By Brian Proffitt
Managing Editor
Several media outlets, likely anticipating the expected public
release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 this week, are reporting that the
release has already occured today.
Unfortunately for Firefox fans, the reports of this release are
premature.
What has been billed as the released code is actually a nightly
build used internally by the Firefox development team. Thus far
eWeek, Ars Technica, ZDNet UK, Digg.com, and Slashdot are among the
media sites linking to this development version.
Developers of Firefox are asking interested users to not
download this particular build, indicating that this build will not
auto-update and, because it is not on the FTP/rsync mirror servers,
continued heavy download traffic is effectively DDOSing the Firefox
development FTP server.
The highly anticipated release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 is expected
this week, and users are advised to await the official announcement
from Mozilla.org before downloading the beta product.