Mozilla is prepping to ship the final version of its new Firefox 4 browser as soon as next week. Competitive pressures from Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 and Google's steady stream of Chrome updates appear to be driving the push to finish Firefox 4 and avoid losing more browser market share.
Mozilla only launched its Firefox 4 release candidate for Windows, Mac and Linux last week, giving testers little time to evaluate the product, which is available in more than 70 languages. However, Damon Sicore, director of platform engineering, said Firefox 4 RC1 received a very warm welcome and the time had come for Mozilla to make a decision to ship.
Though Mozilla hadn't made a final decision on the March 22 ship date, "as of now, there are no known issues that would stop us from shipping RC1 as final," Sicore wrote in a developer community forum. "If at any time we discover issues that would block final release, we would issue an RC2 as soon as possible, reset the ship date, and communicate to everyone."
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