Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today we are code complete for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New nightly builds are available - if you are a nightly tester/Minefield user you can help test these builds by selecting “Check for Updates” from your […]
As discussed at today’s Firefox 3 / Gecko 1.9 meeting, as of 11:59pm PDT tonight, the tree entered a lockdown period in preparation for delivering Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1.
We’ll be using the same process that has been used for the past betas. The blocker lists will be driven to zero, and only patches with […]
Please note: Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta.
Firefox 3 Beta 5 is now available […]
Earlier this morning we declared Beta 5 to be code complete and the Build Team began generating Firefox 3 Beta 5 Release Candidate builds, which the Quality Assurance Team has started testing. Those interested can monitor the progress of the Beta 5 Release, and all are invited to participate in the Beta 5 Test Day […]
As we near the release of Firefox 3, the AMO team would like to share the plan for supported application maxVersions for Firefox add-ons and themes. The current supported maxVersion is “3.0b5pre”.
Once Firefox 3 Beta 5 is released, “3.0b5″ will be added to the list and in order to support nightly builds, “3.0pre” will be […]
(Update: due to an unexpected service outage which interrupted some people, as well as the remaining number of P1 blockers, we’ve decided to delay the code freeze for the beta 5 baking period by 24 hours.)
After tonight’s freeze the code freeze on Wednesday, March 19th at 11:59pm PDT, we’ll be using the same process we […]
Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 4 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. This is the twelfth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes […]
At today’s Firefox 3 / Gecko 1.9 meeting the development team decided that a fifth beta milestone would be required based on the number of blockers remaining. This additional beta will ensure that changes which may affect website compatibility and changes which affect the user experience will get exposure to a wider audience for feedback […]
This morning at 11:15am PST the tree was handed to our Build Team for tagging, kicking off the Firefox 3 Beta 4 release process. It will stay closed as the team confirms that the tagging correctly picked up the required pieces to properly perform Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) builds, and re-open later today.
Last week all […]
To facilitate the triage we’re going to be doing this week for Fx3/1.9 we’ll be making some changes to various flags. There’s a few goals here:
* Identifying the set of bugs that will absolutely block the release of Firefox 3
* From those bugs, identify the set of bugs that we need to ship in a […]