Countdown to Firefox 2 RC 1

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Countdown to Firefox 2 RC 1

by Jay Savage Sep 26th 2006

According to the Bon Echo (FF 2 project code name) project page, Firefox 2 is slated to come out of beta with the first release candidate a 3:00pm ~~EDT~~ PDT today. That's a little less than ~~an hour~~ four hours from right now. Head over there and be one of the first in line to put the next generation of everyone's favorite fox through it's final paces. If you do, please make sure to submit those bugzilla reports when you run into problems and help the Firefox team make Bon Echo the best it can possibly be.

Tags: Bon Echo, Firefox, RC 1

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

legalxchech said 2:22PM on 9-26-2006

Actually it says by 3pm PDT, which would be 6pm EDT. but i'm still excited nonetheless. it just means i'l have to find some way of entertaining myself for 3 more hours. blah.....

Anthony said 2:57PM on 9-26-2006

get your ffx 2rc1 right now at http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/

tkm625 said 11:17PM on 9-26-2006

Mozilla hasn't uploaded the release notes, but there's a link to them on the page.. wonder why.

tahlyn said 12:35PM on 9-27-2006

downloaded and installed rc1 with a separate profile. No crashes so far and most of my extensions worked without messing around with them.

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