“Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today we are code complete for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New nightly builds are available – if you are a nightly tester/Minefield user you can help test these builds by selecting “Check for Updates” from your help menu.
Assuming no new issues are found today the build team will start official prep work for Release Candidate 1 (RC1) tomorrow. QA will start their extensive RC1 test pass on Monday. If all goes well we should have the Release Candidate publicly available in late May.
RC1 is intended for wider scale public testing. Our 1.2M+ active beta users will automatically get updated to RC1 when it is released. If no new showstopper issues are found in RC1 it will become Firefox 3 final. If we find any critical issues we will continue to release new Release Candidates until we are ready for final ship.”
Source: Mozilla Developer News
I’m super excited to get my hands on QA tested RC builds of Firefox 3. I’ve been using Minefield for months now and it keeps getting better everyday, so maybe I’ve ruined some of the surprise but at any rate, it’s going to be good.
If I had to predict, I would say they’ll go through at least 2 official RC builds before final release. That places the final code of Firefox 3 to be out in mid to late June.
