Ubuntu Gets Firefox 3 Early?

Posted by John
on Friday, 13 June 2008

I'm probably wrong and everything, but last night I got an update of Firefox 3 thru the Synaptic package manager on Ubuntu Hardy and now it sort of looks like it's out early.

Firefox3

Any ideas?

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  1. Scott Y. – Saturday, 14 June 2008
    Same here. Upgraded my Xubuntu box and got Firefox 3. However I also noticed that RC2 that I have on a Windows box also says "Firefox Version 3.0" in the About window -- no mention of release candidate anywhere. It says "Gecko/2008052906" whereas the one from Ubuntu says Gecko/2008060309. Maybe RC3 that was released a few days ago? Or maybe RC3 == Gold release?
  2. indiehead – Saturday, 14 June 2008
    think you may be on to something there, well I just got an email from Mozilla stating the download day will be June 17th 2008 so by then we'll be up & running the gold edition.

    it would be soo good if everyone who has Firefox 2 switches over to 3, considering all the extra's it packs in.

    Just ran an ACID test on browsers: Firefox 2 = 56%,Safari 3 = 75%, IE7 = 13%, IE6 = 3 !!
  3. Curtis Summers – Tuesday, 17 June 2008
    It appears to be RC1, as this is the actual package coming down:

    3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1

  4. indiehead – Tuesday, 17 June 2008
    download day doesn't begin till 6pm over here, shame, have to wait a bit longer till it's out over here.
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