Mozilla has rolled out the release candidate for Firefox 3.0, bringing the open-source browser one step closer to its first major overhaul in nearly 19 months.
The appearance of Firefox Release Candidate 1 (RC1) came earlier than expected. As recently as last Saturday, Mozilla's chief engineer said that although the company had locked down RC1's code, it was planning to publicly launch the build in "late May."
Firefox RC1 is available now for download from Mozilla's servers, and is also being offered as an update to users running Firefox Beta 5, the final beta edition that shipped six weeks ago.
Even so, Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's interface designer, voiced the usual warning to ward off casual users. "The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback," he said in a post Friday evening to Mozilla's developer centre blog.
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