Firefox 1.0 Set For September [View All]

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Currently In Beta

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday set September as the release date for its free open-source Firefox browser.

Firefox, which has been collecting accolades from users and analysts -- especially as recommendations mount to switch from Microsoft's vulnerability-plagued Internet Explorer -- is currently in beta, but is shooting for final by Sept. 14, said Mozilla's Ben Goodger in a revised roadmap posted to the organization's site.

“While we may slip past this, we want to set that date so that it gives us a near term goal to target,” Goodger wrote. A release candidate -- more than beta and a step closer to final -- will post next month, Goodger added.

Firefox is currently in beta version 0.9, which released last month, http://www.desktoppipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21700330 and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms.