Based on ZDNet, the Mozilla Project intends to ship an RC (release candidate) for edition 4.0 of its open source Firefox internet browser on or around 9 March. Up to now, there have been a total of 12 betas of Firefox four; the first of which was launched in July of last year, as well as the arrival of a release candidate (RC) will likely be a significant landmark for the project following quite a few delays which have inundated Firefox 4.0.

As soon as the developers happen to be in a position to fix any lingering hard blocker bugs, the Release Engineering squad will begin work on creating an RC (release candidate) build of Firefox 4. During the time of this posting, the CanWeShipYet.com website only lists a single hard blocker.

Firefox four is the non-profit firm’s next-generation web browser based on version 5.0 of the Gecko depiction platform (the Firefox 3.6 branch uses Gecko 1.9.2) and features a new Add-ons Manager and extension management API, in addition to a new tabs-on-top outline. In past month, the Mozilla Foundation inveterate that, following version four, it intends to release Firefox 5, 6 and 7 this year.

Once the Firefox 4 (ultimate version) is released, Mike Beltzner, the organization’s Director of Firefox, has inveterate that he is going to quit Mozilla to join an organization referred as DownUnder GeoSolutions, a small organization specializing in the field of 2D/3D seismic interpretation and other geological applications.

The newest stable release of Firefox is version 3.6.14, a safety update that addressed various decisive vulnerabilities, from March 1.