You can now have any Firefox 3 native theme on any OS (except Linux). Here are your options:
Linux Gnome Theme (experimental)
The Mac & Linux themes are experimental and the other two themes are still in development, but I have tested them out and they rock. It’s especially nice to have the Vista theme on XP.
Enjoy!
You can now officially download Mozilla Firefox v3.0. Enjoy!
If you are going to ask everyone interested in your browser to download it on the same day for a world record, you’d better fix your servers and fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting tomorrow, June 17th, you can download the final version of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 – the best web browser on planet earth! Please support the download day effort!
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
MozillaLinks has a great post on the features planned for Firefox 3.1 later this year. Firefox 3.1 will be a minor update to the Firefox 3.0 browser and will include features that were originally slated for 3.0 but didn’t make it. Firefox 3.1 will also include everything you expect from an update.
That’s right folks, you heard it here probably not first. But at any rate, the FINAL version of Firefox 3.0 will be released to the public on Tuesday June 17th.
Our good friend over at MozillaLinks has the full review:
NOTE: See my updated post.
From Asa Dotzler’s Blog:
“Firefox, now with 18.41% of the global browser market according to Net Applications, was the fastest growing browser in May.
The May numbers from Net Applications have been released to the public. The three notable moves, I think, are that IE has fallen more than 1 full percentage point in the last month, Firefox has gained nearly a point, and Firefox 3 pre-releases are very close to passing Opera’s desktop browser to become the 4th most used browser in the world.
IE continuing to lose market share is no surprise, but the 1.08 point drop is pretty significant for a one month period before the release of Firefox 3.
The Firefox growth of 0.65 points is the biggest monthly jump for Firefox in the last 7 months.
The most exciting change, though, is the Firefox 3 pre-release growth. Firefox 3 pre-releases grew .23 points in May — and without even maintaining that growth rate, it will surpass Opera’s desktop browser before Firefox 3 ships.“
This is exciting. I think Firefox 3 is poised to take over a lot of market share when it’s released this month.
Courtesy of MozillaLinks:
“On today’s Firefox 3 status meeting, the need for a second release candidate was confirmed and it has been tentatively targeted for early June.
RC2 will fix about a couple of dozen bugs including some top crashers, some affecting performance and localization related. Most of the bugs already have patches waiting for review or landing and the revised code is expected for tomorrow, with initial builds available on Thursday. QA will start the same day and last for about a week.
If all goes as planned, RC 2 should be released close to June 6 for a new round of tests by Firefox users. Depending on whether a new critical bug is found or not, a third RC could be necessary or RC2 will become Firefox 3 final.“
I think that we can still see a final Firefox 3 released in June. I do very much agree that FF needs another round of tests with RC2 because I’ve had quite a few crashes with RC1 and I think those bugs need to be resolved before they release the final code. It would look bad for them if they hastily released the browser just to stay on schedule. Hooray for RC2!!
