Mozilla launches Firefox 3 RC2
So what's new with Firefox 3 RC2? Not a whole heck of a lot that you'll notice. This release wasn't about adding new features, but rather fixing bugs. There's still a rather lengthy list of known issues which you can read about in the release notes.
Also, keep in mind that installing Firefox 3 RC 2 will overwrite your previous Firefox installation. You shouldn't lose any bookmarks or preferences, but some add-ons may stop working until the developers update those extensions.
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Tom said 6:26PM on 6-04-2008
Strangely enough, when I downloaded Firefox 3 RC2 and installed it I checked the "about firefox" box and it only says "Firefox 3.0" no mention of being "RC2" which all these notes has been a part of the old way. Could it be that what I have is 3.0 the full, new release?
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Brad Linder said 6:26PM on 6-04-2008
Firefox 3 RC1 exhibited the same behavior.
xerxesdaphat said 7:25AM on 6-05-2008
It's meant to do that -- it's a Release Candidate. The idea is that they make a release candidate, release it, and if there's no problems, they just start calling it Firefox 3.0. As there's nothing to change, nobody has to download a whole new 10MB or so just to change the name in the About box. Turns out there were some problems with RC1, so they released RC2 -- exactly the same situation.
Andrew Pollack said 7:35PM on 6-04-2008
I have to say, I'm pretty satisfied with RC1 - maybe not entirely bug free, and I'm sure it will keep getting better, but I'm no great rush. I'll probably wait a few days for the add-ons to catchup first.
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Jay said 7:39PM on 6-04-2008
When's it hitting the Ubuntu repos?
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bradwjensen said 10:57PM on 6-04-2008
You can always add this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~fta/+archive
Bryan Price said 7:59PM on 6-04-2008
I guess I'll be grabbing the portableapps version tomorrow. For once I'm reading about a release, and portableapps.org hasn't gotten up yet.
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Jason H. said 10:58PM on 6-04-2008
It appears as though it's pretty "offical" now...just checked for updates from w/in Firefox and it discovered RC2.
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Brandon said 7:25AM on 6-05-2008
Ohhhhhhh, so that's what that up date was, lol.
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joshua said 7:27AM on 6-05-2008
puyit puyit puyit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Doug S. said 12:57PM on 6-05-2008
starting this morning my pages and fonts looked huge! Every time I open a new tab I have to shrink the page (using ctrl-). Can anyone offer a more permanent solution?
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conor said 4:07PM on 6-05-2008
downloading now!
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