Download Firefox 3.5 RC2
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 is live and is available for download. This is the development milestone of the open source browser that will be made available to the general public.
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19.6.2009 Firefox 2.0 RC2 available
The dev team over at mozilla.org have quietly released RC2 to the FTP.
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6.10.2006 Firefox 1.5 RC2 released!
Mozilla has just released Firefox 1.5 RC2 (Release Candidate). This release contains many bugs (about 36 fixes) over the previous RC. If no critical issues are found, then this is 1.5 final, otherwise there will be some more fixes before final, with possibly another RC release.
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC2
This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
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6.6.2008 Download Firefox 3.5 RC2
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 is live and is available for download. This is the development milestone of the open source browser that will be made available to the general public.
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19.6.2009 Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Ahead of IE8 and Firefox 3.1
For the past couple of years Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral, albeit slow, but inching down with every passing month, with only Firefox to blame.
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2.12.2008 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available
Today Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Windows PowerShell RC2, the command line shell and scripting language that helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity and control of system administration.
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27.9.2006 Windows Vista RC2 Comes Friday
According to Paul Thurrot, Microsoft plans to ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista this Friday. Unexpectedly, Microsoft will name the release as Release Candidate 2 (RC2). Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that it would not ship an RC2 milestone release of Windows Vista.
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3.10.2006 Windows 7 Build 7200 RC2
Wzor confirmed that Windows 7 build RC2 is true. We are just going to assume that RC2 = RTM earlier it was rumored that build 7200 = RC2 and Build 7300 = RTM.
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31.5.2009 Windows Vista RC2 - Build 5744
Microsoft has accidently left details on how RC2 will be distributed.
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5.10.2006 Windows Vista RC2 Release Imminent
A public download page for Windows Vista RC2 has been located hosting a new build number (5744).
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5.10.2006 Microsoft: There Is Only One Windows XP SP3 RC2
While Microsoft has already finished building Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1/RTM, the development of Windows XP Service Pack 3 continues with the finishing line still at a distance.
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29.2.2008 Windows 7 RC2 build 7200 is about to release
Why Windows 7 RC2 build 7200? Because Windows 7 is in the RC phase. The Vista RC and XP RC, few years ago, didn't include new functions.
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31.5.2009 Screenshots of Windows 7 Build 7225 RC2
Windows 7 Build 7225 is confirmed by our favourite source Wzor. Wzor posted the screenshots of build 7225 and the complete string is 6.1.7225.0.winmain.090529-2022.
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2.6.2009 Windows Vista RC2 build 5744 DOWNLOAD
This new build of Windows Vista offers users a higher level of performance and stability – improving what was established in Windows Vista RC1. We were able to also fix many of your bugs reported from RC1 and implement them for RC2 build 5744. Thank you to our beta testers for the bugs and feedback you submitted for RC1.
First screenshot available.
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6.10.2006 Microsoft Pulls Vista RC2 Public Download
On Monday, just two days after making the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) version of Windows Vista available to the public via the Customer Preview Program (CPP), Microsoft pulled the download, confounding users who were hoping to get the last public pre-release version of the product.
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12.10.2006 New Windows XP SP3 RC2 Build 3311 Available
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was released following the RTM of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 in the first week of February.
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25.2.2008 Windows XP SP3 RC2 Refreshed and Re-Released!
A new version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was made available for download today, February 27, 2008.
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27.2.2008 10 expert tips and tweaks for Windows Vista RC2
Click on the links for the full tweak
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30.10.2006 Windows Vista Beta 2, RC1 and RC2 set to expire
On 31 May 2007, all Customer Preview Program (CPP) pre-release versions of Windows Vista will expire. If you are running a pre-release version of Windows Vista (Beta 2, RC1 or RC2), you will begin to receive warning notifications about the upcoming expiration on 18 May.
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25.4.2007 Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 RC2 Download
That's right! Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 is available for download and you can grab it right here.
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20.2.2008 Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2 improves networking
Although news of this release is already a couple of days old, new features in Service Pack 3 RC2 for Windows XP that users can expect from this package includes: stronger networking protocols with black hole router detection, and Network Access Protection, with Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) that was provided for in Windows Vista.
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22.2.2008 Microsoft Windows Vista RC2 Build 5744 - 16384 Released
Microsoft has released Windows Vista Build 5744 on connect!
