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.)

Comments

Nice!

[Anonymous Coward]

Linking to a 5.4Mb file directly on Slashdot. Nice!

Damnit!

[Anonymous Coward]

And I just finished emerging 1.5...

So that's how they do it

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

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

[acidrain]

They could also be the first to have a -1 day exploit, which would look even worse.

Re:So that's how they do it

[gardyloo]

Is this some sort of "There are only -3 types of people" joke?

Which release group gets credit?

[Anonymous Coward]

And where is the /crack directory? I guess they put a serial in the nfo.

Re:As pointed out in MY story submission...

[eipgam]

Heaven forbid you actually learn to spell words correctly! :)

Re:Huh?

[jpardey]

1) crush meme 2) ? 3) profit!

Re:Huh?

[Stormwatch]

Stop crushing the memes, you insensitive clod!

Re:Huh?

[Werkhaus]

OMG!!! Memes!!!!

Re:Its not a day early

[Tumbleweed]

Does the en-NZ version render all the text upside-down?

Only in the northern hemisphere.

IE7 Makes Firefox Irrelevant

[thelifter]

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.

Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast...

[Anonymous Coward]

I must be the super fastest then. I beat myself to the internet every day.

Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb

[Lord Ender]

(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!!

Re:BitTorrent links

[kennygraham]

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.

Re:BitTorrent links

[Ed Avis]

Yeah, in the British version of Firefox cookies are referred to as 'biscuits'.