Mozilla has announced new details in its plan for Firefox 3 - the next major upgrade for its multi-user open source browser. Beta 1 of this browser is scheduled to be released in July 2007.

Mozilla accelerates Firefox 3 images 1 On mozilla.dev.planning forum, Mozilla vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer said, in April, May, and June, there will be Firefox 4, 5, 6 versions (Alpha 3 version) was published on March 27, 2007). As planned, the full beta 1 will be available to testers on July 31, 2007.

Mozilla said that the final version of Firefox 3 will be announced in the fourth quarter of 2007, there will be a completely renewed bookmark system, ID management tools, support off-line web applications. These redesigned bookmarks (called Places) will be 'released' in Alpha 5.

According to Net Applications' report in early April 2007, Firefox has 15.1% of the global browser market. Leading the way is Internet Explorer with 78.6% market share.