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Web Browser Wars: Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 Now Available

RC2 Made Available for Testing Purposes Only, with No End-User Support
By Jeremy Geelan
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November 12, 2005 04:15 PM EST
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Exactly one year and one day after Mozilla first rolled out its popular Firefox Web browser, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 has become available for download - made available to the techno-savvy for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. The file is 5.0MB in size and can be found at the Mozilla Fondation's download site.

"Mozilla is ecstatic about the success of Firefox over the past year," said Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, as Firefox turned one. "We applaud the commitment of our global community of open source contributors to the shared goal of making the Web browsing experience better for everyone."

The Mozilla community is a worldwide network of open source software contributors, including developers, beta testers, designers, writers and end users.

"This is the second release candidate of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback," Baker added.

Compared to Release Candidate 1, RC2 includes several fixes to the automated update system.

Published November 12, 2005 – Reads 16,487
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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