Firefox 3.5: Have They Fixed Your Bugs Yet?
Last November, more than 500 of you tested Firefox 3.1 beta as part of our first Bug Battle, finding over 200 bugs in the process (24% of which you deemed showstoppers). Well, in case you missed it, Mozilla recently announced the upcoming release of Firefox 3.5, saying they were scrapping the 3.1 version on account of – you guessed it – the number of bugs in this app. Here’s an excerpt from the story on TG Daily:
…Beta 4 is due for release on April 14, but that date is more of a guideline than a deadline given the number of remaining bugs — nearly 100 were found so far, at least three of which are still “Priority 1 Blockers” (serious bugs).
Fixing is “On Track” for the largest bugs, according to Mozilla and is focused on upgrade compatibility, performance and better controls for video.
Beta 3 is mostly a bug-fix release. However, according to the Mozilla Developer Center pages, Firefox 3.1 will be renamed to Firefox 3.5 after the Beta 3 release. The reason: Pure marketing on one side, and the substantial number of improvements as well as the large number of new features such as private browsing and the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine, on the other.
uTesters gave Firefox 3.1 beta great reviews after the last Bug Battle, and so I suspect 3.5 will have even more enthusiasts this time around. Can’t wait for the launch to think about testing the new version? Then be sure to check out Mozilla‘s QA page.
