No, really. Honestly Asa, give it up and go back to belittling Microsoft because IE6 doesn't protect its idiot users from spyware and e-mails from Ombonjo Riberjo from the Nigerian National Bank of Whogivesatoss.
"DL_INFO": Please don't jump ahead of an official announcement, alright?
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Copied & pasted from the arstechnica forum:
PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE BUILDS
Unlike the real Beta 1 release, the RCs for it are only intended for internal use, and are not mirrored. Thus widespread distribution of these links stands a good chance of DDOSing the poor Mozilla servers, which are only hosting these for internal testing.
Furthermore, we're already in the process of spinning RC2 builds with a half-dozen fixes.
We're hoping to get Beta 1 out this week; until then please just be patient and wait a few days longer, or else grab nightly releases if you must have something up-to-date.
Note that these release candidates will NOT properly auto-update to anything in the future.
John, that post was from earlier release candidates that all the stupid sites jump on. If you look at the link that was posted, the builds are in the release folder and an official announcement usually happens after the builds reach all mirrors...but beta 1 for firefox 2 is out.
FFX 2.0 Beta RC1 zinging, zooming, zipping along......just bloody hell have the closing X only appear on the active Tab and get cloured tabs integrated too whilst at it!
I know it's been said before that people shouldn't encourage downloading until the official announcement has been made. This way, the files can fully propagate through the FTP mirrors. Is it asking that much that people exhibit a little self-restraint?
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
Alright, you should post when your getting close to releasing it.
Posted by: Corey Farwell | July 11, 2006 10:43 PM
ANTICIPATION BUILDING.
No, really. Honestly Asa, give it up and go back to belittling Microsoft because IE6 doesn't protect its idiot users from spyware and e-mails from Ombonjo Riberjo from the Nigerian National Bank of Whogivesatoss.
Posted by: iheartboys | July 12, 2006 3:55 AM
Its out now, iheartboys
Posted by: Kurt | July 12, 2006 4:21 AM
Get it here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b1/
Posted by: DL_INFO | July 12, 2006 4:51 AM
Yeah really, My favorite Asa posts are the M$ rants. Can you bust their chops at least once per week?
Posted by: Biff | July 12, 2006 6:47 AM
"DL_INFO": Please don't jump ahead of an official announcement, alright?
(Copied from /.)
Copied & pasted from the arstechnica forum:
PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE BUILDS
Unlike the real Beta 1 release, the RCs for it are only intended for internal use, and are not mirrored. Thus widespread distribution of these links stands a good chance of DDOSing the poor Mozilla servers, which are only hosting these for internal testing.
Furthermore, we're already in the process of spinning RC2 builds with a half-dozen fixes.
We're hoping to get Beta 1 out this week; until then please just be patient and wait a few days longer, or else grab nightly releases if you must have something up-to-date.
Note that these release candidates will NOT properly auto-update to anything in the future.
Posted by: John Silvestri | July 12, 2006 7:10 AM
John, that post was from earlier release candidates that all the stupid sites jump on. If you look at the link that was posted, the builds are in the release folder and an official announcement usually happens after the builds reach all mirrors...but beta 1 for firefox 2 is out.
Posted by: Kurt | July 12, 2006 7:22 AM
FFX 2.0 Beta RC1 zinging, zooming, zipping along......just bloody hell have the closing X only appear on the active Tab and get cloured tabs integrated too whilst at it!
Posted by: sekerob | July 12, 2006 10:19 AM
Firefox 2 beta 1 is not released yet, or is at least not available through updating from Firefox2-alpha3.
Posted by: bram | July 12, 2006 10:23 AM
Kurt:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=10874
I know it's been said before that people shouldn't encourage downloading until the official announcement has been made. This way, the files can fully propagate through the FTP mirrors. Is it asking that much that people exhibit a little self-restraint?
Posted by: John Silvestri | July 12, 2006 10:31 AM
An excellent browser! Sure beats the other popular two.
Posted by: Internet News | July 16, 2006 8:08 AM