14 DAY TRIAL // There are a few more Beta Builds of Firefox 4.0 planned before the next major version of the open source browser hits Release Candidate, and a new development milestone might drop by the end of this month. Mozilla recently managed to offer early adopters the seventh Beta for the successor of Firefox 3.6 and is pushing onward to wrap up and deliver Firefox 4.0 Beta 8.
According to the open source browser vendor, code freeze for Firefox 4.0 Beta 8 is planned for the week of November 22nd, and this means that it won’t be long until the fully-fledged Beta will also follow.
In fact, chances are that early adopters will get to take Firefox 4.0 Beta 8 out for a spin ahead of December 2010, although Mozilla did not announce officially a release deadline for the upcoming development milestone.
There are two additional Beta releases of Firefox 4.0 planned for this year, and at this point in time it doesn’t sound likely that Mozilla will be able to pull off both Beta 9 and Beta 10 in December.
This only means that Firefox 4.0 gets pushed back a tad more into 2011, but not that much, and testers will get to take the first RC out for a spin quite early next year.
It’s important to note that with beta 7, Firefox 4.0 also hit feature freeze. In this regard, users will not be able to see any new major changes or features being introduced to the browser.
In fact, Mozilla is actually counting on this, noting that the remaining Beta releases will not take as much time as Beta 7, since the focus is now mainly on resolving all the bugs that still impact Firefox 4.0.
The open source browser vendor is looking to attract over two million Beta testers to try out Firefox 4.0 before the final release.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 for Windows is available for download here.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 for Linux is available for download here.
Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 for Mac is available for download here.