Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early 564
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.)
Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
Damnit! (Score:5, Funny)
Huh? (Score:1, Funny)
So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:4, Funny)
I smell a conspiracy (Score:5, Funny)
Language (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Funny Related Links (Score:5, Funny)
Which release group gets credit? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
Ill wait (Score:4, Funny)
Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
To a different colour?
Payback! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Language (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
November! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I smell a conspiracy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For the sake of non-Windows users (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Its not a day early (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:For the sake of non-Windows users (Score:5, Funny)
300 Memes Crushed in Sri Lana Tsunami! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hmm... [Re:I'll upgrade if] (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm posting from the new browser (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Its not a day early (Score:5, Funny)
Only in the northern hemisphere.
Re:For the sake of non-Windows users (Score:3, Funny)
IE7 Makes Firefox Irrelevant (Score:5, Funny)
IE7 will ship with the patented Cure For Cancer toolbar and embedded network optimization that makes tastefully photographed adult literature download 50% percent faster than with the dinosaur browser.
And that's not all. MS didn't forget about you developers. IE7's javascript debugger provides error messages that are 83% more ambiguous than with Firefox.
It's a well known fact that FireFox's only real market growth is in the UK where people hate fire, but like foxes. Therefore, Firefox can only achieve 50% marketshare in the UK maximum. Elsewhere in the world where fire and foxes are both despised, the Firefox market is limited to people who like dinosaurs which is just 10 year old boys named Kyle.
Just kidding.
Firefox Rules.
Re:Funny Related Links (Score:2, Funny)
"Racism from $1"
I still wonder what they meant...
Re:Language (Score:3, Funny)
Can't find a Debian version... odd!
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Funny)
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!!
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
Seems not even the spell checker will help you.
Re:I'll upgrade if (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:4, Funny)
So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?
Re:Damnit! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:PLEASE stop linking to unreleased builds (Score:3, Funny)
So clearly the FF team couldn't have just magically propagated the builds to all the mirrors, because the Internet isn't a big truck that you can just dump something on. Clearly, the tubes can get filled and delayed, so they wanted to get the files up early. Holy shit man, even Sen. Stevens understands this!
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:2, Funny)
American [amazon.com]: top 6 results are for ham (normal)
UK [amazon.co.uk]: 3rd result is for Hardcore Eurhoria [amazon.co.uk] and the 5th result is for Concert For Banglades [amazon.co.uk]
I have no idea what ham means over there, but ham is definitely more perverted and kinky over there than over here in the states.
Re:Huh? (Score:1, Funny)
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot meme community when an Anonymous Coward confirmed that meme comment share has dropped yet again, now down to a complete absence of First Posts. Memes are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by meme-less discussion in the recent Firefox 2.0 release comments.
You don't need to be a moderator to predict the future of
The *BSD meme is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core posters. The obvious lack of a *BSD meme in these meme-referencing posts only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: the *BSD meme is dying.
All major surveys show that memes have steadily declined in comment share. Memes are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If memes are to survive at all it will be among posts referencing their death. Memes continue to decay. Nothing short of a miraculous barrage of dupes and old news could save memes from their fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, memes are dead.
Fact: memes are dying
Re:Can somebody please tell me... (Score:3, Funny)
I also wanted to note that people don't know enough about me and my life outside the Mozilla foundation.
My name is Farouk Bakoh, a Solicitor/Notary public, and very active in the legal practice in Nigeria. I am also an in-law to the late President, General Sanni Abacha. Now General Abacha is dead, and Mohammed the first son is facing a lot of persecution due to his involvement in anti pro democracy activities during the rule of his late father. Also there are alleged fraud activities that Mohamed has been linked to with the father and, the government of today is after the family to recover everything. They have claimed all the family's wealth and I am making this contact on behalf of my sister, Mrs. Miriam Abacha, the wife, not minding the consequences, but hoping that you would understand our predicament hence the need for your urgent assistance and co-operation.
My aim of contacting you is to crave your indulgence to assist us in securing some funds, abroad for safe keeping which incidentally is part of the family wealth. Fortunately with my immediate assistance, and contact, we were able to deposit the money in a security vault abroad pending when the whole situation will be calm. However, this security company does not have any knowledge of the content of the deposit, because it was done in the guise that the trunk contains precious stones. But owing the great risk we run presently due the new Democratic government's initiative to freeze and recover all monies supposedly misappropriated by the late President, we wish to relocate this fund in a foreigner's name to avoid any trace. Now that we are in a democratic government, this is our opportunity to remove the money, and we are willing to offer you 15% of the funds after the transaction for your co-operation. All I need from you is an assurance that you can handle the amount involved comfortably and that I can also trust you with this very arrangement.
Be rest assured that there is no risk involved since I have taken care of everything. I want you to immediately inform me of your willingness in assisting and co-operating with us, so that I can send you full details of this transaction and let us make arrangement for a meeting and discuss at length on how to transfer this funds. Also furnish me with your private e-mail address, Tel/Fax Numbers (Private) for a personal contact with you. Finally, I am trusting on your full understanding on this, hoping that there will be absolute confidentiality.
Awaiting with interest your response and hoping to develop good business relationship with you.
Yours sincerely,
Farouk Bakoh
--cbeard@mozilla.org
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)