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Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:13 am**

Has anyone updated their Ubuntu Hardy recently? I just update my system and Firefox 3 came up as a choice. Did the final release come out early?

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:42 pm**

It's not the final release, Firefox 3 is only up Release Candidate 3 (so close, but not technically a final release). I thought that only the beta release was in the official Ubuntu repositories, though there are other repositories you can add to get RC1.

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:51 pm**

yeah weird since the mozilla website official release of FF3 is on the 17th of this month (or am I wrong?).

Tam

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:13 pm**

tourist.Tam wrote:yeah weird since the mozilla website official release of FF3 is on the 17th of this month (or am I wrong?).

Tam

The latest word I got which is quite unofficial, is that the date was pushed back to the 25th of this month. However this has not been posted as it's the result of a meeting discussing this very subject this morning. I have a friend on the development team and unlike Microsoft, or Apple, he will not be burned at the stake for sharing with me......

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:37 pm**

The most recent version in the official hardy repositories is rc1. Runs quite well

Posted: **Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:43 pm**

I was under the impression that the Hardy repositories were NOT going to be updated with release candidates and that any Firefox updates would be the final release. I guess I was wrong.

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:18 am**

You can roll back to 2.0.0.14:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... fox+rotten

& you have to delete a hidden file in ur home directory, it's either .firefox or .mozilla, so that extensions will work

Posted: **Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:55 pm**

Update: 3.0 final is now in the repos.

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