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Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early

Posted by kdawson on Mon Oct 23, 2006 04:50 PM
from the let's-slashdot-mozilla dept.

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.)

[+] firefox, mozilla (tagging beta)

Nice! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @04:52PM (#16552584)

Linking to a 5.4Mb file directly on Slashdot. Nice!
- I smell a conspiracy (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by ZakuSage (874456) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:54PM (#16552634)
  
  from the let's-slashdot-mozilla dept.
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:I smell a conspiracy by Lucan Varo (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @05:30PM
    - Re:I smell a conspiracy by FST777 (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @06:59PM
      - Re:I smell a conspiracy by naylor83 (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:07AM
        Re:I smell a conspiracy by Gr8Apes (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:52AM
    - 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
  - This News Just IN: by buswolley (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:32PM
  - BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
    
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @05:51PM (#16553320)
    
    Official Mozilla BitTorrent site:
    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_F inal_EN_US [torrentspy.com]
    http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_GB [torrentspy.com]
    (The first link is US version, second is GB version)
    
    (posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)
    
    [ Parent ]
    - Re:BitTorrent links by jbrader (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:18PM
      - Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
        
        by WilliamSChips (793741) <full.infinity@NOsPam.gmail.com> on Monday October 23 2006, @07:22PM (#16554294)
        (Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
        
        The new Firefox has a spell checker(one of the first things I disabled). There are spelling differences between US and UK English.
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        Re:BitTorrent links by jbrader (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:56PM
        
        Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
        
        by kennygraham (894697) on Monday October 23 2006, @08:32PM (#16554840)
        
        Oh yeah I actually new that. I like the spellchecker because I can think like a college grad but I spell like a 4 year old.
        
        Seems not even the spell checker will help you.
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        Re:BitTorrent links by benplaut (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:43AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by Forge (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @09:25PM
        Re:BitTorrent links by jbrader (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:05PM
        Re:BitTorrent links by needacoolnickname (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @10:47PM
        Re:BitTorrent links by Mike89 (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:30AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by shokk (Score:2) Thursday October 26 2006, @10:26AM
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        Re:BitTorrent links by thue (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:58AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by Dreadzone (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:18AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by Dreadzone (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:54AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by saintlupus (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:58AM
        Crashed or stalled three times by G3ckoG33k (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:55AM
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      - Re:BitTorrent links by jZnat (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @07:59PM
      - Re:BitTorrent links by Meatloaf Surprise (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:28PM
        
        Re:BitTorrent links (Score:4, Funny)
        
        by 1u3hr (530656) on Monday October 23 2006, @09:52PM (#16555362)
        
        The American one searches the normal Amazon and Yahoo
        So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        Re:BitTorrent links by Meatloaf Surprise (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:35PM
        Re:BitTorrent links by jbrader (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:13PM
        Re:BitTorrent links by 1u3hr (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:04AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by Arancaytar (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:09AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by commanderfoxtrot (Score:2) Wednesday October 25 2006, @04:23AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by gameforge (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:48AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by Arancaytar (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @03:09AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by gameforge (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:20PM
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      - Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
        
        by Ed Avis (5917) <ed@membled.com> on Tuesday October 24 2006, @04:31AM (#16556962)
        (http://membled.com/)
        
        Yeah, in the British version of Firefox cookies are referred to as 'biscuits'.
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        note to new readers by petermgreen (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:40AM
        Re:note to new readers by sydb (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:29AM
        Re:note to new readers by Ed Avis (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:54AM
        Re:BitTorrent links by joshsnow (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:04AM
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    - Re:BitTorrent links by carlmenezes (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:52PM
    - Re:BitTorrent links by suv4x4 (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @09:17PM
      - Re:BitTorrent links by ben there... (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:03PM
    - Re:BitTorrent links by AkumaKuruma (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @11:41AM
    - Re:BitTorrent links by chickenandporn (Score:1) Friday October 27 2006, @07:37PM
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  - Re:I smell a conspiracy by WhiteSpade (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:03PM
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- Payback! by BeeBeard (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @05:07PM
- OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @06:17PM (#16553570)
  
