Mozilla to Release Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 on August 31

Mozilla is hot on the tracks of Microsoft as the Redmond Company has issued Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 the past week. While lagging behind due to an array of vulnerabilities, Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 is scheduled for release on August 31, 2006. This was confirmed on a company's weekly status meeting earlier this week. Firefox's developers enumerated a set of fixed bugs including talkback symbols visibility and the redirection of bookmark files as part of the tune-up effort. "On target to release Thursday, Aug 31st assuming no stop-ship items discovered in L10N builds which are now available as candidates. We'll be updating Alpha1/2/3 and Beta1 users to Beta2 upon release," read the online minutes.

The minutes also presented Mozilla's strategy regarding the users running Alpha1/2/3 and Beta1 versions of the browsers. According to the discussions, all the precedent browser variants will be automatically updated to the Firefox 2.0 Beta 2. While as of now the upgrading process was possible only via the complete installation package, Mozilla has embedded the feature as an update mechanism.

The online minutes also revealed that Mozilla has scheduled Release Candidate 1 lockdown for September 13th at 11:59pm PDT, the date being in the proximity of the Firefox 2.0 RC1 shipping.