Meet Firefox 5.0

[grayscale]

Beta 1 isn't released yet.

[Semtex]

But it is already on ftp and here: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/5.0b1/

But in past, even when some beta was still in nightly stage we could download and test beta candidates in native lang....

[Semtex]

I couldn't edit my post...

Looks like this beta1 on ftp is only for test updates channels, Mozilla want check how will work switching between Aurora and Beta, official b1 will be at 17 May ;)

[torrentthief]

beta1 on the ftp is the same build as beta1 build 1 that they put on their servers about 1 week ago.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Beta 1 is weeks off, what you're seeing is just a test build (It's actually a week old Aurora build with different branding I think)

It's not an early release or anything like that, it's just there to test how their scripts work out.

[Kirkburn]

Basically: if you want to test Firefox 5, stick to the Aurora channel (for now). It'll all make more sense when all the channels get filled out.

In a few weeks, Fx7 dev will be on nightly, Fx6 stabilizing will be on Aurora, and Fx5 finalizing will be on beta ... we're a step behind that atm (Fx6 nightly, Fx5 aurora, beta unused).

[vasa1]

Basically: if you want to test Firefox 5, stick to the Aurora channel (for now). It'll all make more sense when all the channels get filled out.

In a few weeks, Fx7 dev will be on nightly, Fx6 stabilizing will be on Aurora, and Fx5 finalizing will be on beta ... we're a step behind that atm (Fx6 nightly, Fx5 aurora, beta unused).

And there's this:

The merge to Aurora 6.0 will happen on 2011-05-24.

From here: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/14df964f915a0494#

[erpster3]

I couldn't edit my post...

Looks like this beta1 on ftp is only for test updates channels, Mozilla want check how will work switching between Aurora and Beta, official b1 will be at 17 May ;)

and the official final release of Firefox 5.0 is scheduled to come out on June 21.

[parypv17]

wow that was quick, glad they finally decided to have their own pdf reader built in though.

[vasa1]

wow that was quick, glad they finally decided to have their own pdf reader built in though.

Where did you get the bit about the "pdf reader"?

[Jamushroom Veteran]

It's pretty annoying how Aurora is getting updates each day, without there being anything updated.

[vasa1]

It's pretty annoying how Aurora is getting updates each day, without there being anything updated.

This is the reasoning I could find:

Frequency of Aurora Builds

Original plan - we would only build if something had changed.

Changed to when we have changes on any locales if we are including them in the trigger, then we will build every night.

No change to plan but by nature of the many changes going in for locales we will end up building every night.

Source: near the bottom here ... https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Aurora/2011-05-03

Things should speed up after a week or so when Aurora moves onto Fx 6.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

according to the charts in the OP Fx 5 should be jumping to beta tomorrow

[vasa1]

according to the charts in the OP Fx 5 should be jumping to beta tomorrow

Will that concern users staying on the Aurora channel?

[Jamushroom Veteran]

This is the reasoning I could find:

Source: near the bottom here ... https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Aurora/2011-05-03

Things should speed up after a week or so when Aurora moves onto Fx 6.

Hm, but why do we have to install an update each day then? :p

[bogas04]

Will that concern users staying on the Aurora channel?

aurora will remain aurora forever , u have to switch channel to get into beta or stable etc

Beta 1 should be released today (most probably) , for the time-being , we can see lil activity out here (with localized folder and all) , let's wait! :D

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Changeset changed to Beta:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-aurora/pushloghtml?startdate=1+day+ago&enddate=now

[torrentthief]

Changeset changed to Beta:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-aurora/pushloghtml?startdate=1+day+ago&enddate=now

what does that mean? will beta 1 be released today?

[1for-matik]

what does that mean? will beta 1 be released today?

It means that Firefox 5.0 will be pushed in the beta channel...

(Firefox 6.0 will be in Aurora channel and Firefox 7.0 in Nightly channel next week)

[Guest mattburles]

i dont see the beta available officially for download?

[vasa1]

i dont see the beta available officially for download?

It's all a bit confusing to those not really into this stuff :(

I guess just the "merge" has been done. The official update release maybe pending something being done about add-on compatibility. This is just my wild guess.

[vasa1]

i dont see the beta available officially for download?

See you've asked here as well:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2199707&p=10816373#p10816373

[bogas04]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/5.0b2-candidates/build1/

hopefully these are the beta builds

[torrentthief]

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/5.0b2-candidates/build1/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 5.0b2.exe

i presume this is firefox 5.0 beta 1, they have a test build labeled as beta 1 about 3 weeks ago so i presume they may be naming beta 1 as beta 2 or will be overwriting beta 1 later or something.

Just tried it, it has the new features such as .webm playback for urls and "do not track" in options etc, looking good :) it says 5.0 beta channel in the about section, so can't see if it is beta 1 or beta 2.

Changelog is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking#Firefox_5

[DexMorgan]

Finally my preferred channel is up :)

FX 5 Beta looking good so far, seems to be a bit faster.