  Firefox 2 has not yet been officially released. Please be patient. We still plan on launching Tuesday, October 24th in the afternoon pacific time. Linking to anything other than getfirefox.com [getfirefox.com] or mozilla.com [mozilla.com] hurts us, our volunteer mirror network, and our ability to effectively serve up and guarantee availability of Firefox. Thank you! -- cbeard@mozilla.org
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by Plutonite (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @07:00PM
    - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by jonasj (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @07:22PM
      - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:4, Insightful)
        
        by TCM (130219) on Monday October 23 2006, @08:21PM (#16554738)
        
        Obviously, mirrors should get different access than the public. You can't put something in plain sight and then complain if people notice. This is stupid.
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by Phroggy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:37AM
        Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by bitserf (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @06:17AM
        Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by Nimey (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @11:46AM
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        Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by Anc (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:05PM
      - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by Plutonite (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @08:26PM
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  - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Insightful)
    
    by Kelson (129150) * on Monday October 23 2006, @08:29PM (#16554802)
    (http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @05:30PM)
    
    And yet, somehow, it seems like with every Firefox release, someone decides to link Slashdot straight to an FTP site before they've finished pushing everything out. Firefox 2 beta 2 [slashdot.org], Firefox 2 beta 1 [slashdot.org]... I'm sure you can find more, but I don't feel like searching further.
    
    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?
    
    [ Parent ]
    - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by T-Ranger (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:45PM
    - HA HA HA (Score:4, Insightful)
      
      by Nimey (114278) on Monday October 23 2006, @09:28PM (#16555186)
      (http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 29 2006, @06:44PM)
      
      The /. editors will never live up to their job titles. They usually don't read the links themselves.
      
      [ Parent ]
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  - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by FireFury03 (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @06:37AM
  - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by c0d3h4x0r (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:33AM
  - Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT by thegrott (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:37AM
  - Re:Can somebody please tell me... by Kelson (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:19PM
    - Re:Can somebody please tell me... by Anonymous Coward (Score:3) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:33AM
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- Re:Nice! by Sillygates (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @06:38PM
  - Re:Nice! by Teun (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:59PM
- Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by WilliamSChips (793741) <full.infinity@NOsPam.gmail.com> on Monday October 23 2006, @06:01PM (#16553422)
  (Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
  
  There is no such thing as a mebibyte. A megabyte is always 1048576 bytes. You also never use megabits when referring to file sizes, only when referring to the speed of a network connection. A megabit is 1000000 bits but it's rarely seen not per second.
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by dotgain (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @06:24PM
    - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Insightful)
      
      by AJWM (19027) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:57PM (#16554052)
      (http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/)
      
      a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.
      
      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.)
      
      [ Parent ]
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by dotgain (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:08PM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Jherek Carnelian (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @07:26PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by edwdig (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:51PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by edwdig (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:57AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Jherek Carnelian (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @03:13PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Jherek Carnelian (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @04:03PM
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      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Funny)
        
        by Lord Ender (156273) on Monday October 23 2006, @08:32PM (#16554838)
        (http://127.31.33.7/)
        
        (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.)
        
        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!!
        
        [ Parent ]
        
