Today is a very big day for Mozilla! We have Firefox 1.5.0.9 and 2.0.0.1 available for download as well as Thunderbird 1.5.0.9. As I mentioned yesterday there are 183 bugs fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.1: 42 are crashers, 3 are memory leaks, 41 are regressions and 4 are privacy-related bugs. In the comments yesterday Tom asked if this was a lot of bug fixes or if it was typical for a minor update. Since it is the first release after a major update I was expecting there to be a lot of bug fixes so this isn’t surprising to me, but 1.5.0.8 only had 9 bug fixes from the previous 1.5.0.7 so this update for 2.0.0.1 has quite a few changes. Since there are so many changes don’t be surprised if some of your extensions have problems.
James pointed out in the comments this morning that Mozilla plans to make the changes live on the website at 10AM and the built-in updates will be activated around 5PM (both times are Pacific Time). Below you will find the downloads for each of the applications and they use a load balancing URL to access their FTP. Most sites that are already linking to the builds use an address that looks something like “ftp.mozilla.com…” but this one is “releases.mozilla.com…” which is supposed to spread the load out across the mirrors (or so I’ve been told).
Alright, here are the download links and if you have any problems with extensions please let us know so that others can be a little more cautious while installing the new releases:
–Firefox 1.5.0.9 Download–
–Firefox 2.0.0.1 Download–
–Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 Download–
With all of that being said, work on Firefox 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2 has already begun and they are looking for an end of January or early February release. Congratulations to the whole Mozilla team for another set of fine releases and keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for linking to the load balancing, I am sure the Mozilla IT guys appreciate it.
You may download Firefox 3 Alpha 1 [soft-go.com]
Has anyone come up with the portable version of FF 2.0.0.1 yet?
Odd still showing as 2.0 on the Firefox page and the download file is for 2.0 as well.
Okay, they have updated the site now
Thought this comment took, but then it got deleted….
I guess I should go register…anyway….
I just did my update check for the nightly “Minefield” build release and it now reports in as version 3.0a2pre. (build version is 2006121904).
I tracked down the download page here and confirmed they are listing it: [ftp.mozilla.org]
Does this mean a Gran Paradiso 3.0 Alpha 2 release is around the corner?
Big release day from Mozilla indeed.
I guess this counts as a “stocking-stuffer”?
–Cheers!
I will probably post a portable version in the forum a little later tonight but when it comes to these official releases I want to keep the portable versions a little bit “behind-the-scenes” because John Haller of PortableApps.com said that I need to be careful of trademark infringement. He said that he has permission to redistribute Firefox as a portable build but I don’t…so watch the forum a little later because I won’t be making an anouncement on here unless PortableApps.com “officially” releases their version.
Sorry about that…looks like our spam filter ate your first comment, but if you register then you’ll see a red warning box when the spam filter has eaten one of your comments (I still have some kinks to work out so that you’re notified immediately after posting though).
Gran Paradiso 3 Alpha 2 is not expected until late January the last I was informed but they are just preparing for the transition. For example, Thunderbird was labeled as Beta1pre for months before it was released…so it doesn’t signify anything.
Thanks for the additional background!
That makes sense.
–Cheers!
Just an FYI for everyone…Ashley posted a Firefox Portable link in the forum.