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Mozilla's Firefox 3 expected as early as June
Issue date: 3/31/08 Section: Business
Internet users should circle the month of June because Mozilla has stated in a discussion last week that that's when they will be releasing Firefox 3.
However, until then, you can still download a beta version of the software, which is currently at version 4 and has around 700,000 users.
It is important to point out that Firefox has 160 million people using its Web browser and this is just a small portion of its base.
According to Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at
Mozilla, the first release candidate is to ship as early as May.
However, it is unlikely that this one will be finished because the RC1 is at the point where most of the larger extension developers go ahead and re-work their code to be fully compatible with Firefox 3. This will make it easier to transfer over many of the popular extensions to the newer browser.
The public release of Beta 5 will be out the first week of April, which will be the last beta release before Firefox enters the Release Candidate stage.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer; however, has released their first beta for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 or IE8 as it is commonly referred to.
This was released on March 5th, and according to Microsoft focuses on security, ease of use and improvements in RSS, CSS and Ajax support along with significantly better support of Web standards compared to its predecessor.
As a result of better standards compliance, IE8 will break compatibility with Web pages that were designed around the bugs and quirks of previous versions. But they look to ease the trouble this may cause by including an option to turn off all the changes that would cause a site to break down and not work.
IE8 is still in its early stages, and the major corporation has not announced a final release. At this point, one can only wait patiently for it arrive to try it out for his or herself.
Photoshop moves the Internet
On Thursday, Adobe launched a basic version of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop for free online.
However, until then, you can still download a beta version of the software, which is currently at version 4 and has around 700,000 users.
It is important to point out that Firefox has 160 million people using its Web browser and this is just a small portion of its base.
According to Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at
Mozilla, the first release candidate is to ship as early as May.
However, it is unlikely that this one will be finished because the RC1 is at the point where most of the larger extension developers go ahead and re-work their code to be fully compatible with Firefox 3. This will make it easier to transfer over many of the popular extensions to the newer browser.
The public release of Beta 5 will be out the first week of April, which will be the last beta release before Firefox enters the Release Candidate stage.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer; however, has released their first beta for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 or IE8 as it is commonly referred to.
This was released on March 5th, and according to Microsoft focuses on security, ease of use and improvements in RSS, CSS and Ajax support along with significantly better support of Web standards compared to its predecessor.
As a result of better standards compliance, IE8 will break compatibility with Web pages that were designed around the bugs and quirks of previous versions. But they look to ease the trouble this may cause by including an option to turn off all the changes that would cause a site to break down and not work.
IE8 is still in its early stages, and the major corporation has not announced a final release. At this point, one can only wait patiently for it arrive to try it out for his or herself.
Photoshop moves the Internet
On Thursday, Adobe launched a basic version of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop for free online.
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