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.)
I'll wait thanks (Score:2, Insightful)
pls wait 24 hours (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
Software Update (Score:3, Insightful)
word to this (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Re:Language (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Insightful)
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:2, Insightful)
Like you, I used to think disk manufacturers were behind this for the purpose of deception, but it turns out they've been correct all along (with a few exceptions, but we won't go into that here.)
When we enquire of a filesize, it's often to calculate how long it will take to travel a certain data link. Base 2 math is entirely irrelevant there, and it makes pure sense to treat Mega as meaning "one million, +/- zero".
Please don't fight it. It's important we make the distinction consistently so we can get out of this mess for once and for all. Regards, Ben.
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Re:PLEASE stop linking to unreleased builds (Score:3, Insightful)
HA HA HA (Score:4, Insightful)