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by toddestan (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:12PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by slamb (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:12PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by quizzicus (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:04AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by arose (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:49AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Anonymous Coward (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @04:14AM
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        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by toddestan (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @11:37PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by slamb (Score:2) Wednesday October 25 2006, @11:23AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by IHateAllofYou (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @10:12PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Joey7F (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:27PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by AaronPSU777 (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @10:40PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by xant (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:39AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Lord Ender (Score:3) Tuesday October 24 2006, @09:44AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by xant (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @09:58AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Lord Ender (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:03PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by after fallout (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:52PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by WilliamSChips (Score:2) Wednesday October 25 2006, @05:54AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Lord Ender (Score:2) Wednesday October 25 2006, @12:00PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Phroggy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:22AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Anonymous Brave Guy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:30AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by WilliamSChips (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:51AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by meringuoid (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @06:25AM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by suv4x4 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:31PM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Jetekus (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:03AM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by taobill (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:44AM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by WilliamSChips (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:24PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by WilliamSChips (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:14AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by dotgain (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:59AM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by WilliamSChips (Score:2) Wednesday October 25 2006, @05:52AM
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      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Propaganda13 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:27PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by mabinogi (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:27AM
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    - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by UncleFluffy (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @09:07PM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Limburgher (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:05PM
        Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by UncleFluffy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:36PM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by UncleFluffy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:12PM
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    - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by FST777 (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @07:02PM
      - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by Maïdjeurtam (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:52PM
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  - Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by taobill (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @09:41AM
- Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by suv4x4 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:11PM
- Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb by taobill (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:52AM
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Damnit! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @04:52PM (#16552594)

And I just finished emerging 1.5...
- Re:Damnit! (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by Virtex (2914) on Monday October 23 2006, @10:14PM (#16555484)
  (http://quantumvista.com/)
  
  And I just finished emerging 1.5...
  Yeah, me too. And the worst part is that I started emerging 1.5 right after it came out!
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:Damnit! by LittleBigLui (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:59AM
- Re:Damnit! by burndive (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:03PM
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Huh? by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @04:53PM
- Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by eln (21727) * on Monday October 23 2006, @04:57PM (#16552674)
  
  I, for one, welcome our new meme-crushing overlords.
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
    
    by LordEd (840443) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:11PM (#16552866)
    
    In soviet Russia, memes crush you!
    
    [ Parent ]
    - 300 Memes Crushed in Sri Lana Tsunami! (Score:4, Funny)
      
      by BeeBeard (999187) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:51PM (#16553316)
      
      Woo woo fake trolls!
      
      [ Parent ]
    - I'm posting from the new browser by Plutonite (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:10PM
      - Re:I'm posting from the new browser by scotch (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:31PM
      - Silly by StoatBringer (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:36AM
    - Re:Huh? by isny (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @07:09PM
    - Re:Huh? by TheVelvetFlamebait (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @07:28PM
    - Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @11:41PM
  - Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by jpardey (569633) <<moc.liamtoh> <ta> <yedrap_j>> on Monday October 23 2006, @05:11PM (#16552878)
    
    1) crush meme 2) ? 3) profit!
    
    [ Parent ]
  - Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
    
    by WilliamSChips (793741) <full.infinity@NOsPam.gmail.com> on Monday October 23 2006, @05:15PM (#16552926)
    (Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
    
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of memes...
    
    [ Parent ]
    - Re:Huh? by AntEater (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @08:50PM
      - Re:Huh? by AntEater (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @09:00PM
    - Re:Huh? by Kenshin (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:32PM
  - Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by Stormwatch (703920) <rodrigogirao&hotmail,com> on Monday October 23 2006, @05:16PM (#16552928)
    (http://anticirc.coconia.net/)
    
    Stop crushing the memes, you insensitive clod!
    
    [ Parent ]
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  - Re:Huh? by cunina (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:23PM
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  - Re:Huh? by alx5000 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:25PM
  - Re:Huh? by ezberry (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:28PM
  - Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by Werkhaus (549466) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:33PM (#16553140)
    
    OMG!!! Memes!!!!
    
    [ Parent ]
    - Re:Huh? by FST777 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:06PM
    - Meme != teen blog thing by CarpetShark (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:26AM
    - Re:Huh? by Stavr0 (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:27AM
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  - Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
    
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @05:44PM (#16553240)
    
    Won't anyone think about the memes?
    
