A week after releasing its tenth beta of Firefox 4, the open-source browser project's release manager, Christian Legnitto this week announced a new beta plan, which will include a 12th beta.
Previously Legnitto had written that there were no plans for a beta 12 for Mozilla's the next major desktop Web browser.
Beta 11 is finished, and the Firefox planning page on the Mozilla wiki states that the team is "still working on an ETA for releasing it to our beta audience, likely early next week." That page also mentions Beta 12 as having "a small enough list of bugs that it's plausible it will be the last beta, though we're not locking that up, since some of the plugin work needs to crystallize before we can assess timing risk."
Many of the holdbacks seem to be related to Flash and Hotmail. Beta versions of Firefox come with a reporting plug-in that lets testers send comments to the developers. The comments are viewable at the Firefox Input Dashboard page, and nearly 3,700 of these have to do with Hotmail constantly refreshing. Over 1,800 mention Flash, but many involved problems with basic browser functions, such as the new Panorama tab-previewing feature, copy and paste, and password saving.
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