FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Today is Download Day

Help Mozilla and FireFox break (or set?) a world record for the most downloads in 24 hours today.

More Information:

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

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I'd go with set a world record. But I can't wait to use the new features of FF3.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008
 

• Largest Wobble Board Ensemble
  
  The largest wobble board ensemble involved 359 employees of Airmiles, who wobbled their boards for a minimum of 5 minutes to the tune of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport' in Bolton, UK on July 12, 2007.

i just read this on the firefox website. I think at Duel, Moe needs to get 365 people with wobblies to beat this record

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008
 

I didn't know that Firefox 3 was out of beta already already. A little odd that they're trying to set a world record while its still in beta.

Anyway, I've been using the latest Firefox 3 release candidate for a while now (because I find Firefox 2 extremely sluggish to the point of being obnoxious). Although there are some new features, I hardly notice them with the following exceptions

• Better auto-complete in the address bar
• Huge back button
• Not all of my add-ons work (hardly a feature)

However, one problem with it is that it crashes multiple times per day on my computer. This is really just an inconvenience, as I can click the button to restore session and I'm back up and running again in a matter of seconds. Nevertheless, it is a slight problem. I don't know if others have been having this problem or if its just me (I'm running vista on a year-old hp desktop pc)

EDIT: According to spreadfirefox.com, the official release date (and download day) is tomorrow, June 17. It's already here for those on the east coast.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008
 

that's very strange.....

Oh...now I understand....

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008
 

T-minus 20 minutes to download day sequence commences!

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Firefox website is crawling, why couldn't they have just hired Dave to encrypt it and taunt the world about the password?

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

The place where I work at, Mercury Marine, still has IE from Windows 98 on a Windows XP...lol and Lotus Notes...It works well though when you want a basic explorer to test all of my coldfusion and etc on it...I will definitly download Firefox 3 on my home computer though!!!!

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

from mozilla.com "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

This post done on Firefox 3.0

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Firefox 3.0 Record Download Attempt Crashes Mozilla Servers

Mozilla hopes to successfully complete 5 million downloads of the Web browser in 24 hours and set a Guinness World Record.

By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
June 17, 2008 02:05 PM

Mozilla's record-breaking attempt to massively release Firefox 3.0, the latest version of the only Web browser to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, unfortunately broke some of its servers as well.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

They aren't, FF3.0 was released today.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Well, I somehow got through the traffic and downloaded. It is shiny!

-Vivek

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

This link worked for me. Works nicely so far

www.getfirefox.com

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

My son downloaded it and I installed it. Looks about the same...but then, it used all my preferences that I set long ago when I used mozilla 1

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

So far the changes have been more of a nuisance than a help. I guess it'll grow on me as I get used to it, but I kinda regret deleting FF2.0.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

I got it last night, after the rush had calmed down, but I didn't get to install it until just a minute ago. I kind of like it so far.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Look at what ya did, ya got me using FF. I said I'd never use it.

I really do like it though. Hope i can say I was part of a world record.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Mind qualifying the "nuisances," Lav? I've rather enjoying the version. It's a tad shiny, but very nice.

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Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

They tell us it's a serious risk. But they can't tell us what it is, now I'm a little paranoid.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

The only significant one is recent sites list. While it's cool that it looks at the entire name, and not just the beginning, it ends up with me having to scroll through more results to get the one I want. I'm not a huge fan of the new look of the tabs either, but that's not a huge deal. Same with actually having to click on the RSS feeds to see the results rather than just scrolling over them.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

I found an Easter egg that fits perfectly here. Type "about:robots" into your address bar and you will find a great surprise;) I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw this.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

I've been using Firefox 3 since Grand Paradiso. I downloaded FF2 and was like "hmmm what is this on their site" and I downloaded it. I used it and downloaded every update until it became beta, and as soon as it did I ran through all of them up to the release candidates testing some of the neat feature and stuff. After the address bar the Beta became my main browser.

I'm finally glad that actually released FF3. I thought they enjoyed the hype sooo much they were gonna keep it forever....

Pavan

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Anyone know how to make it so I stay logged into CD. I know it's Firefox, because if I log in on Internet Explorer, I'll stay logged. And I am hitting the "remember me" option, so it isn't that.

Re: FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT
 

Make sure you don't have a Firewall or Ad Blocker which blocks browser cookies; if you do, over ride it to allow do something like only allowing cookies from originating website.