    [ Parent ]
  - Re:Huh? by Phroggy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:29AM
    - Re:Huh? by LittleBigLui (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @06:02AM
  - Re:Huh? by rizole (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:05AM
    - Re:Huh? by Bwerf (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @06:49AM
  - Re:Huh? by WilliamSChips (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:46AM
  - 1st by Neurotoxic666 (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:35AM
  - Re:Huh? by codered82 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:08PM
    - Re:Huh? by Vr6dub (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @08:42AM
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- Re:Huh? by zacronos (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @10:22PM
  - Re:Huh? by Rellik66 (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @10:58PM
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So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)

by Rosco P. Coltrane (209368) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:53PM (#16552608)

The Firefox team are assured never to suffer 0-day exploits by making -1-day releases. Clever, clever...
- Re:So that's how they do it by gardyloo (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @05:00PM
  - Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
    
    by gardyloo (512791) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:53PM (#16553344)
    
    Is this some sort of "There are only -3 types of people" joke?
    
    [ Parent ]
    - Re:So that's how they do it by Phroggy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:32AM
    - Re:So that's how they do it by Anonymous Brave Guy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:32AM
    - Re:So that's how they do it by el_womble (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @03:33AM
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- Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by acidrain (35064) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:27PM (#16553058)
  
  They could also be the first to have a -1 day exploit, which would look even worse.
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:So that's how they do it by dan828 (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @07:04PM
  - Re:So that's how they do it by jimmypw (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @07:32PM
  - Re:So that's how they do it by Hoch (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @08:41PM
  - Re:So that's how they do it by Firehed (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:21PM
  - Re:So that's how they do it by dextromulous (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @10:47PM
    - Re:So that's how they do it by dextromulous (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @10:44AM
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  - Re:So that's how they do it by dextromulous (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @10:53PM
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- Re:So that's how they do it by WillAffleckUW (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:52PM
- Re:So that's how they do it by quizzicus (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:07AM
I'll wait thanks by ronanbear (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @04:54PM
- Re:I'll wait thanks by drinkypoo (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:56PM
- Re:I'll wait thanks (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by dvice_null (981029) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:00PM (#16553410)
  
  It's not officially released. Slashdot could do more harm than good by releasing these news early. See these responses what harm it does for releasing news before official release:
  http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/11/looking-at-ftp-sites- for-mozilla-releases/ [ilias.ca]
  http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/04/looking-at-ftp-sites- for-mozilla-releases-part-ii/ [ilias.ca]
  
  What is amazing is that Slashdot seems to do this with every release. What kind of editors we have here?
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:I'll wait thanks by drinkypoo (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:22PM
    - Re:I'll wait thanks by bunratty (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:39PM
      - Re:I'll wait thanks by drinkypoo (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @11:12AM
Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:4, Funny)

by PrintError (708568) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:54PM (#16552618)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 13 2004, @11:20AM)

It beat itself to the internet!
- Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @07:04PM (#16554110)
  
  I must be the super fastest then. I beat myself to the internet every day.
  
  [ Parent ]
- Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... by suv4x4 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:34PM
- Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... by sorennielsen (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @06:06AM
Language (Score:4, Funny)

by ostehaps (929761) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:55PM (#16552638)

Sweet move to link to the en-GB version. That's the flavour I like!
- Re:Language by Mr. Sketch (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @05:00PM
  - Re:Language by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:14PM
  - Re:Language by Kangburra (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @06:31PM
    - Re:Language by Saint Stephen (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:29PM
- Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by Xemu (50595) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:16PM (#16552932)
  (http://www.xenu.net/)
  
  Why not use bittorrent for it's best legal use: downloading firefox! [thepiratebay.org]
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:Language by Jugalator (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:56PM
    - Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
      
      by The Raven (30575) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:47PM (#16553934)
      (http://www.google.com/)
      
      To support Firefox. Why should I take the Mozilla Org's expensive bandwidth when I can torrent it, and use the mostly free bandwidth of 100 other peers.
      
