FireFox 2.0 Alpha Due Next Month (Link)

An alpha version of Firefox 2.0 should be released as a public beta next month. Although part of the long standing roadmap for the open source browser, the timetable was confirmed by the publication of the minutes of the Mozilla.org staff meeting held earlier this month.

While the team say that the alpha will not be feature complete, among the improvements slated to appear are better access to History and Bookmark pages, improvements to the tabbed browsing and other user interface enhancements. The team also hopes to fully integrate RSS functionality so that adding feeds is a smoother process than the current rather hit or miss method.

Mozilla website showed the following roadmap for FireFox (this is, as always, subject to change):

FireFox 2.0a: To be released Q1 2006 (pre-feature complete alpha)
FireFox 2.0b: To be released early Q2 2006 (feature complete beta)
FireFox 2.0rc(s): To be released late Q2 2006
FireFox 2.0: To be released late Q2/early Q3 2006 (Final Release)
FireFox 3.0: Earliest release Q1 2007

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