The Mozilla Foundation says it is still on track to release Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 sometime later this week despite the lack of a firm release date. Beta 4 will likely be the last test version before Mozilla moves on to the release candidate of Firefox 3.5. However, Mozilla has not made good on many of Firefox 3.5's deadlines: earlier this year, Mozilla delayed the release of Beta 3 -- twice -- before moving on to Beta 4, as well as dumping the name Firefox 3.1 for the snappier Firefox 3.5 to reflect the significant differences between versions 3.0 and 3.5.
Most of the previous delays stemmed from Firefox's new JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, which promises to speed up page loads two times faster than Firefox 3.0 and nine times faster than Firefox 2.0. At the moment, Beta 4 contains seven high-priority bugs requiring fixes, five of which involve the JavaScript engine.
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Most of the previous delays stemmed from Firefox's new JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, which promises to speed up page loads two times faster than Firefox 3.0 and nine times faster than Firefox 2.0. At the moment, Beta 4 contains seven high-priority bugs requiring fixes, five of which involve the JavaScript engine.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/163606/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws