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6.10.2006 Windows XP SP3 RC2 Leaked and Available for Download on Torrent Websites
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 has been leaked and is available for download on torrent websites. Three days after releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, Microsoft launched another development milestone of XP SP3.
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13.2.2008 Comodo Internet Security 32-bit 3.5.53518.419 RC2
Comodo Internet Security is designed to be the that integrates Comodo Antivirus, Comodo Firewall and Comodo Defense+ in a seamless manner.
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22.10.2008 Microsoft Suggests XP SP3 RC2 the Final Pit Stop – RTM Next
Release Candidate 2 could very well be the final beta stage of the Windows XP Service Pack 3.
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14.3.2008 Microsoft Suggests XP SP3 RC2 the Final Pit Stop – RTM Next
Release Candidate 2 could very well be the final beta stage of the Windows XP Service Pack 3. At least this is what Microsoft is indicating.
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16.3.2008 Microsoft Killed Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 RC2 Refresh
The third and last service pack for Windows XP is barely out the door and Microsoft has rushed to put the past behind it.
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7.5.2008Firefox 2.0 RC2 available
The dev team over at
mozilla.org have quietly
released RC2 to the FTP.
There is no
announcement or changelog yet
but sharp-eyed hajj_3
posted the location to grab
the file on our Back Page News
section of the forums.
Firefox 2 will be
based on continued development
of the Gecko 1.8 branch
created for Firefox 1.5. The
goal is that Firefox 1.5 and 2
are compatible from a web
developer's point of view.
The final build of 2.0 is
expected to be released Q3
this year.
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06.10.2006Microsoft's IE 7 May Beat Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 To Market
Mozilla Corp. has released
Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate
2 (RC2), but may be beat in
the race to final by
Microsoft, which said that
Internet Explorer 7 would ship
in October.
Firefox
2.0 RC2 went live late Friday,
with the update pushed
automatically to users of
earlier editions of Firefox
2.0, the open-source
browser's first major update
since 1.5 in November 2005.
Others can download RC2 in
versions for Windows, Mac OS
X, and Linux in 39 localized
editions, including ones for
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch,
Mongolian, Russian, and
Slovakian speakers.
However, at least one more
release candidate will be
issued by Mozilla. "There are
a handful of security and
stability bugs we'd like to
see get in before the final
FF2 release. Thus we'll be
doing a third release
candidate," wrote Mike
Schroepfer, Mozilla's
director of engineering, in an
entry on the developer's
message forum.
But
while Mozilla has not set a
final release date for Firefox
2.0 -- on this calendar, it
was once pegged to late
October, but was withdrawn
weeks ago -- rival Microsoft
said that it will ship IE 7,
the first significant upgrade
to its browser since 2001,
this month.
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10.10.2006Windows Vista RC2 - Build 5744
Microsoft has accidently left
details on how RC2 will be
distributed.
The
company has a CPP for RC2
ready for the download to be
distributed shortly. It's not
clear exactly when RC2 will be
released but rumours point
towards a release this
week.
The build is
5744 and is expected to be the
last released to testers
before RTM. Testers are hoping
for the new sounds, refined
aero glass and bootscreen in
this build.
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05.10.2006Mozilla Officially Releases Firefox 2.0 RC2
On Saturday Mozilla officially
released RC2 of Firefox 2.0,
Neowin
originally
reported the release a day
earlier on Friday the 6th.
Mozilla Firefox, the
popular web browser, caused a
stir with the original
release, but apart from minor
changes, visual improvements
and security fixes, there
haven't been a wide range of
new features since the
original 1.x release. This is
all about to change, with the
forthcoming release of Firefox
2.0, planned for
October/November 2006.
This is Release
Candidate 2 and the second
public preview of Firefox 2.0,
along with a snapshot of the
forthcoming new features. It
must be noted that this is
only a beta and should be used
for testing-purposes only.
Many of the existing themes
and extensions are not
operating within this beta
release.
Current
new 2.0 features include
anti-phishing support, useful
for acknowledging the
difference between a
legitimate website and a fake
site set up for the purposes
of obtaining your personal
information.
