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Ubuntu + Firefox 3

#1 Post by cpascu01 » 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?
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#2 Post by Superego » 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.
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#3 Post by tourist.Tam » 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?).

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#4 Post by archer6 » 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?).

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#5 Post by frankausmtank » Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:37 pm

The most recent version in the official hardy repositories is rc1. Runs quite well :)
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#6 Post by cpascu01 » 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. :?
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#7 Post by al7kz » 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
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#8 Post by frankausmtank » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:55 pm

Update: 3.0 final is now in the repos.
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