Firefox 3 coming next Tuesday. RC 3 is here.

By Percy Cabello

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.

Posted on June 11, 2008 - 11:53 pm || More on Firefox, News

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yiri

June 12, 2008 11:53 pm

“RC 3 is exactly the same as RC 3″

Oh really.

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Percy CabelloJune 12th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

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

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Amarjeet Rai's Blog

June 12, 2008 11:53 pm

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

June 12, 2008 11:53 pm

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

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Jeton

June 12, 2008 11:53 pm

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

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

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Sprocket999

June 12, 2008 11:53 pm

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

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Martin

June 17, 2008 11:53 pm

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

What is going on.

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Andrew

June 17, 2008 11:53 pm

What time can we download it?

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