Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 Soon, Gold in Mid-June

**RobRich** · May 28th, 2008, 04:09 PM

Mozilla developers expect to today freeze the codebase for Release Candidate 2 of the Firefox 3 web browser, with the revised version planned for launch next week. While there could be a minimal five-day delay due to RC2 development efforts, the public launch of Firefox 3 is still expected to go gold during the mid-June time frame.

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During the hour long call, developers narrowed down the list of important bugs to be fixed in RC2 to three, including one bug that causes Windows XP to crash and other incompatibilities that impact the browser’s use with Facebook, Hotmail and eBay. But most of the fixes are in and the outstanding issues won’t slow down the schedule very much, team developers said.

Source: ZDNet Blogs

**Whir** · May 28th, 2008, 04:19 PM

I wish my add-ons would be updated as quickly as these betas and RCs are coming.

**RicheemxX** · May 28th, 2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Whir

I wish my add-ons would be updated as quickly as these betas and RCs are coming.

you and me both!

**RobRich** · May 28th, 2008, 04:24 PM

Firefox add-on version compatibility issues are oftentimes little more than a qualifier string in the installer package. In such cases, you can typically use Nightly Tester Tools to work around the issue.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
Oxymoronical » Nightly Tester Tools

**Whir** · May 28th, 2008, 04:30 PM

I installed it, and it immediately removed Firefox from the programs that work on my computer. I weep.

**RobRich** · May 28th, 2008, 04:31 PM

BTW, on a related note for anyone running Minefield (Firefox 3 development builds). Those using the Minefield update feature are probably now running branch developement code. If you want to continue using trunk development code, then instead manually install the lastest trunk nightly build to migrate back to trunk, again probably until the next significant branch.

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

**Whir** · May 28th, 2008, 04:34 PM

It seems it was the skype add-on that installed itself. After removing it, Firefox started normally and works. All-in-one Sidebar, the add-on that hasn't been updated, is a bit quirky under NTT, but it does work.

**RicheemxX** · May 28th, 2008, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Whir

I installed it, and it immediately removed Firefox from the programs that work on my computer. I weep.

I had to jump to safe mode and remove/disable a few of the add-ons that didn't want to work. One of the ones "toolbar thinger" which is by the same developer didn't cause crashes but it wouldn't work

**Whir** · May 28th, 2008, 04:40 PM

I only use two add-ons: all-in-one sidebar and firegestures (because all-in-one mouse gestures hadn't been updated at all). Firefox does everything else I like by itself.

**RobRich** · May 28th, 2008, 05:06 PM

If you are not manually tweaking the network config (about:config), you might as well install FasterFox as well. Set turbo charged for a modern system with a broadband connection. Do not enable prefetching.

Fasterfox - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.