Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 by the End of October -

[Student26]

Today it’s exactly one week since Mozilla delivered the last Beta development milestone of the next generation of its browser.

With the Firefox 4.0 project, Mozilla was hoping to deliver Beta Builds at a much faster pace, per the Google Chrome model.

And the open source browser vendor pretty much pulled it off for the first six Beta Builds. In fact, Mozilla was prolific enough that it actual decided not to attach numbers to the new Beta releases of Firefox in order to avoid damaging the browser’s image.

But following the release of Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 Mozilla slowed down a tad. So much in fact, that whereas it was offering a new Beta every two to three weeks, it has now been a month since Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 is being built.

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Yes, there will be two more Beta development milestones of Firefox 4.0, with Beta 8 following the release which is targeted for the second half of this month.

Source - Softpedia

[Alboguy]

I'm really looking forward to the stable release...they should hurry a bit.

[leofelix]

Thank you
well I'll wait for a Release Candidate at least

[Student26]

I'm in the same ship, i think I will wait for the stable release

[johnshaw1917]

No hurry on my part. I'll wait "impatiently" for the stable release.

[INDRANIL]

Ok let's wait . Thanks for the info.

[safeguy]

I'm fine with the way it is right now....I think they're giving the add-on developers some time to play catch-up so let's be fair on them

[princeaniket]

taking into account chrome is developing .. Mozilla.org should hurry in giving/developing stable version.. although the Firefox share is increasing in browsers market share.. but, the rapid increase in chrome's share is a little worry for Mozilla developers..
waiting for the next stable version..
and so as different extension/Down-loader eg. IDM's nice integration with it..

[jj1two3]

I have used Firefox 4.0 Beta since Beta 1. It has come a long way. Very few add-on I had with 3.6 work with Firefox 4.0 beta.

Been using Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 now for 2 weeks. Still loving it..

[Student26]

Very few add-on I had with 3.6 work with Firefox 4.0 beta.

That's the main reason I have stuck with the stable 36 editions. The best part of Firefox is the addon support and the customization that comes with that. In terms of speed and rendering, the competition has a slight edge.

I have also red that the release candidate has been pushed back again,

"with the final version expected to ship by early 2011"