Firefox 4 final version coming March 22

By Aemon Malone Published March 16, 2011

Barring the discovery of any major bugs, Mozilla will make available the final version of its Firefox 4 Web browser on March 22, according to a message posted in Mozilla’s developer forum.

“Firefox 4 RC1 has received a very warm welcome; it’s time to make a decision to ship,” Mozilla’s Damon Sicore wrote. “As of now, there are no known issues that would stop us from shipping RC1 as final … March 22nd is the day we would ship.”

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Mozilla announced last week that it had pushed live the release candidate (RC1) of the browser, marking the final stage of testing before a final public release. One glitch with Java was reported, but Mozilla decided that it wasn’t significant enough to push back the release. If Mozilla does discover a major bug, the March 22 release date will be pushed back, the problem will be addressed and a second RC will be released.

Firefox 4 will bring wider support for HTML5, a much-talked-about “do not track” privacy feature and a new design.

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