration, design firm Nobox has created a cool new poster that summarizes the robot series headed with the word Victory.You can get a large version of it at Flickr.

In related news, Mozilla released today the third release candidate of Firefox 3 to address a crashing bug affecting Mac OS X 10.5.3 users in some specific conditions. For Windows and Linux users, RC 3 is exactly the same as RC 2.

For the full details of Firefox 3, check the latest full review.

Comments
yiri said on June 12, 2008, 1:02 am:

“RC 3 is exactly the same as RC 3″

Oh really.

Amarjeet Rai's Blog said on June 12, 2008, 5:00 am:

Firefox 3 Coming Next Tuesday (17th June)…

Mozilla has announced that the final version of Firefox 3 will go public next Tuesday, June 17, 2008:

After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. Put on your p……

anonymous said on June 12, 2008, 5:16 am:

“For Windows and Linux users, RC 3 is exactly the same as RC 3.”
O RLY?
(o,o)
|)__)
-”-”-

Jeton said on June 12, 2008, 5:20 am:

“For Windows and Linux users, RC 3 is exactly the same as RC 3.”

Shouldn’t that be : …is exactly the same as RC2. ?

Sprocket999 said on June 12, 2008, 7:24 am:

I’m pretty sure you are right, Jeton. With luck someone will fix this oversight (sooner).

FireFox 3 Release Date | Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot said on June 12, 2008, 7:44 am:

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Percy Cabello said on June 12, 2008, 12:49 pm:

Of course! And also the same as RC 2! ;) Corrected.

Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) planned features draft - Mozilla Links said on June 13, 2008, 12:07 am:

[...] Firefox 3 approaches its grand debut this next Tuesday, for Mozilla developers it means the end of a development cycle and the start of [...]

Opera 9.5 Web Browser Released said on June 13, 2008, 1:51 pm:

[...] you may be (justifiably) asking yourself, "does it really matter, since the release of FireFox 3 is just around the corner?"  While FireFox probably won’t face a serious threat to its throne from Opera 9.5, [...]

Martin said on June 17, 2008, 9:10 am:

Its 2PM in the UK, 3PM CET and there is still no Firfox 3!!!

What is going on.

Andrew said on June 17, 2008, 11:26 am:

What time can we download it?