      [ Parent ]
      - Re:Language by jZnat (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:02PM
      - Re:Language by suv4x4 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:40PM
      - Why? by Almahtar (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:28AM
    - Re:Language by Braino420 (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:47AM
  - Re:Language by YoungHack (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:27PM
- Re:Language by sho222 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:29PM
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So much for the soft launch. by drapeau06 (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @04:57PM
Link to the Windows app by Bob_Geldof (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @04:57PM
- Re:Link to the Windows app by FnH (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:08PM
I'll upgrade if (Score:4, Interesting)

by Rosco P. Coltrane (209368) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:58PM (#16552700)

1) it quits crashing all the time with the mplayer plugin when playing videos

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:I'll upgrade if by Crazy Man on Fire (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:05PM
  - Re:I'll upgrade if by Crazy Man on Fire (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:08PM
    - Hmm... [Re:I'll upgrade if] by Cl1mh4224rd (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:25PM
      - Re:Hmm... [Re:I'll upgrade if] by damiam (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:40PM
        Re:Hmm... [Re:I'll upgrade if] by Cl1mh4224rd (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:47PM
        Re:Hmm... [Re:I'll upgrade if] by charlieman (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:06PM
        Re:Hmm... [Re:I'll upgrade if] by ESqVIP (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @06:53PM
        Re:Hmm... [Re:I'll upgrade if] by mrchaotica (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @11:31PM
- Re:I'll upgrade if by FudRucker (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:34PM
  - 1 reply beneath your current threshold.
- Re:I'll upgrade if by josath (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:38PM
  - Re:I'll upgrade if by kalakala (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @09:37PM
    - Re:I'll upgrade if by syukton (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @03:56AM
- Re:I'll upgrade if by ben there... (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:55PM
  - Re:I'll upgrade if by Rosco P. Coltrane (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:51PM
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As pointed out in MY story submission... by Spokehedz (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @04:59PM
- Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by eipgam (945201) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:04PM (#16552772)
  
  Heaven forbid you actually learn to spell words correctly! :)
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... by Spokehedz (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:18PM
  - Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... by Bill, Shooter of Bul (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:14PM
- Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Rik Sweeney (471717) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:06PM (#16552804)
  (http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/)
  
  Or else you'll end up doing your neighbour a favour by changing his tyre
  
  To a different colour?
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... by finkployd (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:22PM
- Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... by AugustZephyr (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @06:54PM
- Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... by suv4x4 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:05PM
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Funny Related Links (Score:5, Funny)

by Amazing Quantum Man (458715) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:59PM (#16552720)
(http://www.geocities.com/theLICC)

Related Links: "Compare prices on Mozilla"
- Re:Funny Related Links by ggy (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:30PM
  - Re:Funny Related Links by Zwicky (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @05:50AM
- Re:Funny Related Links by maxume (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @07:58PM
Which release group gets credit? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @04:59PM (#16552724)

And where is the /crack directory? I guess they put a serial in the nfo.
- Re:Which release group gets credit? by WilliamSChips (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:17PM
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Ubuntu Edgy by Rik Sweeney (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:02PM
- Re:Ubuntu Edgy by nbehary (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:28PM
- Re:Ubuntu Edgy by Red Alastor (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @05:30PM
- Re:Ubuntu Edgy by c_forq (Score:3) Monday October 23 2006, @05:40PM
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    - Re:Ubuntu Edgy by c_forq (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:12PM
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- Re:Ubuntu Edgy by cloudmaster (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:35PM
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Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:5, Interesting)

by yurik (160101) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:03PM (#16552768)

There is now Firefox 2 support enabled on all Wiki*edia sites. To use, navigate to http://en.wikipedia.org/ [wikipedia.org] (or any other language/project), click the search engine selector button in the upper right corner, and click "add wikipedia". The added bonus is that auto-suggest is also working - as you type you search, it will provide a list of page titles that begin with the typed letters.

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\nsSearchSuggestions .js, and edit the "_suggestionTimeout: 500" line. Something like 2000 works fine for me.

--Yurik / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik [wikipedia.org]
- Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added by ender81b (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:19PM
  - Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:4, Informative)
    
    by c_forq (924234) <forquerc+slash@gmail.com> on Monday October 23 2006, @05:43PM (#16553234)
    
    It has been changed to 'wp $something' by default for a while now, but it is super easy to change to wiki (also as of a couple versions back the default 'dict $something' changed from reference.com to answers.com).
    
