Firefox Bugs Could Force Second Release Candidate

By Greg McNevin

May 29, 2008: The planned single release candidate for Firefox 3.0 could find itself with a successor after all, with Mozilla considering a second release candidate after ten significant bugs surfaced in the first.

Eight cross-platform and two linux-specific creepy crawlies have been identified so far, however, while four have been dubbed ‘critical’ so far it appears that critical translates to ‘browser-crashing’ rather than ‘severe security risk’.

“The QA team is still doing directed testing and we are collecting feedback on RC1,” wrote Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer, in a post on Mozilla's developer forum. “We've been triaging the bugs and so far have 10 bugs that look of the highest priority.

“We are going to approve these to land on trunk so we can get regression and nightly testing on them. If we need to do an RC2 they'll be ready to go - if we ship RC1 we can get them in the 3.0.1.”

Schroepfer added that a decision on whether or not RC2 is needed will be made next Tuesday. The full release of the increasingly popular open source browser is still expected to be sometime in June.

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