CyberBunk

There were mumblings around midnight last night that the Firefox 3 final version had been uploaded to the Mozilla public ftp server prior to the official release at 10am San Francisco time. There were also copies flying around the BitTorrent network, often accompanied with cries of “FAKE FAKE!!”. It seems there is some confusion as to whether these early releases are the real deal, or just the Release Candidate 3, based largely on the fact that the RC3 and so called “Final” releases appeared to be identical.

As it turns out the RC3 has been re-released as the final version without modification, a fact supported by the files themselves:

and in the MD5SUMS files on the Mozilla FTP

So if you, like myself, are already running the RC3 version of Firefox3, and don’t feel the need to add to the download count on spreadfirefox.com, save your bandwidth (and the download servers) and don’t bother downloading it again.