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This is the standard misinterpretation of the binaries produced by the release candidate process as being "final". Firefox 5 Release Candidate 1 is now availab
by floatingatoll 15y ago
This is the standard misinterpretation of the binaries produced by the release candidate process as being "final".
Firefox 5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. If no issues are found, it will become the final release. If issues are found, there will be other RCs.
Notice how it's not tagged "release candidate" in any visible way. That's because it's a candidate for being released as final!
If everything goes well, then RC1 will become "final". Otherwise, there will be newer builds.
Y'all are being misled, either purely by accident, or maybe for pageviews and advertising dollars, or maybe some combination thereof. Hope it's unintentional!
EDIT: I work at Mozilla, but not in the release division.
EDIT 2: I don't actually know their motives, so I revised that paragraph to be clear that I don't know.