Firefox 3 Release Candidate is available for download!

[Mike Beltzner]

* follow-up / reply-to: mozilla.dev.planning or dev-planning at lists.mozilla.org

[Please note: The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview  
release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It  
includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance,  
memory usage and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes  
and known issues before installing this release.]

The first Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download.  
This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided  
by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox  
3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3  
Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on  
irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.

New features and changes in this milestone:

    * Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback,  
including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP,  
Mac OS X and Linux.
    * Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar  
autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others,  
based on feedback from our community.
    * Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security,  
web compatibility and stability.
    * Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript  
engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve  
performance over previous releases as measured by the popular  
SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like  
Google Mail and Zoho Office.

You can find out more about all of these features in the “What’s New”  
section of the release notes.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.0rc1/releasenotes

Testers can download the Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for  
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages from:

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-rc.html

Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on  
the Mozilla Developer Center:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_3_for_developers

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Note: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we  
strongly encourage you to link to this Firefox 3 Release Candidate  
announcement so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what  
they should expect, and who should be downloading to participate in  
testing at this stage of development:

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/05/16/firefox-3-release-candidate-now-available-for-download/
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