After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, Mozilla has officially announced that they would be releasing the final version on June 17. As we all know, it has been almost a month since the first release Candidate version of Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser, and yet there was no officially announcement about the final version. Firefox 3 RC 3 have launched a week after release of RC2.
Mozilla said that Firefox 3 Final release will be shipped and ready to download whenever its ready, and it will be ready at 17th June as Mozilla developer news announcement.
Mozilla has big plans for the day. Mozilla is hoping to set a world record for the most software downloads within a 24 hour period. The company is also encouraging people to plan Firefox parties around the globe. Very, very geeky Firefox downloading parties.
Microsoft which had over 94% of the market share back in 2003, has lost shares consistently to Firefox and the later is about to surpass 20% worldwide market share in July. This certainly shows that Firefox has been progressing steadily regardless of the fact that Microsoft with its Internet Explorer product controls the web browsing market.
Internet Explorer 8 is in its beta testing right now and the final version is expected by the end of 2008. If Firefox 3 succeeds in making its mark, it might make Microsoft think about releasing IE8 soon(they might consider adding more features so that they can compete with Firefox 3).
The new version of Firefox is fast, has strong features and it works fine on different operating systems which may help them registering their name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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