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"[...]— hopefully by next week.""

TR Daggett — Thu, 8 May 2008 17:32:47 -0400

It really shouldn't be long now.

After reading your comment I checked a couple of places. The best places I've found to keep track of the latest goings-on is the "Mozillazine" Forums and the "Mozilla Developer News".

The Forum section called "Firefox Builds", and especially the 'thread' about the latest [Trunk] 'build' (right near the top) named "The Official Win32 20080509 [Trunk] build is not yet out." (the date and the last part varies between "out" & "not yet out") usually have the latest information.

The Mozilla Developer News isn't as current as the Forum, but there's some info there, and there's a link to a Mozilla Product Manager Alex Polvi's blog (this link is to his page talking about the top ten Add-ons for Firefox that aren't quite ready).

[UPDATE]: As I scrolled down [that] blog page reading the comments, at the bottom I found this post (by Alex Polvi):

"polvi Says:

May 8th, 2008 at 6:19 am

Joe, RC1 is due to be out very soon — hopefully by next week."

So there you go Susan, straight from a Mozilla Product Manager's blog (posted today!). Although I'd say the operative word is "hopefully". I've been thinking we might see it in June, but we'll see. It seems that for this release they're going to have a good percentage of the most popular [third-party] Add-ons fully compatible at release time. In the past I've always waited to update because many of my favorite Add-ons took a while to be updated by their developers. This is a welcome change!

By the way, the MozillaZine Forums are the place to get help & advice for all Mozilla products.

But [FYI & everyone's], PLEASE read "Looking for help? Check out these resources:" (at the top of the Forum's Home page/Index).

"Search the knowledge base" should be your starting point. If after searching thoroughly you don't find an answer, be sure to post your question in the appropriate section.

Take Care

Phishing

Susan Sherrouse — Tue, 6 May 2008 10:18:33 -0400

TR,

Your columns, as always are timely. I just updated my Thunderbird yesterday, and I've also downloaded the Firefox 3 Beta 5, on the advice of my son-in-law.

It's interesting your topic of phishing. I've been inundated with e-mail wishing me congratulations, I've won some lottery, or some one wants me to be their beneficiary, or someone has died and left me piles of money. All they need is my checking account number and routing code so they can put the money in to my accounts. HA! Like I'm actually going to give that information out!

But it is surprising how many people do this. A well educated woman I know was staying at a very good hotel down in Nashua for a 2-day conference. She received a call in the middle of the night asking her to verify her credit card information, as it wasn't clearing. She proceeded to GIVE them ANOTHER CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!!! Anyone knows that once you check in, your credit card is run and a hold is placed on your account for the amount of money it's anticipated you will spend. Fortunately for her, she told her husband the next day, and he canceled the card, before any damage was done.

You are absolutely right on the phishing scams. If it doesn't feel right, call the company. Anyone doing business will appreciate the extra time you've taken to insure that your information remains secure.

Off topic, do you have any idea as to when the new Firefox will be released?

Thanks again,

Susan

Be Smarter Than A Fish

TR Daggett — Mon, 5 May 2008 21:54:24 -0400

...And don't get 'hooked' by phishing email asking for account information!

I want to get these links* out to you while I can. Lately I've been reading about online criminals using the same old 'line' in their phishing emails to hook suckers. Evidently there's no shortage of people dumb enough to fall for the old "There's a problem with your account and we need you to update your account information for us".