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

Other Chit-Chat
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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.

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  •      **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

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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.

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that’s very strange…

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

Oh…now I understand…

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T-minus 20 minutes to download day sequence commences!

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

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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!!!

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from mozilla.com “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”

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This post done on Firefox 3.0

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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.

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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.

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

-Vivek

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This link worked for me. Works nicely so far

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Oh great. Now they tell us after we download the upgrade…:rolleyes: