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I downloader the new standalone launcher today, but everytime I run it, i get this:

Bootstrap started
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 3/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 4/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 5/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 6/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 7/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 8/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:83)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:367)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:116)
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:51)
at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.launch(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:52)

Please fix the error and restart.

What do I do?

I tried disabling firewall but it didn't work

It randomly sterted working:)

Well, now the update Notes is stuck at "Loading page.." And it's not letting me Play or Play Offline while version, multiplayer, and login all have ???

Launcher 1.0.5 (through bootstrap 4) started on osx...
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Mac OS X'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '10.8.3'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86_64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.6.0_43'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Apple Inc.'
Going to log in with legacy stored username & password...
Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'Me'
Trying to log in...
Logging in with access token
Couldn't go online
net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.exceptions.AuthenticationException: Cannot contact authentication server
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:133)
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.logInWithToken(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:97)
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.logIn(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:50)
at net.minecraft.launcher.ui.sidebar.login.NotLoggedInForm$1.run(NotLoggedInForm.java:159)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:439)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(InputRecord.java:422)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.read(InputRecord.java:460)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:863)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1188)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1215)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1199)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:434)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:166)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1014)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:230)
at net.minecraft.launcher.Http.performPost(Http.java:61)
at net.minecraft.launcher.authentication.yggdrasil.YggdrasilAuthenticationService.makeRequest(YggdrasilAuthenticationService.java:116)
... 9 more

Going to play offline as 'ronroy123'...