RSSMozilla posts Firefox 3.5 RC1, announcement expected
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published June 16, 2009, 6:23 PM
The announcement has not yet been publicly made, but Mozilla posted a fresh build of Firefox 3.5 on its servers that it is officially calling Release Candidate 1. Not just "Release Candidate," which implies that a second round is indeed possible.
After a security run-in following some unrelated tests, we've found ourselves having to reset and restart our test platforms, so our usual round of Betanews performance tests is forthcoming. Also expect the latest numbers from the Opera 10 beta, which now includes provisions for the Unite browser-based server feature.
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC1 for Linux from Fileforum now.
After updating to RC1, if you look at your Help-About, you see FF calling itself "Firefox 3.5", no RC mentioned at all. Typical FF cheat, glossing over reality to make things look better. I remember when FF set up a benchmarks scam to make itself look faster. I use FF anyway, although the best browser remains K-Meleon, no doubt about it. IE8 is very very nice, but too many of its add-ons are add-on$$$.
Firefox never pretended to be a "community" browser. It always openly admitted it was in it for the money, even when it was FireBIRD. There was a naive bunch of ardent IE-haters who exaggerated a nonexistent Firefox-for-the-General-Good that worked very much to FF's favour, right from Day One. But FF never endorsed them. FF was always ragged around the edges, but it steered clean of that, and so its business stance can't be criticized. Nice if it "admitted" RC1 status, but I know why it's not doing it.
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|Sir, i really wish you forgot to add the /sarcasm tag at the end of your post.
And i didn't know that you had to pay 20000$ buying FF. o_O i got it for free
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|@AOI, I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but Firefox, like most browsers and like Google, does not make its money by selling its platform. The money is in facilitating advertising. This is the same reason so many websites and freeware apps want your patronage. Advertising essentially runs the internet.
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|I guess this explains why Adblock is the most popular Firefox Add-on...
Anyway - What's your point? What's your manifesto got to do with the RC? Is it a bizarre bug report.
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|"Help-About, you see FF calling itself "Firefox 3.5", no RC mentioned at all. Typical FF cheat, glossing over reality to make things look better."
You're just confused about software development Sylvia. A "release candidate" is a build of the software that, if nothing new and bad turns up, WILL BECOME the actual release. A real "release candidate" should be bit for bit the same thing as the final release UNLESS something turns up that needs fixing.
All true release candidates have the final branding and version information or they wouldn't be release candidates, they'd be betas or something else.
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|Let's see. I was quite shocked at the amount of crashes and bugs in the preview (only using maybe 2 add ons). They must have worked like crazy to get this to a reasonable release status...
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|No crashes or bugs in the preview here....
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|What addons were you using? Which OS? 32-bit or 64-bit? That would be useful information.
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|Could be one or both of those two extensions that you do have installed. I'm running with 18 extensions, some of which had to be version bumped via Nightly Tester Tools, and not a single crash with the preview. Possibility #2 -- something else on your system is clashing. Hopefully you'll have a better time with this release candidate.
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|Just how messed up ur add-ons can be?
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|Lets see. No problems here with 65 extensions on Vista64, MCE2005, & XP Pro.
You must have worked like crazy to have problems with Fx.
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|Wow... This is why i love Mozilla Firefox the most: They admit the browser can b faulty and release patch asap, not like a certain company who likes to gloss over their mistakes and make extravagant claims.
Thumbs up for Mozilla team.
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|Opera?
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|Safari?
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|You, sir, has a WINRAR.
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|I'm not surprised. When I ran the update on the nightly build Monday morning, a few minutes later there was another build being downloaded. It seems like they've got answers to quite a few bugs recently.
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|This may or may not be the RC. This happens every time Mozilla gets close to a release, and BetaNews never, ever, learns.
CANDIDATE builds for RC1 are on Mozilla's FTP servers. These are being tested internally first for showstoppers (1 bug has already been fixed and a new build seeded since this article went up). On Friday, if everything goes well, RC1 will be released.
You should wait for the browser to actually be released before announcing it. People are now downloading awkward in-between version browsers.
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|Glonk: Good advice, and that appears to have already happened here on Wednesday. I too was going to just wait for the officially distributed build to avoid installing something that has to be re-issued. The browser's self-update found it a few minutes ago.
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|BetaNews does this all the time with Mozilla products ... some people never learn.
See: http://weblogs.mozillazi...2006/03/releases_1.html
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