Firefox 2 out tomorrow
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Topic: Firefox 2 out tomorrow
Posted By: pjb007
Subject: Firefox 2 out tomorrow
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 5:34pm
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Seems the Firefox have beaten Microsoft to it. Version 2 is out tomorrow. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/25476 - http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/25476 |
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 6:31pm
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Well not quite beaten to it. IE7 came out last week... ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: pjb007
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 6:40pm
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IE7 - no not yet, week after next I think. Oh I see, yes IE7 is out now, the automatic update is week after next. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 8:17pm
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No IE7 is out, thats what Michael was saying came out a couple of days ago
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Posted By: pjb007
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 10:18pm
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Well I have not had the automatic updates and other websites say that Firefox is due tomorrow and IE is due later (Nov 1st if I remember correctly) I always wait for the automatic update anyway. Thought I have now heard else where that the browsers can be downloaded offically. I'll still wait for the auto update. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 23 October 2006 at 10:30pm
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Yup IE7 via Auto update is November first but the official release and time the download was available was Friday just gone. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 24 October 2006 at 12:37am
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The official FF 2.0 release isn't until the afternoon of October 24th, but there's downloads dated October 23 at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/ - ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 12:41am
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It's out - http://www.mozilla.com/ - http://www.mozilla.com/
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 10:44am
| Looks like the IE7 team don't mind a bit of competition - http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/ - http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/ |
Posted By: pjb007
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 1:12pm
| Thats strange, FireFox can't find any new updates. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 6:50pm
| Maybe nothing changed from the last RC to the release, not certain on that though |
Posted By: sebm
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 6:52pm
New release seems great. Just one annoying thing though (possibly changeable through options) is that it kinda ignores the XSLT style sheet when viewing RSS feeds in the browser,  
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Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 7:03pm
No, it wont do an incremental update, you'll have to download the full package. That will update your current setup. ------------- Handyman man? |
pjb007 wrote:Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 7:21pm
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ISTRC that they've done this before for one of their major releases - 1.0 or 1.5 - posted it but didn't enable it for auto-update for a while. A lot of people are set up to check for updates whenever the browser starts - they could have had a million downloads in the first 5 minutes. -------------
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Posted By: pjb007
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 9:54pm
Really, thats really very poor, you would think that when you went Help > Check for Updates it offer a link to the download site. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 25 October 2006 at 10:10pm
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It properly will eventually. At the mo they (as Dypers said) don't want their servers overloaded as every single copy of Firefox in existence went into automatic update lol  ------------- Handyman man? |