It appears Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is now expected at some stage this week. Nightly builds of the browser now include the RC1 tag, suggesting that we will see a release some time this week.
Current early Windows builds weigh in at 7.6MB and run on Windows 2000 all the way up to Windows 7.
On the outside, the browser doesn’t appear too different from Beta 4, but there are plenty of bug fixes that have gone in under the hood. “Even before shipping the RC, we’ve managed to find a number of issues that needed fixing,” said Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox.
The final 3.5 release is still expected before the end of the month, and we will let you know as soon as the release candidate is released.