Barring more bugs, Firefox Beta 2 will release Thursday, Mozilla Corp. developers reported after a weekly status meeting held Tuesday.
"We are on target to release Thursday, Aug. 31st assuming no stop-ship items are discovered," the meeting"s online minutes read.
Beta 2 has been delayed several times to give developers more time to quash bugs in the browser.
Mozilla also said that users running earlier previews of Firefox 2.0 -- including any of the three alpha editions as well as Beta 1 -- will be automatically updated to Beta 2, using the software"s built-in update mechanism. Previously, users had to download the full installation package to refresh their browsers.