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09.10.2006Mozilla provides more details on Firefox 3.0 RC2
The festivities began yesterday -- two days ahead of schedule -- with the publication by Mozilla of a package that ended up being
confirmed as Release Candidate 2 of its Firefox 3.0 Web browser. The final release certainly appears on schedule for "mid-June,"
which is true to what the organization has promised users for several weeks.
Thus far, BetaNews tests have shown RC2 to be mostly
solid. We noticed the absence in the new custom installation option of DOM Inspector, a tool developers use to look into the code for a page's
Document Object Model (for pages that use DOM). There's a good reason for that, as
confirmed this morning in Mozilla's release notes: DOM
Inspector was separated from the 3.0 code base, and is now available as a free add-on.
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05.06.2008Vista RC2 Out, Last Build Before RTM
As expected, Microsoft on
Friday issued the second
release candidate of Windows
Vista - the last public build
before the next-generation
operating system is released
to manufacturing. As with the
interim build before it, RC2
will be available to a limited
number of CPP participants...
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07.10.2006Mozilla issues Firefox 3.0 RC3 bug fix for Mac
This morning, Mozilla's FTP servers were updated once again with a new round of release candidates for its next Web browser, but curiously, we noted
RC3 for Windows was identical to RC2 for Windows...
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11.06.2008Windows Vista RC2 Set for Release
A Portugese-language blog post
from a member of the Windows
Local Test and Support team in
Brazil Wednesday, along with a
download page on Microsoft's
Web site confirmed that
Windows Vista RC2 is arriving
shortly, and will be available
for public download...
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05.10.2006Windows Vista RC2 available to CPP Customers
This just in from Nick White
on the Windows Vista Team
Blog, thanks to betax
for the heads up.
I
encourage you to download and
install Windows Vista RC2.
We're almost finished with
Windows Vista - RTM is almost
here. Submit as many bugs as
you can as we continue to work
hard toward shipping.
Windows Vista RC2 is now
available to Customer Preview
Program participants for a
limited time . If you're
in the CPP use these links to
access RC2:
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07.10.2006Firefox 3 RC2 Now Available
Mozilla has posted the second release candidate of its Firefox 3 web browser this morning. The software is currently only available through the
organizations
FTP server.
Mozilla
originally expected that Firefox 3 RC1 will
represent Firefox 3 final, but recently said that there was
enough reason to issue a second release.
Firefox 3 is
expected to launch by mid-June.
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04.06.2008Windows Vista RC2 This Friday
Thanks to Paul Thurrott for
the details:
Microsoft this Friday will
ship the final pre-release
version of Windows Vista and,
unexpectedly, will name the
release as Release Candidate 2
(RC2). Previously, Microsoft
had publicly asserted that it
would not ship an RC2
milestone release of Windows
Vista. But don't let the name
fool you: RC2 is really just a
standard interim build of
Vista and will not be given
out to millions of users as
was RC1.
The RC2
build is 5743, and Microsoft
is currently testing it
internally. As with the
previous interim build, 5728,
RC2 will be given out to beta
testers, MSDN and TechNet
subscribers, and a random,
limited selection of Consumer
Preview Program (CPP) members.
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03.10.2006Microsoft Pulls Vista RC2 Public Download
On Monday, just two days after
making Release Candidate 2
(RC2) of Windows Vista
available to the public
through the Customer Preview
Program (CPP), Microsoft
pulled the download,
confounding many users who
were hoping to get the last
public prerelease version of
the product.
But
despite rumors of problems,
Microsoft says its removal of
RC2 was all part of the
plan.
"Windows
Vista RC2 was an interim
release distributed for the
purposes of final testing by a
limited audience," a
Microsoft representative told
me late yesterday. "Once that
limit was reached and the
necessary feedback was
collected from the CPP
audience, Microsoft closed the
site. For now, Windows Vista
RC1 remains the primary
version for distribution and
ongoing use."
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13.10.2006Windows XP SP3 RC2 Standalone Packages Available (English, German, Japanese)
Note that this is the same exact build (3311) Microsoft previously released as a Windows Update only download
last week.
Microsoft is allowing Windows XP
Service Pack 2 machines to be offered Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 via Windows Update. You may also download standalone update
packages for Windows XP SP3 RC2, in English, German, and/or Japanese. Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be offered on Windows Update when Service Pack 3
releases in the first half of 2008.
