Mozilla has released today the Major Update allowing Firefox 2.0.0.18 users to upgrade to Firefox 3.0.4.  Users should be offered the upgrade option in the next couple days. Alternatively, users can also get the update by selecting the Check For Updates option via the Help menu. Either way, users will be presented with a prompt similar to this: Later: Firefox will ask again in 24 hours Never: Decline the upgrade offer.  You may get another offer again in the future, but it won’t be for several weeks or months Get the new version: Upgrades to Firefox 3.0.4 As a reminder,…

As we await for the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 (schedule for sometime this month), comes talk that there may be a Beta 3 release. According to this article from Linux World: Previous schedules published by Mozilla had limited Firefox 3.1 to only two betas before moving to a release candidate. In a long post to the “mozilla.dev.planning” forum, Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, said that Beta 3 is necessary to get a feel for the severity of the remaining bugs and an idea of how long it will take developers to eradicate them. In addition, another beta…