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Now that Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are available to end users, the focus is bound to shift on Microsoft. The Redmond company has been cooking Internet Explorer 8 for over a year now, and is approximately one month away from releasing the second Beta build to the public. Since Beta 1 was set up to give web developers and designers a taste of what’s coming mainly in terms of standards support, Beta 2 is built to wow end users and, in this context, will deliver features beyond what is available in the first public development milestone, WebSlices and Activities.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to hit sometime in August, but although the IE team
is still hammering at the release, the fact is that as early as mid June 2008, features were no longer added to the milestone. On June 19, Chris Wilson, the Platform Architect for IE revealed that: “we’re still improving quality by fixing bugs in Beta 2, but we’re not implementing new features at this point for the Beta 2 release”.

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On June 17, 2008, Mozilla made available for download the final version of Firefox 3.0, applauding what it referred to as a redefining of the web experience and the “fastest, smartest, most powerful” Firefox browser ever released. Mozilla
managed to gather strong support from the open source community related to the launch of Firefox 3.0, and via the Download Day initiative, it now accounts for in excess of 6.5 million downloads of the browser. Concomitantly with the first downloads, the open source browser developer also went live with the Firefox 3.0 Release Notes.

Designed to provide end users an insight into the new features, functionality and capabilities of the browser, the release notes also describe the known issues associated with Firefox 3.0 Final. Users can also check the system requirements as well as information related to common tasks such as downloading, installing and uninstalling the latest iteration of Firefox. (more…)

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