Mozilla Pulls Release Candidate of Firefox 3 Beta

By Ed Oswald | Published November 8, 2007, 11:47 AM

A posting on the popular social news networking website Digg Wednesday morning caused Mozilla to pull the release candidate of its first beta of Firefox 3 from its servers.

On Digg, the release was reported as the first official release of Firefox 3 Beta 1, which it was not. This caused a problem for Mozilla since the release had not been properly checked by quality assurance nor had it followed the steps necessary for the beta release.

Additionally, being on the social news site obviously posed a bandwidth issue as the location where the builds were located was not equipped to handle the extra traffic that Digg would have provided.

Mozilla explained that the reason they put their release candidates online is due to the fact that they are open sources. All builds, whether they are ready for public consumption or not, are placed on the company's servers for review.

In the meantime, users wishing to get the builds will now have to do so via FTP, as access to the files via HTTP has been turned off. "We've done this to protect our own bandwidth, and also to limit the distribution of what's essentially an unfinished product," Mozilla said.

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"Mozilla Pulls Release Candidate of Firefox 3 Beta"
"A posting on the popular social news networking website Digg Wednesday morning caused Mozilla to pull the release candidate of its first beta of Firefox 3 from its servers."

Betanews is being just as bad as Digg in spreading crappy information: Your title and introduction clearly mention that a bbeta version has been pulled when the first sentence of your article says the opposite!!!!

Are you just looking to spice up your headlines to the detriment of information?

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What are you talking about? Betanews is consistent in saying it's a Release Candidate of Firefox 3 Beta.

Maybe you should go back to Digg. I think you'd like it better there.

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Nah, he's right, look at the page title.

They're hoping for more hits by mentioning "Firefox 3 Beta".

Comparatively, they (press) all do it, so it ain't that bad, but my ideals and my estimation of their integrity still cringe every time they (BetaNews) do it....

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I still don't see it. Maybe it's just because I don't dream about Firefox 3 every night, but I look at the title, read the article, and I see exactly what I would expect to see: a story about Mozilla pulling the Release Candidate of Firefox 3 Beta (and the reasoning behind it).

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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

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Never underestimate the power of just one stupid person.

Example: George W. Bush

LOL

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Ya know what's funny? We gave him that power. So did congress. Everyone forgets that all of this was voted for and approved by landslides.

Sure, now the mainstream media and a many of the more "popular" democrats are trying to convince folks they didn't, but you can't change history.

Which goes back to my quote above...

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What takes you again to:

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

As you voted him... AGAIN!

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Good plan. Any users who should have access to that build will also know how to use FTP.

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WTG Digg. At some point the site itself must be held responsible for the traffic and news it reports.

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Digg users = geniuses

I can't stand that site anymore. It's become lazy-stupid-people central.

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No problem. They just reported on the software that will wipe Digg off the face of the internet.

http://money.cnn.com/mag...?postversion=2007110712

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ROFL. I saw that too. Digg was the first thing that came to mind.

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wow what an interesting story

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