Automatic updates most likely to roll out on Thursday

Mar 13, 2012 15:31 GMT  ·  By

We already reported that the official release of Firefox 11 would be delayed, but the launch date should not be too far away since the new version has been uploaded to Mozilla’s FTP. You can also download it from Softpedia.

Johnathan Nightingale, senior director of Firefox Engineering, announced that the update for Firefox 11 would not be released as scheduled, this Tuesday. He provided Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday and security issues as the reasons governing the decision.

However, Mozilla may roll out Firefox 11 officially today, but not at their usual time (8 AM PDT), and not through the background update mechanism. That’s because last minute changes may cause problems for some users.

As such, pushing the new update to the users may start on Thursday or Friday, as we reported initially. You will be able to install the new release manually, though.

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