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Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the unleash-the-upgrades dept.

Barence noted that Firefox has announced release candidate 2 of their highly popular web browser. You can read the release notes while you download. And since my copy just finished downloading, I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any

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  1. Retroactively screwed up? by qwertphobia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, the update retroactively screwed up the story submission? That's slick!

    I was just thinking, I will have just upgraded by the time I am done reading this po

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    1. Re:Retroactively screwed up? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh lord you don't get the joke at all. The point is that he just

    2. Re:Retroactively screwed up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Candlejack isn't even present in this threa

    3. Re:Retroactively screwed up? by harry666t · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not funny anymore, how many times can you see people making the same joke again and again in a single thread?

      Stop it here, ple

    4. Re:Retroactively screwed up? by S.O.B. · · Score: 5, Funny

      OK, you're taking it to f

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    5. Re:Retroactively screwed up? by lilomar · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't ge

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    6. Re:Retroactively screwed up? by thegnu · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Find typo in story on /.
      2. Repeat lame joke ad nauseum.
      3. ????? 4.Profi
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  2. fill in the blanks by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any Taco wants us to complete his post. My suggestions:

    I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any weasels in my trousers.

    I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any eels in my hovercraft.

    I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any embarrassing mistakes visible to the entire world, or at least as much of the world as comes here when bored.
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    1. Re:fill in the blanks by GPado · · Score: 5, Funny

      I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any motherfucking snakes on my motherfucking plane.

  3. Re:Old Look? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firefox 2.0 Classic theme works great but to use it you have to:
    -Register and log in to Firefox Addons
    -Attempt to override the version check and install the theme
    -Go to your %appdata% just after it fails and look for the temp XPI that it downloaded
    -Copy it to the desktop and extract it with winrar
    -Change the RDF file's <maxversion> to * or 3.0RC2 or something
    -Zip the files back up, normal compression, rename to xpi
    -Drag the file off the desktop into your firefox window to install!

  4. Re:Crash by bunratty · · Score: 5, Informative

    This link may help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes

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  5. Until they bother fixing critical bugs... by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..that have been around for years such as this one:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853

    Then I won't hold my breath for this release to me any more reliable or stable than any other from the last N years. Its about time they stopped doing a Microsoft and dicking about with "coooo , its so preeetty" UI stuff and bloatware functionalty that no one needs and starting fixing bloody bugs!

    Yeah mod me down fanboys, see if I care, I'm just a user ,what do I know.

  6. Who cares! by Kamineko · · Score: 5, Funny

    None of us have any, you insensitive clod!

  7. Sudden end!?!? by that_itch_kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope I don't have any ...any what!?!? Memory leaks!?!? Fried CPUs!!? WHAT!?!? OH GOD, IT'S TAKEN HIM!! IT'S GOING TO KILL US ALL!!!
  8. Re:Actual Release Notes by Victor+Antolini · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can always check out http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ It's not quite up to date right now but it's great for keeping track of development. He maintains this list which may be helpful: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/trunk-for-firefox-3.html

  9. Re:Read this by Darlo888 · · Score: 5, Informative

    And when you do that for the Mozilla page, "this website does not supply identification information", which proves that this feature is a complete waste of programming time. If the website doesn't supply the information then there's nothing to verify to make yourself more secure. That's because it only works for encrypted connections.
  10. Re:Momory Issues? by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Funny

    To clarify Mozilla's position on the matter:

    1. There were no memory leaks in Firefox 2, and
    2. These leaks have been fixed in Firefox 3.

    Thank you for your understanding. :)

  11. Home page has RC link... by rklrkl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember the good-old days when Mozilla (and Firefox) release notes actually talked about bugs fixed, features introduced, and interesting things? When each version actually informed you about what had changed? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/releasenotes/ seems fairly reasonable to me. Granted, the differences between RC1 and RC2 aren't flagged (because virtually nothing but some blocker bugs were the changes between the two), but they *did* flag "Improved in Beta 5" in the equivalent Beta 5 release notes.

    Going to mozilla.org (or .com) and trying to find betas is now impossible. No, really... there are no links to non-release versions. Oh come on! How hard did you bother reading the home page? What's New on the right hand side has a "Firefox 3 Sneak Peak" link for goodness' sake! And even if you drifted to mozilla.org's home page instead, guess what? Developer News on the right hand side announces the RC2 release as I speak. You sir, are either one lazy so-and-so or just a total troll!

    I miss the time when Mozilla was a user-friendly organization, when everything was public and *easy to find*. I miss the time when people actually made the effort to check the current state of Web sites before slagging them off. Everything related to Mozilla (bar a few closed security bugs, which are opened once the fix is published) is very public and trivially easy to find. It's a shame that some people just don't think before they post.