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Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early
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kdawson
on Mon Oct 23, 2006 04:50 PM
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A number of readers alerted us to the [link removed] day-early [accidental] posting of Firefox version 2.0. At this writing the top page at mozilla.com still doesn't mention its availability. One reader pointed us to [link removed] a mirror and another recommended a comprehensive review of Firefox 2.0, with many screenshots, over at mozillalinks.org. Update by RM: - links above removed at request of Mozilla release people. They asked us to link to this note instead. They're only asking us to wait until Tuesday Afternoon (U.S. Pacific Time) for the official 2.0 download, which isn't long. (Patience is a virtue, etc.)
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Many readers wrote in to make sure we all knew that Firefox 2.0 has officially been released on Mozilla.com, unlike yesterday's early preview. Here are builds for all languages and Win/Linux/Mac, and the release notes.
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Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
I smell a conspiracy (Score:5, Funny)
BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ [mozilla.org]
(2.0 is not there yet, but use that link when it gets updated)
Unofficial torrents (Website ads are NSFW):
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891929/Firefox_2_0_
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)
(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
Seems not even the spell checker will help you.
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:4, Funny)
So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
(http://membled.com/)
OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Informative)
Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @05:30PM)
Given this track record, what would it take for Slashdot to do a little checking the next time someone submits a "Firefox X released!" story?
HA HA HA (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 29 2006, @06:44PM)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/)
A filesize has lots of reasons to be measured in power-of-two quantities. If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes and which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.
(The SI guys can take a hike. The computer industry has been using kilo, mega, etc for powers-of-two since they got away from decimal computers almost 50 years ago now. It was the disk drive marketing guys who started pre-empting that so that they could advertise their eg 95.37 MB drives as 100 MB.)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Funny)
(http://127.31.33.7/)
It's people like you who cause entire space missions to fail. "Mega" has meant a power of TEN for much longer than "the computer industry." Besides, computers are used outside the computer industry these days.
Get with the times an learn the difference between Mi M Ki K Gi G B b etc..
Any decent engineer would loathe ambiguity. You think "mega" should mean different things depending on context? What are you, a Perl programmer?!? DEMONS BE GONE!!
Damnit! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Damnit! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://quantumvista.com/)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
300 Memes Crushed in Sri Lana Tsunami! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://anticirc.coconia.net/)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll wait thanks (Score:4, Informative)
http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/11/looking-at-ftp-sites
http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/04/looking-at-ftp-sites
What is amazing is that Slashdot seems to do this with every release. What kind of editors we have here?
Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 13 2004, @11:20AM)
Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:5, Funny)
Language (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.xenu.net/)
Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.google.com/)
I'll upgrade if (Score:4, Interesting)
2) it finally has a sensible cookie blocking interface, à-la Mozilla, and not that atrocious settings tab that I have to scroll through to find the site I just blocked cookies from that I need to re-enable.
Otherwise the current 1.x version works well enough for me.
Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/)
To a different colour?
Funny Related Links (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.geocities.com/theLICC)
Which release group gets credit? (Score:5, Funny)
Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:5, Interesting)
One note - the timeout is set to 500ms, which is not too long (especially when the entire slashdot visits wiki). To make it longer, open firefox_install_dir\components\nsSearchSuggestion
--Yurik / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik [wikipedia.org]
Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:4, Informative)
md5sums (Score:5, Informative)
dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz
don't think there's been that many changes
Ill wait (Score:4, Funny)
pls wait 24 hours (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.bluesweb.org/)
word to this (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Monday January 19 2004, @01:01PM)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ [mozilla.com]
and
http://www.getfirefox.com/ [getfirefox.com]
and
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ [mozilla.com]
all only say Firefox 1.5. Come f-ing on, slashdot, after having jumped the gun several times on freebsd [slashdot.org]. do they really need emails from everyone that produces software saying "only announce things when they're really announced" before checking a single website or two to see if something's officially out?