Firefox 4.0 Download?

While browsing the Mozilla FTP, I came across a nightly of Firefox 4.0. This seemed odd since Firefox 3.0 hasn’t reached RC1 yet, but this is not unusual. After doing some research, I came across a post by Ben Hearsum, saying that this is not actually Firefox-4.0a1pre, but actionmonkey and mozilla-central basic Mozilla rev 2 infrastructure builds. The latest Firefox 2 is rev 1.8.1.12, and Firefox 3 is rev 1.9b4, while the Firefox 4.0a1pre is rev 2.0a1pre.

Firefox 3.0 is not even out of beta, latest nightly is Firefox-3.0b5, and the devs at Mozilla are well on their way to giving us Firefox 4.0, the first in what is sure to become a long series of releases.

Firefox-4.0a1pre Minefield can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-actionmonkey/

So is this firefox 4.0? Who cares, it’s the latest nightly build, so grab it, and check out how your sites get rendered. Oh, and if you wonder why it is called Minefield, it is because it’s not stable enough to earn the Firefox logo yet. You’ll notice that the “bomb” icon is just the earth globe, but without the “fire fox” encircling it.