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[Internet]| Tuesday 1st July 2008 |
The news emerged at a Mozilla meeting this week when a draft schedule for Firefox development was discussed.
The release would be a first developer preview, with a beta following in August and a full release scheduled in early 2009.
This schedule has yet to be approved, but Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's
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The short delay between updates is partly due to the fact that many of the features expected in the upcoming release are already "nearly complete", according to Schroepfer. They represent code that narrowly missed inclusion in version 3.0.
Expected in the new software are improvements to the bookmarking functions and an update to the awesome bar, as well as several improvements to the rendering engine courtesy of Gecko 1.9.1, which is under parallel development.
Mozilla claims that over 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3.0 on the day of its release. This is expected to become a world record for the number of downloads on a release day, although officials from Guinness have yet to verify the figure.
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