Comments on: Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC1 Released, Download NOW

By: Bobby Phoenix

Bobby Phoenix — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:28:00 +0000

Thanks Tyler!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:02:54 +0000

Quoting him again:
"On June 19th, we hope to release (on our website, as a full download)
a release candidate. Right now that would be the rc2build2 version, as
it's the latest thing we have. So, in other words:

June 16th: Firefox 3.5 beta users get updated to an early release
candidate (rc1build2)
June 19th: Firefox 3.5 beta users get updated to the official release
candidate, which is also put up for direct download (right now this
would be rc2build2, but that may yet change!)
end of June: target ship date for Firefox 3.5"

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:02:18 +0000

Quoting Mike Beltzner, who is in charge of Firefox development
"We've just released partial updates for Firefox 3.5 beta users which
will update them to an early version of the release candidate (the
exact version reference is rc1build2: this means it is the first
revision of the release candidate for which we'll ship updates, and it
required two build attempts). This build is *not* being released on
the beta download page; if someone out there wants to get at it, they
should first become a beta tester by downloading a beta and then they
will receive the updates.

As we find issues with the release candidate, we will fix and rebuild.
We're already generating a new version (rc2build2) with several small,
localized fixes. We can do this because the small-scope nature of the
fixes means that we can re-run a segment of the quality assurance
tests instead of starting over from scratch.

Our target is still to release the most up to date version of the
release candidate for download on our website this Friday. It really
depends on what we find between now and then, but with 800,000 people
looking, it means that if nothing is found, we can be extremely
confident of the quality of the release candidate code!
"
So, this is not the release candidate, but a release candidate preview. It will be released to beta testers, but it is not the final release candidate.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:21:57 +0000

I'd just uninstall the beta, then download the RC1 setup using the links here with IE or another browser. Whatever problems updating seems to be giving you, I would imagine that would solve it, and you won't lose your personal information.

By: Bobby Phoenix

Bobby Phoenix — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:39:31 +0000

I'm currently using FF 3.5 Beta 99. I tried to download it about 5 times, and each time I get FF 3.5 Beta 4. Then it checks for updates and tells me to update to FF 3.5 Beta 99 again. What am I doing wrong. I tried the download link, from the release notes, and from mozzila.com, and it keeps putting me in loops.