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Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early
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.)
Linking to a 5.4Mb file directly on Slashdot. Nice!
And I just finished emerging 1.5...
No fp!1!? I guess everyone's rushing to download it first. This proves my theory: FF > random /. memes.
The Firefox team are assured never to suffer 0-day exploits by making -1-day releases. Clever, clever...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
It beat itself to the internet!
Sweet move to link to the en-GB version. That's the flavour I like!
Related Links: "Compare prices on Mozilla"
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
And where is the /crack directory? I guess they put a serial in the nfo.
Heaven forbid you actually learn to spell words correctly! :)
Pfffttt, no thanks. Let me know when IceWeasel is ready.
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
Or else you'll end up doing your neighbour a favour by changing his tyre
To a different colour?
Summation 2
It's payback for Mozilla's actually trying to assert its trademark rights!
From the article, "Since its first release, back in November 1.0, the web browsers..." Apparently November 1.0 was a productive month for web browsers. I'd love to do November over again. November 2.0 here we come!
For the sake of Windows users, please don't ever link directly to an .exe hosted on someone else's website.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts.
Does the en-NZ version render all the text upside-down?
"Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on
For the sake of Dean Hachamovitch, IE7 general manager, please do not post any links to any Firefox executable on any platform.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Woo woo fake trolls!
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.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Maybe they'll do an extension to let the extension install after upgrading. Firefox: extensions extensions extensions!... and look! it also surfs the internet...
and even the memes look different!
Does the en-NZ version render all the text upside-down?
Only in the northern hemisphere.
For the sake of your own sanity due to jokes made about your name, change your name from "Hachamovitch".
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
This is a shameless attempt on the part of Mozilla to stave off the crushing mindshare defeat that Microsoft is about to hand out with Internet Explorer 7. With improved support for stuff and things, IE7 promposes to make Firefox 2 obsolete by nightfall on it's release date.
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.
You can make a difference. Donate to The LEEBY (Larry Ellison's Even Bigger Yacht) Fund.
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!!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Seems not even the spell checker will help you.
Some pr0n sites don't let me do wget, they want authentication and stuff like that :(
matar a un hombre no es defender una idea es matar a un hombre
So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?
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!
Doing a quick search of 'ham' on Amazon US/UK yeilds the following results:
American: top 6 results are for ham (normal)
UK: 3rd result is for Hardcore Eurhoria and the 5th result is for Concert For Banglades
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.
Thank you kind sir, I'm glad you noticed.
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
For some reason I internally pronounce it as "Gimpibyte", but I may have some issues I need to work out.
Yeah, in the British version of Firefox cookies are referred to as 'biscuits'.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com