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Get Your Hands on Firefox 3 RC2 - Now! (Updated)

Posted 06/04/08 at 03:00:55 PM  by Mark Soper

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As reported by MacObserver and ZDNet's Andrian Kingsley-Hughes, Mozilla is rolling out Firefox 3's Release Candidate 2.

Update 2: 6-4-2008, 2:14PM PDT

Firefox 3 RC2 is now available using the shortcuts on the Firefox RC page. No "surgery" is necessary. Enjoy!

Although the Firefox RC page doesn't yet provide shortcuts to RC2, it's easy to edit the shortcuts provided on the RC1 page to get your hands on RC2 right now:

1. Navigate to the Mozilla Firefox RC release page.

2. Right-click on the link for RC1 and select Copy Shortcut.

3. Paste the shortcut into a text editor (like Notepad).

4. Change the reference to RC1 to RC2.

5. Copy the changed shortcut.

6. Paste it into your web browser and you're downloading RC2!

RC2 is designed to make sure that any lingering bugs found in RC1 are thoroughly exterminated by the time Firefox 3 rolls out in mid-June.

Enjoy!

Updated 6-4-2008 1:31PM PDT

If you're more comfortable with drilling down manually into the FTP folder, start here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0rc2/.

Just keep in mind that you must make sure you choose the correct language folder after you choose the correct operating system folder. For example, choose the en-US folder for US English.

COMMENTS:2
TAGS: Software, news, open source, Browsers, Firefox 3, rc2
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avatarFeels Faster

Submitted by One4yu2c on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 5:58pm

Mozilla's claim of a faster browser certainly jives with my experience so far. Been rockin' with FF3 since reading this blog, and it feels snappier. You can really notice the difference on Asus' website, which tends to load slow most of the time (try navigating side by side with IE7).

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avatarI just had RC1 auto update

Submitted by whitneymr on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 3:48pm

I just had RC1 auto update itself. Just check under the help tab to see if your copy is doing the same.

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