Firefox 4 release date set

[HunkyLuke]

Mozilla announced it will be releasing the final version of Firefox 4 on 22 March 2011, barring any nasty bugs in their final tests.

Firefox 4 RC1 has received a very warm welcome; it's time to make a decision to ship. As of now, there are no known issues that would stop us from shipping RC1 as final. At the conclusion of our regular 11:30AM triage session on Wednesday, March 16th, release drivers will decide whether to ship RC1 as Firefox 4.

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,

And good news to XP users, Mozilla execs took the opportunity to point out that Firefox 4 DOES indeed support Windows XP, unlike Microsoft's own Internet Explorer 9 which was released yesterday!

[rawTOP]

FF4 RC2 is working great! I highly recommend it...

[chrisjoseph]

using the FF4 RC as well and it is working great!

[asiaboy]

I am getting a bit frustrated by all these browsers, especially when using the new streaming video tag, which requires conversion to different formats, MP4, OGV, WebM, who can keep track of it all?

[HunkyLuke]

Yeah I know what you mean, browsers are going in different directions...and it used to be that you could rely on flash but I just read yesterday that Adobe is caving to Apple too, since Apple refused to include flash support on its iPhones:

Last week Adobe Systems released Wallaby -- an experimental new drag-and-drop tool for developers that converts Flash files into HTML5.

More info on Wallaby is at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

[B2BwithJoeD]

I guess I will accept that Firefox upgrade invitation ;-)