Why does Mozilla's repo claim Firefox 26.0 is not quite ready?

Does anybody know what has happened to the binaries Mozilla provides for x86_64 Linux builds of Firefox? I'm asking because Arch recently updated to Firefox 26.0 and this is the version now available from the main Mozilla site. However, it isn't possible to download 64 bit builds there - only 32 bit. Normally, I obtain Firefox from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org … x86_64/cy/ but this is still offering me 25.0.1. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org … /releases/ includes a directory for 26.0 but accessing https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org … ases/26.0/ gives me a message saying that 26.0 is not quite ready and I should download the beta if I can't wait.
Recently, I had to switch locations because the site I was using no longer provided the files. However, switching to ftp.mozilla.org seemed to solve that issue. Moreover, I'm confused by the message I'm getting since 26.0 clearly is now the stable version so it makes no sense to say it isn't get ready for release.
I've tried searching for alternative locations but I'm turning up a great many sites offering 64 bit builds for Windows, and I'm not sure how trustworthy they are anyway. I would rather download from Mozilla with a checksum I can verify against Mozilla's key and use to check the integrity of the archive I've got. Right now, checksums etc. are not available either for 26.0.
Note that I rely on Mozilla's builds because Arch's does not work in my preferred user interface language.
EDIT: I get the same issue if I navigate to the releases parent of the source of the archive in Arch's PKGBUILD even though wget finds the source bzip2 OK if I try to download it directly. This is really weird.
EDIT: Note to self: never fail to try the bleeding obvious:
$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/26.0/linux-x86_64/cy/firefox-26.0.tar.bz2
$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/26.0/SHA512SUMS
$ wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/26.0/SHA512SUMS.asc
Still seems very odd, though.
So now my question is: does anybody know why?
Last edited by cfr (2013-12-12 01:27:29)

Interesting. In my case that does not seem to be the case.
I'm running x86_64 and I use the 64 bit version.
Also, in my case, although a 32 bit version should run on a 64 bit version I get library errors if I install the 32 bit version in my Arch system.
So I must conclude that the update retrieves the correct 64 bit version or I would get errors ... and I do not.
Perhaps if you contact the MDN irc at irc://irc.mozilla.org/mdn you can get an answer to your question.
R.

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