The team over at Mozilla are hoping to have the RC2 build candidate for Firefox 3 ready by Friday. While this won’t be a RC2 Final release, it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
According to Carsten Book the RC2 update will include some additional patches and localization updates. Outside of that details are scarce.
I could care less, but Facebook launched their GoogleTalk clone chat utility the other day. And apparently, just like GoogleTalk you can run it in the sidebar in Firefox. Woot.
The upside to this is now you can chat with all your friends without having to open up Facebook, and you’ll be free to browse other websites while chatting.
To add the Facebook chat to your Firefox sidebar, press Ctrl+Shift+B to bring up the Bookmarks Organizer.
Go to Organize -> New Bookmark and type the following address: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
Also mark the box that says “Load this bookmark in the sidebar”.
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Mozilla announced that Beta 5 will be the last beta for Firefox 3, the next release will be Release Candidate 1 (RC1) which should be out in early May. Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering also noted that they are currently on-track for a June release of Firefox 3.0 Final.
Firefox holds a 17.83% market share according to Net Applications latest report, with Internet Explorer taking 74.80%, and Apple’s Safari trailing with just 5.82%. Both Firefox and Safari have seen significant gains in market share over the past 6 months, while Internet Explorer has seen a nearly 4% decrease in market share since October 2007.
When Firefox 3.0 hits final, I believe it will have a very postitive effect on Firefox’s market share.
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What is wrong with you people? Why aren’t more of you using Firefox?! Granted it’s a pretty close race, but I’d really like to see Firefox take the lead.
Sound off in the comments, let me know what browser you’re using and why.
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