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Mozilla has pushed back the planned Firefox 4 release to 2011, a delay that’s no surprise given the difficulties in releasing the first full-featured beta of the open-source browser–but that also gives breathing room for several competitors. Mozilla had hoped to release Firefox 4 in 2010, but a newly updated Firefox 4 schedule shows the [...]

Mozilla nudged Firefox 3.6.4 one step closer to its official release by pushing out the first release candidate version of the browser, while Weave Sync gets re-branded as Firefox Sync in anticipation of its eventual inclusion in the browser. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Firefox 3.6.4 Release Candidate 1 began rolling out to Firefox [...]

The latest version of Mozilla’s e-mail client is just about ready for public use, as the software publisher releases the first release candidate for Thunderbird 3.1, codenamed Lanikai. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Thunderbird 3.1 RC 1 makes few changes to from the previous Thunderbird beta. The new quick filter bar has added contact, [...]

Mozilla hopes to release the final version of Firefox 3.6 later this month and a stability-improving update code-named Lorentz by March as part of a revised updating strategy. Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s director of Firefox, said Tuesday that he’s pleased so far with his scrutiny of test data from the more than 1 million people using [...]

Mozilla has released its first release candidate, RC1, for Firefox 3.6. The new version includes Personas, which lets people customize the browser’s appearance; blocks third-party software from encroaching on its file system turf to increase stability; and perhaps most significantly given the competitive threat from Google Chrome, shortens start-up time and improves responsiveness and JavaScript [...]

Mozilla has finished its second release candidate for its first mobile Firefox browser. Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s open-source Maemo platform can’t be far behind. In addition to fixing “a major performance issue” plaguing the Nokia N900, Mozilla has also updated the latest version of the Gecko layout engine. By using the same version of Gecko [...]