Many blogs have reported in the last days that the first Firefox 4 Release Candidate has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp server. A release candidate build, and not the final release candidate, was spotted by one blog and almost every tech blog in my RSS reader reported about it. Let me be the first to tell you that the real Firefox 4 Release Candidate has been published just a few minutes ago.
The release is currently available on the release server, and various mirrors throughout the world. Most mirror servers and the original Mozilla server block the download of the new release. One that does not is the server of the Umea University in Sweden. Just scroll down to Europe and click on that server to download the release candidate early.
The release notes page has not been uploaded yet. Users who have updated to or installed Firefox 4 will get a page not found error. It is likely that Mozilla will enable automatic updates and the release notes page in the next 24 hours.
Users of the beta of Firefox 4 may need to make a change to the Firefox configuration, if they have used it to override add-on compatibility. They need to write about:config in the address bar and hit the enter key on the keyboard.
The new setting to override add-on compatibility in Firefox 4 can be added with a right-click and the selection of New > Boolean from the context menu. The new value’s name is extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0 and it needs to be set to false.
Firefox 4 will not check an add-ons compatibility with the parameter set to false.
I will update the article when the downloads and the release notes page go life. (via)
Update: Mozilla has published the What’s New Page and the release notes. The release notes state the Firefox 4 contains “general stability, performance, and compatibility improvements”. The list of fixed issues contains several hundred entries and is accessible here. The release notes page lists the downloads for all Firefox 4 RC versions.
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Its also available here
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/4.0rc1-candidates/build1/win32/en-US/
First reported by Labnol.org
That’s a build, not a final release. While it may be the same it does not necessarily have to be.
That’s not just the best answer. It’s the bseestt answer!
The Firefox 4.0 RC1 I’ve just downloaded from Umea University FTP servers is dated March 4th and is the same (checksum) as the Firefox 4.0 RC1 Beta 1 available since that date. But as pointed out by Martin, the true RC may be the same indeed as the RC1 Beta 1 as some blogs had dared to state it would be. What bothers me is rather the release date on the ftp server, that of March 4th … wait & see :)
This mirror is OK too : University of Twente – SNT (nl) ;)
YEEEESSSSSS!!
At last its here.
How much longer for the final? Next week Monday?
‘SERVER NOT FOUND’. Random and very frequent