Firefox 3.0 Final Coming June 17th
The final release date for Firefox 3.0 is June 17th! Don’t forget to visit SpreadFirefox and join in for the world record attempt. According to Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 has been in active development for 34 months. Firefox is a fantastic product, and I am very grateful to Mozilla and the open-source community for creating it. But 34 months strikes me as a bit ridiculous. I’d expect an entire operating system could be written in less time.
I should add a footnote to this post. Firefox 2.0 was released in October of 2006. That means that despite the reported 34-month development period for Firefox 3.0, it has not been nearly that long since version 2.0 was released.
Firefox 3.0 is out in final form today!
Firefox 3 is a huge success worldwide. Version 3.0.1 was released on July 16, 2008.