RSSFirefox 3.1 beta 3 developers prepare for freeze
By Angela Gunn | Published March 3, 2009, 8:17 PM
Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, sent out the call Tuesday afternoon on mozilla.dev.planning: It's time to lock the trees and land the bugs on beta 3 of the 3.1 version of the browser.
As of 3pm PST, just nine bug landings stood between the dev team and handoff of mozilla-1.9.1 to the Release Engineering crew according to the mozilla.dev.planning thread on Google Groups. Beltzner noted in his Twitter stream that he "is hoping we get done with beta 3 code for Firefox tonight" after a day so busy he was wondering if he needed to block off time for bathroom breaks; the staff of Betanews wishes him all the best with, well, all of the above.
Been using Beta 2,and have had no problems,no crashes,no bugs,and it's very fast.
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|Normally, I use trunk nightlies, but when Shiretoko went branch- so did I. And I never hit any major issues, during that time- just nit picky things. Soooo- 3.1 SHOULD take off like hot cakes...as long as they get that g-mail bug repaired (IMHO).
JIT enabled all the way :)
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|Downloaded it - Seems pretty snappy so far.
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|can't wait! looks very promising
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|It became really silent around Firefox, didn't it? They totally slipped off my radar.
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|Indeed. There's been very little fanfare since the ridiculous "Guinness World Record" downloadathon of the 3.0 browser.
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|I've been testing Beta 3 for a while now and all I can say is Firefox 3.1 will smoke Firefox 3.0 in performance! :)
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|I'm eagerly awaiting 3.1, couldn't use Beta 2 due to a few of the lingering bugs being downright annoying (the constant password prompt, for instance).
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|I've been running the beta 2 nightly builds for a while and don't remember that problem ever occurring. It's been fairly stable.
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|@ geeknik.....'smoke Firefox 3.0' you werent kidding......just installed the 3.1 beta 2 and pages load so fast if I even start to blink I miss it......lol.......well done to the Mozilla dev's......really cant wait for the finial version :)
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