After many months of testing, five beta versions and two release candidates, Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008. The 3.0.x branch was the major stable branch of Mozilla’s web browser for a long time, and it’s been updated to version 3.0.18 so far. Now, however, it reached the end of the line, as Mozilla’s development plans include only one more update for it.

The users who have moved on to the current stable branch, 3.6, are probably wondering what we’re talking about, but many users still use the 3.0.x version; with this move Mozilla is indicating that it wants these users to upgrade, too.

Mozilla has recently been more aggressive about upgrades, reminding users of old versions of Firefox that an upgrade is available. They’re right: The latest stable version of Firefox (3.6) has been around for several months now, and in most cases there’s no reason to stick to the old branch.

Tags: Firefox 3.0, mozilla, web browsers

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