Firefox 3 RC2 Released!!

[gopi_vbboy]

Firefox 3 RC2(Release Candidate 2) Released


This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox...otes/#download

[iMav]

Ubuntu has the b5 version and the Check for update option is grayed out. Weird!

[gopi_vbboy]

Try this

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

[infra_red_dude]

Originally Posted by iMav

Ubuntu has the b5 version and the Check for update option is grayed out. Weird!

You can't update FF from within itself in Ubuntu. FF can be upgraded only when its in the repos thru Synaptic.

[iMav]

Damn! Synaptic shows b5 as the latest. Oh! WTH, going back to WIndows.

[infra_red_dude]

Wait for a couple of hours. It may show up in the repos. But you can manually download and install FF, whatever version you like anytime.

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

boring man

Alpha 1,2,3,4,5,6....

Then

Beta 1,2,3,4,5,6,.....

then

RC 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.......

next

Preview 1,2,3,4,5,6........

Then now going to release but then again

Delay 1,2,3,4,5,6.....

[mastermunj]

installed with auto update.. now waiting to restart my FF

[prem4u]

Originally Posted by a_k_s_h_a_y

boring man

Alpha 1,2,3,4,5,6....

Then

Beta 1,2,3,4,5,6,.....

then

RC 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.......

next

Preview 1,2,3,4,5,6........

Then now going to release but then again

Delay 1,2,3,4,5,6.....

[Cool G5]

Quite good.
But consumed 70 MB memory with 4 tabs open.

[chandru.in]

@iMav

I wonder why you want to belittle Ubuntu at all places when you have no idea of how things work.

Ubuntu 8.04 is an LTS release. So they decided to ship a beta version of Firefox as Firefox 2 will be too outdated in 3 years from now. That doesn't mean they'll release updates for every small pre-release version.

Pre-release versions are meant for people ready to try it and possibly test it. It is not for everyone. So there is nothing wrong if Ubuntu does not get RC2 as an update. If they take more than a month to supply the final release then you may complain.

If you really want to try RC2 on Ubuntu, it is not that difficult. Download from Mozilla's site extract the archive and use it.

The "Check for Updates" is disabled in Ubuntu version of Firefox because in Ubuntu all software setup are streamlined (unless user decides to choose his own way) unlike windows where you may have 50 apps checking and downloading updates from 50 different sites. Some don't even come with auto-update and user has to check the programs site often and see if any critical security flaw has been fixed. And all those freewares filled to the brim with spyware and adware.

[j1n M@tt]

FF3 RC2 seems quite gud in my testing.........but my old pulgins with FF2 r not working with FF3 RC2.....they said to look for updated plugins......but none r available now