Firefox Leaving in 80% of Bugs for 3.0 Final Release

File this one in the "at least the company's being honest" department.

Mozilla announced earlier this week via its Web site that it is planning to fix only 20 percent of Firefox 3.0's known bugs before the latest version of the browser is released in its final version next year.

The company asked that developers prioritize the known bugs in the app, so it can get to those first. "We have 700 bugs currently marked as blockers," reads the company's note, according to The New York Times. "That's too many. We're asking [requiring] component owners to set priorities on blockers, as a first pass of what bugs should be Beta 2 blockers. You want it to be about 10% of blockers, or what you can get done in four weeks."

"Blockers" are bugs that are big enough to cause the company to postpone a release. The company is asking programmers to focus on bugs that will affect users on a daily basis.

The release is the third major version of the browser, and is already months behind schedule.