14 DAY TRIAL // Firefox 7 Final is now less than a week away, but there’s already a near-complete release of the next iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser available for download. The last Beta Build of Firefox 7 is also the Release Candidate development milestone which testers have already been able to grab for a few days now.
Mozilla has even been shipping automatic updates of Firefox 7 RC to early adopters, namely those running Firefox 7 Beta Refresh 5.
Just so there's no confusion, Firefox 7 Beta Refresh 6 is actually Firefox 7 RC, the last testing Build before this release is wrapped up and served to end users next week.
“We have a release candidate for the next version of Firefox! The most recent Firefox Beta is our release candidate. If no issues are found, this version will be released to all Firefox users on Tuesday, 2011-09-27,” Mozilla said.
“The Firefox Beta update we pushed on Monday is our release candidate. If you are running an up-to-date Firefox Beta you are already testing the release candidate…thanks! If not, open the “About” dialog to download the latest,” the company added.
Jorge Villalobos, the Add-ons Developer Relations Lead for Mozilla urged add-on developers to make sure that their extensions play nice with Firefox 7 ahead of its release.
Firefox add-on devs have certainly been forced to put in extra work just to make sure their projects keep up the pace with the accelerated release process for new Firefox iterations which succeed one another roughly six weeks apart.
“We are doing pretty well on the compatibility front, but there are still many add-ons that are incompatible with 7, some of them very popular. If any of your add-ons are among this group, I encourage you to read the compatibility documentation available and update your add-on as soon as possible,” Villalobos said.
Firefox 7 RC (7.0b6) and Firefox 6 for Windows are available for download here.
Firefox 7 RC (7.0b6) and Firefox 6 for Linux are available for download here. Firefox 7 RC (7.0b6) and Firefox 6 for Mac are available for download here.