In
an interview with Reuters, Mozilla Vice President of Engineering Mike
Schroepfer has at last revealed Mozilla's expected time frame for the launch of
the final Firefox 3.0 release: late June.
A fourth beta
version of the browser came out earlier this month, and we know a beta 5
release is expected in a week or two. Schroepfer says the fifth beta will
include tune-ups to the browser's look and feel as well as further stability
improvements. After that, Firefox 3 will most likely hit the release candidate
stage, at which point Mozilla will continue to iron out bugs until it deems the
browser ready for a mainstream launch. Mozilla's website currently warns
that Firefox 3 betas are intended for developers and testers only, but Mozilla
reportedly plans to revise the site and remove that warning.