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

[Michelle Celio]

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

[SamC]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

Help Mozilla and FireFox break (or set?) a world record

Originally Posted by spreadfirefox.com

Join us in our mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours!

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

[Mike Schroeder]

• 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

[NickE]

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.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by NickE

(because I find Firefox 2 extremely sluggish to the point of being obnoxious).

that's very strange.....

(I'm running vista on a year-old hp desktop pc)

Oh...now I understand....

[Pat McCarthy]

T-minus 20 minutes to download day sequence commences!

[Joe G.]

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

[CarterM]

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!!!!

[MrForbes]

from mozilla.com "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

[IndySam]

This post done on Firefox 3.0

[MrForbes]

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.

[tdlrali]

A little odd that they're trying to set a world record while its still in beta.

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

[vivek16]

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

-Vivek

[wilsonmw04]

This link worked for me. Works nicely so far

www.getfirefox.com

[MrForbes]

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