Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate (RC) is Live and ready to download

[TJCS]

RC ship date march 9th according to znet.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I thought this was cool, mozilla has it's own html5 demo page:

https://demos.mozilla.org/en-US/

 

[hclarkjr]

RC ship date march 9th according to znet.

that is for those that want the official release. it will be on the FTP today if it isn't already there, checking now.

 

[hclarkjr]

it is, here is link for RC ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o.../win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup 4.0 RC 1.exe

 

[Iron Woode]

it is, here is link for RC ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...signed/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 4.0 RC 1.exe

link fail.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Will they fix the shifting highlights that appears on Win7, with beta12? It seems to be a new regression.

Edit: Just discovered:
http://www.mozilla-x86-64.com/

 

[jrocks84]

Will they fix the shifting highlights that appears on Win7, with beta12? It seems to be a new regression.

Edit: Just discovered:
http://www.mozilla-x86-64.com/

Those are unofficial builds that are still based on Firefox 3, so are going to have unpatched security holes, and also be slower than the official ones.

 

[TAandy]

told me it was installing to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 6\"
why beta 6, if it's an rc?
or am i just being a muppet?

 

[MikeyLSU]

so how does firefox make money?

I have always wondered how web browsers make money, seems Microsoft is always spending fortunes to develop their to get a higher user base, but where does the money come from?

 

[hclarkjr]

link fail.

link works fine for me, must be problem on your end

 

[raf051888]

so how does firefox make money?

I have always wondered how web browsers make money, seems Microsoft is always spending fortunes to develop their to get a higher user base, but where does the money come from?

I've heard the Mozilla makes money off the search engine referrals.

Contractual arrangements with companies like Google and Nokia are also accepted, but due to the strict rules governing the non-profit status of the Foundation, such things are taken care of by the Mozilla Corporation. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation, it was set up in 2005 to look after all business dealings and oversee all those lucrative contracts, like those which see Google and other popular engines provide default search referrals and which are said to account for over 80% of the company’s total revenue. The Corporation’s Board of Directors and Management Team are made up of Foundation members and various business people.
Mozilla continues to get much of its wealth from companies like Google, who has recently committed to extending its dealings with the company until at least 2011. Whether advice offered by Mozilla’s Director of Community Development, Asa Dotzler, earlier this month to ditch Google in favor of Microsoft’s Bing search engine signals a forthcoming change to this relationship remains to be seen. But whatever happens with that, so long as Mozilla continues to openly innovate, inspire, freely create and grab an increasing share of the internet application market, companies will no doubt be more than willing to offer huge sums of money by way of donation or investment and so help to ensure its survival.
Are you surprised that Mozilla gets most of its income via contracts with companies like Google? Have you ever donated to, or received a grant from, the Mozilla Foundation or know anyone who has?


http://www.technobuffalo.com/blog/internet/how-does-the-mozilla-foundation-make-money/

 

[Iron Woode]

link works fine for me, must be problem on your end

all I get is: 550 Permission denied.

hmmm...

 

[hclarkjr]

i believe they pulled it. i can not get it now either.

 

[hclarkjr]

it is 12mb in size so i can not email it to you either, comcast will not allow anything over 10mb

 

[hclarkjr]

all I get is: 550 Permission denied.

hmmm...

yhpm

 

[Iron Woode]

yhpm

thanks!

I hope it works out for me.

 

[bruceb]

Can Firefox 4 be installed along side Firefox 3.6.14 ? ?
Not sure I want to trust a release candidate until all
the bugs are out.
FYI ... as I type Firefox is updating to 3.6.15

 

[lxskllr]

Can Firefox 4 be installed along side Firefox 3.6.14 ? ?
Not sure I want to trust a release candidate until all
the bugs are out.
FYI ... as I type Firefox is updating to 3.6.15

Yea, you can even share a profile. That's not necessarily recommended, but that's what I do. Install the nightly tester tools, or compatibility reporter, and you can force addon compatibility. That makes many work that aren't officially compatible.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

so how does firefox make money?

I have always wondered how web browsers make money, seems Microsoft is always spending fortunes to develop their to get a higher user base, but where does the money come from?

http://store.mozilla.org/

 

[bruceb]

That addon compatibilty one is nice. I added it to Firefox, just in case some of mine do not work in FF4

 

[natto fire]

I will have to check this out although I am not expecting much. Been having massive amounts of problems with our ISP lately, they oversold bandwidth to the extreme.

Switching to Chrome from old FF helped a bit, but considering I am pinging over 400ms to a server not more than 60 miles from me, there are deeper issues.

I'll still take the low light pollution and hiking of the "sticks" over fast internet any day...

 

[sandorski]

Do you know what "beta", "release candidate", and "pointless rant" means?

hehe, I was going to mention something. Thought the Thread was created today, not weeks ago. As of yesterday FF was wanting me to try the BETA.

 

[Barfo]

Does anyone have a working link?

 

[hclarkjr]

yhpm

 

[Chiefcrowe]

http://www.conceivablytech.com/6020/products/firefox-4-rc-vs-ie9-rc-the-first-duel