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Firefox 2.0 alpha release uploaded
by Ted Wallingford Mar 19th 2006 at 4:41PM
For the
download-obsessed, unquenchable binary junky, there may be nothing more tantalizing than the avant gard, freshly
squeezed, and oozing-with-promise alpha version. Two steps from actual stable release and
fresh from the programmer's build tool, alpha versions of software tend to be like Swiss cheese--very, very delicious
but with a few holes. Such is the case with the alpha version of Firefox 2.0, the latest iteration of the venerable open source web browser, which was uploaded today for Mac, Windows, and Linux. You can grab it from the official Firefox repository, if you think you can swallow an alpha version. Of course, if you're just curious about trying Firefox and you'd prefer a stable release, the current release version is 1.5. You can get that from the official Firefox site.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris Dolan said 10:35PM on 3-19-2006
You jumped the gun. According to Asa Dotzler, the QA leader for the Mozilla corp, the alpha is not yet ready (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/03/releases_1.html).
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Tom said 12:06AM on 3-20-2006
Well, it may not be 'ready', but whatever it is that I just downloaded, it's FAST (the Windows version, haven't tried the Mac build yet). Of course, I've only had it running for about 10 minutes, I'm sure there are lots and lots of bugs to be found, but it seems stable enough to me at the moment to be a viable alpha release.
If you notice the download location for this build, it's buried pretty deep in Mozilla's FTP server, so it probably isn't meant for public consumption yet. So if it destroys my computer, don't worry Mozilla, I won't come crying to you, it's my own fault.
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William said 12:44AM on 3-20-2006
i've been running this since saturday and its unbelievable how much faster this is than any other browser i've ever used. cant wait for the final version!
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Geoff said 1:06AM on 3-20-2006
I dunno... Flock seems to render pages faster on my machine than FF2. Maybe the final version will make me switch back to FireFox.
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Papuass said 3:33AM on 3-20-2006
Comment 2: Author has really jumped the gun. Mozilla buils new releases every night, called nigtly builds. This is another one, just very close to two point zero alpha hence the name, user agent, version strings are already changed.
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Liski said 5:37PM on 3-20-2006
I'm having trouble removing the Alpha - it keeps giving me errors!
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Warrick said 1:17AM on 3-21-2006
I installed it for 12 minute, saw that none of my extensions worked, tried to uninstall it; that didn't work, tried to manually uninstall it, that deleted the REAL Firefox, then downloaded the old version, installed it, none of the extensions were there, downloaded them etc etc. About an hour for nil net gain!
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