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December 17, 2007
Firefox 3 Beta 2
If all goes well we will release Firefox 3 Beta 2 this week, just a month after Beta 1. Beta 2 includes about 900 bug fixes. The fixes include 34 performance improvements, 32 memory leak fixes, 11 improvements to memory footprint, 51 crash fixes, 59 improvements to places, 48 improvements to the javascript engine, and too many other improvements to do justice in this blog post. Things like the awesomebar:
You might remember an article in mid November reporting that 80% of the 700 Firefox 3 blocker bugs would not be fixed. Since that article was written we've fixed over 800 bugs in total. Beta2 contains fixes for 448 blockers and we've got another 200 bugs fixed and ready for Beta3. In short, despite some sensational and inaccurate headlines you might have read - Firefox 3 is going to rock.
The Mozilla community has been working overtime to make Firefox 3 easier to use, faster, and use less memory than previous versions. Firefox 3 includes tons of improvements specifically requested by web developers. More on this to come - but I wanted to make sure that it is clear: we are committed to releasing a version of Firefox that is the best yet. Try the awesomebar in Beta2 for a few days and see if you can go back to Firefox 2. I know I can't.
P.S. Thanks to Alex Faaborg from whom I adapted the use of Exhibit for the icon set to use here visualize bugs fixed in Beta2.
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