The release of Firefox 3.0 has been a resounding success, but for some the upgrade path has been less than painless. The latest version of the open source browser differed enough from previous versions that many add-ons had to be substantially rewritten before they would work with the new release. And just when the dust appeared to be clearing, Firefox 3.1 is on the horizon.

Don't worry. If you weathered the transition to Firefox 3.0 (possibly with the help of some clever hacks along the way), you needn't expect a repeat performance when Firefox 3.1 arrives in late 2008 or early 2009. "In fact," says Mozilla developer Mark Finkle, "I'd go out on a limb and say updating to Firefox 3.1 will be easy."

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