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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.)
It's not on software update either yet. I think I'll wait until firefox wants to upgrade and then I'll do one last check that all my extensions have been updated.
the more they over-think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the pipe
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.
Why not use bittorrent for it's best legal use: downloading firefox!
Tell your friends about xenu.net
I really wish it was out on Software Update already. That, in my opinion, was the best new feature in Firefox 1.5, and many more software programs should adopt it.
At this writing,
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
and
http://www.getfirefox.com/
and
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
all only say Firefox 1.5. Come f-ing on, slashdot, after having jumped the gun several times on freebsd. 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?
I'm on a road shaped like a figure eight; I'm going nowhere but I'm guaranteed to be late.
Well, why do? The regular links are both direct, as opposed to BT, and clearly functional.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
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.
"I will trust Google to 'do no evil' until the founders no longer run it." Hello Alphabet.
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.)
-- Alastair
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.
With all the Americans making fun of the word "colour" and the non-Americans wanting their version of English to remain pure, forcing either locale is just a flamewar waiting to happen.
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
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.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
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, Firefox 2 beta 1... 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?
The problem is that it takes finite (and nontrivial) time to propagate the builds to all the mirrors. Otherwise there'd be no problem putting them up at the same time as the release announcement.
The /. editors will never live up to their job titles. They usually don't read the links themselves.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
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