Mozilla started distributing the final version of Firefox 3.02 to various major and minor mirror sites. This is the usual process before they release the notification on the homepage about the new version. The Check for Updates feature will show the new version usually 0-24 hours later.
Firefox users who cannot wait can head straight to the main list of Firefox mirror sites and pick a mirror next to their location to download the latest official version of Firefox.
Download Squad reported that it is a beta release that got released today but this is obviously not true since Firefox 3.02 is available in the Firefox release directory of the Mozilla ftp site which indicates that this is the final version and not a beta release.
Users who cannot find the download need to follow the path firefox/releases/3.0.2/ on the ftp mirrors to find the release that they can download. The download is available for all supported operating systems and in all languages.
The release notes are still mentioning changes of the beta version of Firefox 3.02 but will surely be updated soon with the release information which should not be that different. Some interesting changes are several security and stability fixes, minor layout issues and hangs & crashes when using screen readers.
Don’t be afraid when the What’s new page is still referring to Firefox 3.02 beta. This page has not been updated as well.
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Why not just link to the folder on one mirror -.-
http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.2/win32/en-GB/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.2.exe
Dark Kosmos because it might put to much load on that one mirror.
I hope this version is more stable that 3.1. I was getting crashes upon closing V3.1, and submitting an error report each time, was becoming common place.
@Micky
Totally true, every time you close firefox it will crash. That’s bad. Lets see whether this verion solves the problem. I also hope it will start a little faster.
Well, so far no problems with 3.02, all fine so far.
Yes finally it start a lot faster then before and after closing Firefox it won’t crash anymore.
So thumbs up for Firefox 3.02
“Dark Kosmos because it might put to much load on that one mirror.”
Martin, this is the second time (at least) you spell “too” with one “o”, rather funny for someone who masters English far better than I do!
When i do a software update check it shows me a list of incompatible items, namely TMP. Does that happen for you Martin?
I upgraded to 3.02 and it gave me a blue screen!
Ouch! Did you manage to find out the cause exactly? Did you restore a back up from Mozbackup