Firefox Gets 5th Beta, Final Code Release Delayed Until 2010

Firefox released a fifth beta (3.6 Beta 5) to testers on Thursday and pushed back the release date of final code until 2010 at the earliest. Mozilla still expects to have a release candidate out by the end of the year, according to Firefox director Mike Beltzner.

Beta 5 includes nearly 130 fixes from the last beta , which Mozilla released in late November. The fixes resolved numerous crash bugs, including a major crash problem in the Mac edition's TraceMonkey JavaScript rendering engine , and other bugs in Firefox's private browsing mode, the automatic password retrieval component and the fast startup module.

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