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First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door

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Mozilla has pushed out the initial release candidate of Firefox 3 for download. The new Firefox code of the firm’s increasingly popular web browser is available in 45 languages as a public preview for developers, as well as anyone else who fancies tinkering around with Internet Explorer’s closest rival. Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for nearly three years.

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Comments (8)

henke54 ·
Quoting: Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

By the way, the official date for the launch of Firefox 3 will be posted here soon - so check back! Join our community and this effort by pledging today.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
gus3 ·
Whatever happened to waiting for a point-release? As in, .N where N>0?
Steven_Rosenber ·
Kill me now.

All I want is for the final release to make its way into Ubuntu and for Google to get off its can and port Gears to it already.
tuxchick ·
It's against the TOS to bleed in the forums. But I don't see a prohibition on stabbing. Sorry Steven, you're outta here.
NoDough ·
Steven: I don't know much about Gears, but according to this page http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=69201&to... they already have ported it.
Steven_Rosenber ·
Gears runs on Linux, but only on Firefox 1.5 and 2. Not yet on Firefox 3. And not on Iceweasel, the renamed FF that is used in Debian, or Epiphany, the GNOME browser that's currently (but not for long, I think) built with the Mozilla engine.

If they could just make it work with Iceweasel, I'd be happy. I'm sure it's entirely hackable, but I haven't looked into it.
Bob_Robertson ·
"Gears"?

Not the GLX bench-mark?

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