    [ Parent ]
    - Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added by Monkey-Man2000 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:16PM
  - Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added by shellbeach (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @07:10PM
- Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added by AxelBoldt (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:47PM
  - In Fx 2.0 RC3, Ctrl+F goes into textareas by tepples (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:04PM
    - Re:In Fx 2.0 RC3, Ctrl+F goes into textareas by drinkypoo (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:30PM
      - Re:In Fx 2.0 RC3, Ctrl+F goes into textareas by tepples (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @10:50AM
        Re:In Fx 2.0 RC3, Ctrl+F goes into textareas by drinkypoo (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @12:28PM
    - Re:In Fx 2.0 RC3, Ctrl+F goes into textareas by Arancaytar (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:25AM
- Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added by eyal (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:48PM
- 2 replies beneath your current threshold.
Difference between 2.0 RC3 and 2.0 final? by BeeBeard (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:04PM
- Re:Difference between 2.0 RC3 and 2.0 final? by aitan (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:07PM
  - Re:Difference between 2.0 RC3 and 2.0 final? by Amazing Quantum Man (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:46PM
- md5sums (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by jonasj (538692) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:17PM (#16553576)
  
  dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0.tar.gz
  dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz
  
  don't think there's been that many changes :-)
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:md5sums by BeeBeard (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:28PM
  - no more md5 for me. by Bill, Shooter of Bul (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:23PM
    - Re:no more md5 for me. by ProfFalcon (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:25PM
      - Re:no more md5 for me. by Bill, Shooter of Bul (Score:2) Wednesday October 25 2006, @12:04AM
  - Re:md5sums by quantum bit (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:49PM
    - Re:md5sums by nephridium (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @01:28AM
    - Re:md5sums by Phroggy (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @02:45AM
  - Re:md5sums by dcam (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:05AM
    - Re:md5sums by Loconut1389 (Score:1) Tuesday October 24 2006, @06:21PM
      - Re:md5sums by stu42j (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @09:29PM
      - Re:md5sums by dcam (Score:2) Wednesday October 25 2006, @10:28PM
        Re:md5sums by Loconut1389 (Score:1) Thursday October 26 2006, @11:55AM
        Re:md5sums by jonasj (Score:2) Friday October 27 2006, @04:14AM
        Re:md5sums by Loconut1389 (Score:1) Friday October 27 2006, @07:47AM
        Re:md5sums by dcam (Score:2) Friday October 27 2006, @09:13AM
- Re:Difference between 2.0 RC3 and 2.0 final? by Gandalf_the_Beardy (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @06:46PM
  - Re:Difference between 2.0 RC3 and 2.0 final? by bunratty (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @08:52PM
Ill wait (Score:4, Funny)

by Blackbrain (94923) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:04PM (#16552778)

Pfffttt, no thanks. Let me know when IceWeasel is ready.
- Re:Ill wait by Threni (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @05:23PM
- Re:Ill wait by drinkypoo (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @06:32PM
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/. needs to update by Com2Kid (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:06PM
pls wait 24 hours (Score:5, Insightful)

by jhermans (108300) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:06PM (#16552800)
(http://www.bluesweb.org/)

For crying out loud ! Can't we just leave those Mozilla folks alone for a day, so that they can prepare the release. They have to post 38 different executables, and do a very last check to see if they actually work.
- word to this (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by thdexter (239625) <dexter@suffusio[ ]net ['ns.' in gap]> on Monday October 23 2006, @05:30PM (#16553104)
  (Last Journal: Monday January 19 2004, @01:01PM)
  
  At this writing,
  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?
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:word to this by ZachPruckowski (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:58PM
  - Re:word to this by Skater (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @06:09PM
  - Re:word to this by drew (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @10:25AM
- Re:pls wait 24 hours by snero3 (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @10:42PM
- Re:pls wait 24 hours by pla (Score:2) Tuesday October 24 2006, @07:05AM
English US Version by KermodeBear (Score:2) Monday October 23 2006, @05:07PM
- Re:English US Version by Alcari (Score:1) Monday October 23 2006, @06:11PM
  - Re:English US Ve

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