Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 Available Soon

The seventh Beta development milestone of the next iteration of Firefox will be made available for download soon.

It’s been quite a wait for Firefox 4.0 Beta 7, a release initially planned for mid-September 2010, but as early adopters following the development process closely, the delay was more than necessary.

Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 as well as pre-Beta 7 nightly builds weren’t exactly at the top of their game as far as stability and reliability was concerned, with testers reporting a variety of glitches, including severe crashes.

On November 2nd, 2010, Mozilla noted that a single blocker for Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 had remained unfixed. Earlier today there were no more bugs severe enough from preventing Firefox 4.0 to graduate to Beta 7 stage.

It’s highly likely that the open source browser vendor has already moved on to building Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 Builds, although none are actually shared with testers at this point in time, except the nightly releases already available.

At the end of the past month Mozilla announced a consistent delay of the Firefox 4.0 project.

Initially slated for release by the end of 2010, Firefox 4.0 will only be wrapped up and made available to end users in early 2011.

At this point in time, Mozilla plans to offer another three Beta development milestones of Firefox 3.6’s successor.

Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 will be dropped in early November, followed by Beta 8, which is also planned for launch by the end of this month.

Beta 9 and Beta 10 of Firefox 4.0 will also ship to testers by the end of 2010, with the final Beta in December.

2011 will bring with it the Release Candidate stage for Firefox 4.0, and the final release, for which a deadline has yet to be announced.

Firefox 4 Beta 6 for Windows is available for download here.

Firefox 4 Beta 6 for Linux is available for download here.

Firefox 4 Beta 6 for Mac is available for download here.