14 DAY TRIAL // Firefox 4.0 is one step closer to being wrapped up and ready for the public, now that the tenth Beta development milestone has been made available for download. Mozilla has released Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 and is already looking forward to offering early adopters the Beta 11 Build for testing.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 was built the past Friday, but the release needed to go through a few more rounds of testing ahead of being ready for a widespread release.
According to the release notes accompanying the tenth Beta Build, Mozilla focused on improving stability in relation to graphics drivers as well as bettering memory usage.
Testers can now download Firefox 4.0 Beta 10, take it out for a spin and judge Mozilla’s progress on their own.
Of course, this is not the last Beta development milestone that Mozilla has planned for Firefox 4.0.
In fact, at least one other Beta Build will follow. As it was the case with Firefox 4.0 Beta 10, Firefox 4.0 Beta 11 will be designed to deliver fixes for severe bugs that still impact the project.
There aren’t all that many hard blockers for the Beta development stage of Firefox 4.0 left, and the open source browser vendor has a real chance to resolve them in the immediate future.
Brendan Eich co-founder of mozilla.org and the CTO of Mozilla recently made a plea with Firefox developers to focus on the hard blockers that are effectively blocking the release of Firefox 3.6’s successor and to post-pone fixing less severe bugs to releases such as v4.x or even to Firefox 5.0.
The current plan is to have Firefox 4.0 Beta 11 Builds put together this Friday. In this regard, early adopters could get to test Firefox 4.0 Beta 11 as soon as next week.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 for Windows is available for download here.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 for Linux is available for download here.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 for Mac is available for download here.