madeinheaven Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Firefox 5 First Release Candidate (RC1) Now AvailableToday Mozilla released the first Release Candidate (RC1) of Firefox 5 , the upcoming version of Firefox browser. As we already know Mozilla got inspired from Google chrome and adopted rapid release development process.If you don't know, the term release candidate (RC) refers to a version with potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless fatal bugs emerge, So we can expect the Firefox 5 final release on June 21 as per schedule. Now the Firefox 5 Firefox 5 RC 1 released after going through 7 beta stages of testing.What's new in Firefox 5 RC1 Added support for CSS animations The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas Improved spell checking for some locales Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance The Firefox development channel switcher introduced in previous Firefox Beta updates has been removedDownload Firefox 5 RC 1 :Firefox 5 RC 1 is available for download for both desktop and android platforms. If you already installed Firefox 5 beta you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours or you can download it manually from Firefox Beta channel page.Download LinkDownload Firefox 5 RC1SOURCE : developer.mozilla.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Is this RC the same as Beta 7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madeinheaven Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 Is this RC the same as Beta 7?In the download link it says Firefox 5.0b7 but look at the webpage i am guessing they use Firefox 5.0b7 as an RC1Here is the news comes from:https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2011/06/15/firefox-beta-channel-release-candidate-now-available/Then they give the download link below;To manually download the latest pre-release software from the various development channels, please visit: Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/channel/ Firefox mobile: http://www.mozilla.com/m/firefox/channel/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 The Beta 7 is the RC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madeinheaven Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 More news different source:I know it is confusing :fear: http://www.techno360.in/firefox-5-rc/http://techdows.com/2011/06/firefox-5-first-release-candidate-rc1-now-available.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chlorophyll Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releasesin da above link its stated that firefox 5 getting ready to be FINAL on 21st june 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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