Firefox 6 Final Available for Download on August 16, 2011

Firefox 6 is almost finalized, with Mozilla now gearing up to release the successor of Firefox 5 to the general public in less than a week. 

In fact, if no bugs, including regression issues, will be identified, Firefox 6 Final could be made available for download in as little as five days. 

Firefox 6 continues to be in Beta development stage at the time of this article, and will remain here for rest of this week. 

Mozilla launched no less than five Refresh Builds of Firefox 6 Beta, with the last such testing release shipped to early adopters on August 5, 2011. 

Firefox 6 Beta Refresh 5 was labeled the Release Candidate (RC) Build for all the right reasons it appears, since Mozilla is now confirming the final release for August 16. 

“Beta [6] is done. We pushed out the final Beta build last Friday and are spinning up release builds now. At the last minute, we took two very safe fixes for two very serious dataloss bugs on Android. If this works out, and no problems are found, we’ll be shipping Firefox 6 on Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android next Tuesday, 2011-08-16,” the open source browser vendor stated. 

Considering the fact that Firefox 6 Beta Refresh 5 is also the RC or the last Beta of Firefox 5’s successor, this is THE Build to try by testers looking to see what the final version will look and feel like. 

End users might want to wait until August 16 in order to download the final version of Firefox 6. Of course, I’ll make sure to provide an update when Firefox 6 Final becomes available for download next week, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled on. 

Meanwhile, Firefox 6 RC is available for download and testing.

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