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Hi, I work for Mozilla. Firefox 4 will be released tomorrow, March 22 (Tuesday). But you don't need to wait to download it - if you are running Firefox 4.0rc2
by mbrubeck 16y ago
Hi, I work for Mozilla. Firefox 4 will be released tomorrow, March 22 (Tuesday).
But you don't need to wait to download it - if you are running Firefox 4.0rc2, then you are running the exact bits that we plan to ship as 4.0 final. Download the RC from http://firefox.com/rc http://firefox.com/rc
- DisposaBoy 16y agoI hope you're mistaken about it being the same because RC2 is still buggy.
- omellet 16y agoIt seems like a waste of bandwidth for it to have downloaded a 12MB (roughly) update just to change the version info. Are there any plans to implement a Chrome-like binary diffing update system, now that Mozilla is moving to more frequent releases?
- cfinke 16y agoMozilla does have an incremental update system called MAR (Mozilla ARchive): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR
- mbrubeck 16y agoIf you are running RC2, you won't need to download any update, because there is no version info to change. All the version numbers in the release candidates just say "4.0". Mozilla already uses binary diffs for updates, and we already release security and stability updates about once a month.
- blinkingled 16y agoThanks for pointing that out - I was wondering about why I was seeing 4.0 since yesterday when it updated itself.