Firefox 3 Coming on Tuesday, June 17th

firefox Official date has been set! The Mozilla Developers News blog has made an announcement earlier today, saying "After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th"

Yes, there is a small possibility of a major bug being discovered, like the one found in the Mac version of Firefox 3, due to which a third release candidate was put out. Hopefully, everything will go smoothly and we’ll have the browser on next Tuesday.

If you are participating in the "Download Day" campaign, then don’t forget to download and install Firefox 3 on Tuesday. Mozilla is attempting to set the Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.

It’s not just Firefox, but Opera users have a reason to rejoice as well. Opera Software has announced the availability of Opera 9.5. After months of beta, Opera 9.5 is finally released. Along with the new look and feel, Opera 9.5 also features a new rendering engine for better performance, and several security measures for safe and secure browsing. You can download Opera 9.5 or read the Changelog.

This post was published by on June 12, 2008

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  • http://www.newgrounds.com Kate

    the school’s fire wall won’t let me get through to anything, no games, no chatting with friends, no videos and Deviantart. can you unblock it some how?

  • http://www.techtola.com Quakeboy

    I have already circulated a mail with this info to all the groups and asked them to forward too !!

    BTW… I just loooovvveeee the pic buddy.. Where did ya get it from ??

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    Thilak, hi, if you have used the betas, do you think it is worth upgrading to Firexfox 3? Are there many changes that will be noticable for everyday use (and will existing plugins work)?

  • http://www.eventurebiz.com John Hoff – eVentureBiz

    I downloaded the beta version and it’s been working great so far. I noticed though that some of my addons (like Check4Change) that worked for version 2 doesn’t work on version 3.

    I didn’t delete my addons, I just left them there and as Mozilla continues to work on FF3 I’ve noticed one-by-one my addons are coming back and installing themselves.

    Other than that, FF3 (beta) works perfectly for me.

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    Will download Firefox on Tuesday. Only hope that there will be no bugs to screw up my happiness!

  • http://technologycurrent.com Julian

    I’m looking forward to the new release. I downloaded the Beta test version, but it was a little buggy. The flash plugin wouldn’t install ; (

  • http://www.eventurebiz.com John Hoff – eVentureBiz

    @Wii – I haven’t had any problems other than a few of my addons not being compatible – but I think they are being updated all the time to be FF3 compliant.

    I’d say download it. It works the same and pretty much looks the same.

  • http://www.techtola.com Quakeboy

    @Julian Yes I did not have that problem, but my friend did.. I am sure ff3 is gonna be rocking

  • http://lovermus.com paulette

    Im starting to love firefox lately because of its speed compared to internet explorer. If IE wouldn’t do something about it all internet users will switch to firefox.

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    Thanks John, any idea if it works with SEO For Firefox plugin?

  • http://www.seoresults.co.za SEO Man

    Tomorrow is world download day. I am going to do my bit for the firefox 3 world download record attempt.

  • http://www.forumistan.net Forumistan

    Firefox 3 will be the best browser (Maybe), I can download it tomorrow.

  • http://tech-buzz.net/2008/06/16/social-browser-flock-goes-20-built-on-firefox-3/ Social Browser Flock Goes 2.0, Built on Firefox 3

    [...] Mozilla powered social web browser, Flock has released a new beta version of Flock 2.0 for early adopters and bug hunters. So far, Flock was using Firefox 2’s code under the hood, so it didn’t include all the performance and security improvements featured in Firefox 3, which is due for release tomorrow. [...]

  • http://www.eventurebiz.com John Hoff – eVentureBiz

    @Wii – yup, that one works. So does my Check4Change now.

    Here are some that aren’t compatible yet.
    - FireFTP
    - Live PageRank
    - NewTabURL
    - PayPal Plug-In for Firefox
    - PermaTabs
    - Save Image in Folder
    -SEOpen
    - Stealther
    - Tab Mix Plus

    However, I can tell they are working on this because my list when I first downloaded beta was longer. I just left those addons in place and as Firefox works on them to become FF3 compatible, they automatically re-install.

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    Thanks John, I think I am suitably convinced to hit the download button!

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    There is no download! Only a pledge!!

  • http://technologycurrent.com/ Julian

    Haha who would have guessed the servers would go down with a gazillion people trying to download at the same time ; )

  • http://technodorm.com Fahad

    I have installed Firefox 3.0 today. The loading time has decreased thankfully! Now I dont gotta wait a half an hour for it to load up. :D

    But the autocomplete feature when writing URLs is really pissing me off right now….. does anyone know if we can turn that off?

  • http://www.deemx.com DeeMX

    I have some problems with compatible plugins, but I have resolve it and use FF3 comfortable.

  • http://ziogeek.com/il-social-browser-flock-raggiunge-la-versione-20-basandosi-su-firefox-3/ Il Social Browser Flock raggiunge la versione 2.0 basandosi su Firefox 3 » ZioGeeK.com

    [...] Il social browser Mozilla (Flock) ha rilasciato una nuova versione beta di Flock 2.0 per i bug hunter . Flock utilizzava parte del codice di Firefox 2 , percio’ non  include le prestazioni e i miglioramenti della sicurezza di Firefox 3 , che rilascierà  una nuova versione prossimamente . [...]

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com/ Nicole Price

    Will download Firefox on Tuesday. Only hope that there will be no bugs to screw up my happiness!