Mozilla to release first Firefox 3.1 preview Friday

Jul 23rd, 2008 | By Rosh PR | Category: Software

Mozilla Corp. today set Friday as the ship date for the first preview edition of Firefox 3.1, the fast-track update it hopes to polish off by late this year or early in 2009.

In a meeting Tuesday, Mozilla developers and managers nailed down details of Firefox 3.1, including the release date for the first alpha. Previously, Mozilla had tentatively scheduled the alpha for sometime this month.

The new Ctrl-Tab presentation and behavior — on the latter front, pressing Ctrl-Tab switches between current and last-viewed tabs rather than simply moving to the next tab to the right — was, like many of the features slated for Firefox 3.1, originally meant to be included with Firefox 3.0.

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