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Firefox 3.1 still not ready, another beta coming soon?

by Brad Linder on November 26, 2008 at 04:00 PM

Mozilla is thinking about adding a third beta to the Firefox 3.1 development cycle. The original plan had been to release 2 betas and then move onto the release candidate phase. But Mozilla's Mike Beltzner says a third beta would give the team time to work out some existing bugs while giving people more time to kick the tires on new features like the new private browsing mode which allows you to surf the web without saving any data to disk.

The new beta wouldn't include any new features, but it will give the developers a chance to squash any major bugs before Firefox 3.1 is officially released early next year.

[via ComputerWorld]

Tags: firefox-3.1, firefox-3.1-beta, mozilla, private-browsing

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Alex MNov 26th 2008 4:30PM

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And it would give extension developers more time to update their stuff!

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finnithNov 27th 2008 1:25PM

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It would be pretty convenient if the private browsing feature would work like stealther, which is one-click.

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DamianNov 27th 2008 1:25PM

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Beta 3 will sort of have a new feature. The ctrl+tab / all tabs is being removed for beta 2 while is goes under some reworking (make more sense, not be a performance disaster etc...), it'll be landing again shortly after beta 2 is released.

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Salsa SharkNov 27th 2008 1:25PM

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They better do a complete overhaul of that new "All Tabs" functionality because that thumbnail approach was atrocious...and it didn't help that they completely disabled the ability to revert to the original (and much more straightforward) behaviour.

I truly don't understand why some of these design decisions (All Tabs, the New Tab button) lack any sense of User-Centered Design practices...I'm glad the community is vocal enough to force some of these stupid decisions to be rethought or rolled back.

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DamianNov 27th 2008 1:25PM

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Salsa Shark:

Well they're still using thumbnails and I don't see how you can say that's worse than an uninteractive pop down overflow menu. But the interface is getting improved and the order of the tabs is now going to be the order of the tab bar rather than the most recently used order.

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