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Firefox 2.0 will draw its reverence December 17

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Firefox 2.0 will draw its reverence December 17

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Since the release of Firefox 3.0, the days of version 2.0 were counted. The Mozilla Foundation announced it will stop development of the latter next month

Here lies Firefox 2 (24 October 2006-17 December 2008). The lifespan of a Web browser is quite short. The existence of Firefox 2.0 is expected to be completed on 17 December 2008. This day that the Mozilla Foundation has chosen to discontinue the technical developments of what was for more than two years his favorite browser.

This announcement by the project manager, Mike Beltzner on the Mozilla site, comes six months after the band released in Firefox 3.0. To mark the spirits, the Mozilla Foundation had organized a vast competition globally to establish a world record downloads of Internet browsers in 24 hours. More than 8.3 million downloads were made in one day. Today approved by the Guinness Book of Records. As it stands, Firefox 2 is available in ... 2.0.0.18. 2.0.0.18.


Gecko 1.8, In Memoriam

An update was released on 12 November. Two thirds of Firefox users have already switched to Firefox 3.0, "said Mike Beltzner.

Last September, according to NetApplications.com, the market share of Firefox browsers on the Internet was 19.46% worldwide, as follows: 13.24% for Firefox 3.0, 5.79% for Firefox 2 , And the rest for the downgrade, 1.0 and 1.5.
On the sidelines of stopping the development of Firefox 2.0, Gecko 1.8 engine, the basis of Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2 will also be paused. A version 3 mail client open source Thunderbird is currently in cartons, without precise date.

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Re: Firefox 2.0 will draw its reverence December 17

Just wonderin is 3.0 out yet? Im really not sure what version im using lol but i love firefox.
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Just wonderin is 3.0 out yet? Im really not sure what version im using lol but i love firefox.
To know which version of Firefox you using click on help-> About Mozilla Firefox .
Download Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 /
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