Time is virtually running out for Firefox 2.0. In this context, Mozilla is gearing up for the upcoming mid-December support cut-off date for version 2.0. With codename Shiretoko cooking for a late 2008, early 2009 release, starting on August 25, Mozilla has unleashed Firefox 3.0.1 as a major update for the open source browser, signaling the proverbial beginning of the end for Firefox 2.0. While still approximately months away from the moment when it will pull the plug on Firefox 2.0, Mozilla has kicked into high gear the migration to the latest iteration of the open source browser. The debut of this week was synonymous with the introduction... [read more >>] The gold bits of Firefox 3.0 went live on June 17, 2008, over half a year past the initially planned launch which was targeted for the end of 2007. At just a few days short of the first two months on the market for the successor of Firefox 2.0, users of Mozilla's open source browser now have access not only to the download version of Firefox 3.0, but also to the CD. Via Mozilla's store, Firefox 3.0 CDs go for $4.20 a pop in the U.S. and £3.00 per item for additional international markets. "With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before," reads a fragment from the description of the brow... [read more >>] Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 is available for download since July 28, 2008 under the codename Shiretoko, and now Mozilla is gearing up for the release of the first Beta of Firefox 3.0's successor. According to Mozilla's initial plans, Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is scheduled to drop by the end of August; however, nothing is set in stone. From the pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, namely Shiretoko Alpha 1, Mozilla needs to go to Alpha 2 stage, before jumping to Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1. Still, the proposed deadline for the Code Freeze of Firefox 3.1 Beta 1, a critical phase on the road to availability, is August 19, 2008. But at this point... [read more >>] While Microsoft is laboring to produce the second Beta of Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla not only wrapped up Firefox 3.0 formerly codenamed Grand Paradiso, but also moved onward with the development of Firefox 3.1 codenamed Shiretoko. With the earliest builds of Shiretoko debuting hot on the heels of Firefox 3.0's launch, Mozilla unveiled Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 at the end of the past week, making the development milestone available for download and starting on building Alpha 2. The first Alpha of Shiretoko is by no means feature complete, far from it in fact, but it will give testers a taste of what's coming in the final release. Mike ... [read more >>] Firefox 3.1 codename Shiretoko Alpha 1 is available for download. The fully-fledged Alpha development milestone of the next version of Mozilla's open source browser went live at the end of the past week. In this context, Mozilla managed to slip just a tad from its initial plans to make Alpha 1 available in mid-July. Firefox 3.1 only entered the code-freeze stage on Monday July 21, with the first build up for grabs on July 26. Still, Mozilla is moving full steam ahead to deliver the successor of Firefox 3.0 launched on June 17, downloaded over 8 million times just in the first 24 hours. According to Mozilla's own release criteria, ... [read more >>] Mozilla assured as early as the past week that the first security and stability update for Firefox 3.0 would be available for download on July 16, and it looks like it lived up to its promise. Although official confirmation has yet to be made available, Firefox 3.0.1 is already up for grabs, one day following the release of Firefox 2.0.0.16, and almost one month since Firefox 3.0 went live and reached the 8 million downloads milestone in the first 24 hours. Version 3.0.1 is the step Mozilla takes toward focusing exclusively on Firefox 3.0. Firefox 3.0.1 is designed to fix two security vulnerabilities, both labeled with a maximum severity ra... [read more >>] Firefox 3.0 is now the most downloaded piece of software in the first 24 hours. The publicity stunt that Mozilla has set up with the help of the open source community has been extremely fecund in terms of generating downloads for the successor of Firefox 2.0. On July 2, 2008, the Guinness World Records officially confirmed that Firefox 3.0 had broken down all barriers when it comes to the volume of downloads in the first day after launch. By June 18, Firefox 3.0 had skyrocketed to no less than 8.3 million downloads, but the official figure that set the world record is related to the 8,002,530 unique downloads of the open source browser. "Th... [read more >>] Mozilla has signed Firefox 2.0's death sentence. The predecessor of Firefox 3.0 has approximately six more months of life left, after which Mozilla will focus entirely on version 3.0 and above. In fact, Firefox 2.0 will not live to see 2009, and will be buried by versions 3.0 and 3.1 of the open source browser. It's nothing more than common practice for Mozilla to kill off older variants of Firefox within six months after the new releases ship, and v2.0 makes no exception to this rule. Since Firefox 3.0 was launched on June 17, 2008, Firefox 2.0 will be terminated by mid-December 2008."Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with secur... [read more >>] Believe it or not but Gran Paradiso is making a comeback. The codename for Firefox 3.0 is not dead, even after Mozilla released the final version of the latest iteration of its open source browser. Over 20 million of Firefox 3.0 downloads later, a piece of the original 3.0 version project is moving to the center stage yet again. Gran Paradiso is once more available for download. Of course, the codename offers nothing more than a new development milestone, but this time of Firefox 3.0.1. Along with Gran Paradiso 3.0.1 pre, Mozilla is also serving testers and developers a taste of Firefox 3.1 Shiretoko and Firefox 2.0.0.15. On June 27, 2008, ... [read more >>] While Microsoft was busy baking congratulatory IE cakes and cooking Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 due in August, Firefox 3.0 went over the 8.3 million downloads milestone worldwide on just the first day of availability. According to Chief Executive Officer John Lilly, Mozilla has served over 83 Terabytes of Firefox 3.0 in the first 24 hours since the release. Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's community coordinator, indicated that predictions ranged around 5 to 7 million downloads, especially with the server problems encountered by Mozilla when Firefox 3.0 went live. In this context, the 8.3 million is a figure which managed to surpass Mozilla's... [read more >>] | 
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