Firefox 5 Final is now Available for Download

This is the standard misinterpretation of the binaries produced by the release candidate process as being "final".

Firefox 5 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. If no issues are found, it will become the final release. If issues are found, there will be other RCs.

Notice how it's not tagged "release candidate" in any visible way. That's because it's a candidate for being released as final!

If everything goes well, then RC1 will become "final". Otherwise, there will be newer builds.

Y'all are being misled, either purely by accident, or maybe for pageviews and advertising dollars, or maybe some combination thereof. Hope it's unintentional!

EDIT: I work at Mozilla, but not in the release division.

EDIT 2: I don't actually know their motives, so I revised that paragraph to be clear that I don't know.

"According to Mozilla release page Mozilla will officially release Firefox 5 on June 21st. Firefox 5 will not bring any GUI changes instead the design interface will be almost same as Firefox 4. Most of the plugins will not compatible now with Firefox 5."

A very hard English, at least for me.

Where is the 'Mozilla release page'? The link redirects to another technobolt.com article where again is written "Now according to Mozilla release page..."

Searching on the Mozilla's site, there isn't such a 'release page'. Also, Google failed to find such a thing.

Can someone point another source for this news?

Also, "Most of the plugins will not compatible now with Firefox 5." means what? ...that most of the plugins indeed won't work or it is a writter error?

Firefox 5 is not yet released. I browsed their FTP (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/5.0/) and opened the index.html file and saw this: "We aren't quite finished qualifying Firefox 5 yet. You should check out the latest Beta. "

It's obvious that the guys at technobolt.com noticed the availability of some builds in the FTP and thought that they are the final 5.0 builds.