The fifth beta of Firefox is nearly here by what my nightly trunk builds tell me. Why is that you ask? Well, take a look at this:
What that boring little image above tells you, if you follow the blue arrow, that there is no longer any "b5pre" tacked onto the end of "3.0". Also, by what the schedule says on the Releases/Firefox 3.0b5 page, they’re already baking up the first of the release candidates so my prediction is that we’ll see Firefox 3 beta 5 within the next 4 to 5 days.
I can tell by my experience with the nightly builds over the last few months that the developers are pouring all their effort and experience into this browser and the results so far have been nothing short of amazing.
By the way, unless they change it at the last minute, "Home" now has a yellow roof.
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That’s strange. I’m running exactly the same version [downloaded today] and I have a blue navigation button and Home has a blue roof. Do I need to get the painters in already?
Posted 27 Mar 2008 at 4:27 pm ¶Grandad,
And I bet you’re running Vista, yes? Firefox 3’s UI is OS sensitive and changes accordingly. And if you’re still on XP like I am, then somebody’s having a good laugh at our expense.
I know there’s a joke to be found in having a “blue roof” but my mind refuses to give it up.
Posted 27 Mar 2008 at 5:28 pm ¶Looking forward to the update .. though I’m still waiting for a bunch of extension writers to catch up with the updates ..
Posted 28 Mar 2008 at 12:57 pm ¶Hi Owen and welcome,
The extension authors seem to be about 3 steps behind the beta releases so no worries there. The only ones that won’t be are what I call the “dinosaur” extensions that haven’t been updated for over a year or so already.
Of course there’s still folks running Firefox 1.5 on Win98 too.
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