Data Circle

Last night I was browsing the web as usual when suddenly Firefox wanted to install an update that it had downloaded silently in the background. It still marked itself as “version 1.5” and I couldn’t find anything on the Mozilla web site so I guessed that it couldn’t be the final release, but neither was there any information about a second release candidate. It wasn’t until I saw Firefox 1.5 RC2 Available on Slashdot that I realised what had happened.

Apparently the new release candidate only includes “several fixes to automated update system”, at least according to the release notes, although there are no specifics at to what these fixes are. I’m surprised at the Mozilla Foundation for putting out a new release without simultaneously putting this in their release notes and RSS feed, hopefully it won’t happen again because it’s rather confusing having a new version downloading in the background when you don’t know that one has been released.