Windows Service Pack 2 is required in order to install this preview. Please uninstall any
previous beta release of Service Pack 3 before installing SP3 RC2.
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28.02.2008Mozilla IDs 10 bugs, 3 critical, in Firefox 3.0 RC1
Mozilla Corp. has identified 10 high-priority bugs in
Firefox 3.0 — three of them pegged
critical — but it won't decide until next week whether to release the browser anyway or restart the final stretch by issuing a second release
candidate.
"We are making a go/no-go decision early next week, as we are still collecting feedback
,"
Mike Schroepfer,
Mozilla's vice president of engineering, said in an e-mail Thursday.
Firefox 3.0 RC1 launched a week ago, but
Mozilla has not yet committed to RC2. Previously, the company only said it is targeting June as the release window for the final code.
winbeta.org - 24.05.2008
Firefox 3.5 benchmarked, not as fast as Chrome
The results are in from benchmarks of Firefox 3.5, performed by ZDNet. The benchmarks test all the main browsers from Google Chrome 2.0.172.33,
Safari 4, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.0.5, Opera 10 Alpha and Internet Explorer 8. Each browser was put through three tests including SunSpider
javascript benchmark, V8 Benchmark Suite and finally the ACID 3 test. Firefox 3.5 was built for speed and performance, compared to previous
versions of Firefox. Firefox 3.5 performed better than Firefox 3.0.5 and Internet Explorer 8 in all three categories. From the graphs, it is clear
to see that Google Chrome performed the best overall, followed shortly by Safari 4 and then Firefox 3.5.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 01.07.2009
Windows XP SP3 RC2 Refresh Available
A new "Refresh" version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was made available Tuesday on Microsoft Update, according to Microsoft
representatives.
The primary goal of the release is for its developers to validate improvements to the Windows Update procedure, but a
couple of minor additions were also included. As with the previous RC2, you need to download and run a small program available from Microsoft Download
Center that makes a registry change on your PC in order for the update to be offered.
neowin.net - 26.03.2008
Evidence tabs will get more attention in future Firefox releases
Google's Chrome developers -- some of whom have worked, and are still working, on Firefox -- acknowledged their debt of gratitude for Firefox's
inspiration. But today's latest development in Firefox 3.1 suggests it's now playing catch-up...
betanews.com - 09.09.2008
Mozilla postpones Firefox 2 fix
Mozilla will delay the next
security update for Firefox so
it can test a fix for a flaw
that could be used by
attackers by skirt security
restrictions.
The
flaw, disclosed by Polish
researcher Michal Zalewski on
the Full
Disclosure security
mailing list, could let a
malicious site manipulate the
authentication cookies for
other sites' pages. It is
present in the most recent
version of the open-source
browser, 2.0.0.1.
According to Zalewski, the
bug might allow hackers to
"tamper with the way these
sites are
displayed or how they
work."
Mozilla
developers jumped on the bug
and produced a fix by the next
day. However, adding the patch
to the Firefox 2.0.0.2 and
1.5.0.10 updates, which are
still under development, will
require more work. "We had to
respin for and now
have Firefox 2.0.0.2 rc4 and
1.5.0.10 rc2 builds," wrote
Firefox developer Jay Patel on
the Mozilla.dev.planning
forum. "We are shooting
for a target ship date of
Thursday 2/22."
neowin.net - 21.02.2007
Mozilla Launches Firefox TV Ad
Contest
Mozilla on Thursday asked
Firefox users to create a
30-second broadcast quality
television ad for a contest
called "Firefox
Flicks." The company said
that winning ads could
possibly be used in global
marketing campaigns for
Firefox 1.5, the newest
version of the open source
browser...
betanews.com - 22.12.2005
Firefox 3 Beta 4 review
Percy Cabello: Firefox 3 Beta 4 is about to be released (later today or tomorrow), as the twelfth milestone, in what already is the longest
development time for a Firefox version since the initial Firefox 1.0 back in 2004.
Fortunately, Mozilla has not been shy to set
as many milestones as needed, and given the many new features and tweaks Firefox 3 introduces, it seems anything but sensible, specially considering
its not only about Firefox but Gecko, the web page rendering engine and the Mozilla platform as a whole which affects the many products based on
it.
winbeta.org - 10.03.2008
