Firefox Download Day
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They seem to be begging for a DDOS attack with this publicity stunt. I use FireFox because it sucks a little less than IE. Color me not that excited.
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David Kentley wrote:
I use FireFox because it sucks a little less than IE. Color me not that excited.
Amen. In fact, I use it whatever comes with the OS - IE on Windows, Firefox on most Linux distributions. They both suck :)
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Chris Maunder wrote:
No, sorry. It's another browser.
Yes, but a pretty good one. :)
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Dario Solera wrote:
a pretty good one
Firefox is not a good piece of software by my standards (crashes, eats memory, slow...). Granted, it is a little less bad than IE, but still nothing worth the excitement.
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Dario Solera wrote:
a pretty good one
Firefox is not a good piece of software by my standards (crashes, eats memory, slow...). Granted, it is a little less bad than IE, but still nothing worth the excitement.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
eats memory
From a discussion on a Nokia site Firefox is meant to make use of all the resources available to it, so if you've got the memory it's gonna eat it. Hence why they can't port it to Symbian platforms.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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That's supposed to be today, but their site[^] still says 'Coming soon'. What gives? :^)
It's available the link is just not yet posted. You can download the final release of firefox 3 right now right here: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US[^]
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It's available the link is just not yet posted. You can download the final release of firefox 3 right now right here: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US[^]
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Thanks. :)
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That's supposed to be today, but their site[^] still says 'Coming soon'. What gives? :^)
blackjack2150 wrote:
What gives?
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with inviting the entire planet to download your software on one day but not having the commercial resources of a large company to make sure it all works properly? ;)
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
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Err, I'm using FF3 to post htis: just got it about 10 minutes ago from: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html[^] It is pitched as Relaease Candidate 3: I preumed that was the correct one as the main page is still showing FF2. Wouldn't make me want to give up IE7/8. It's just another browser.
digital man wrote:
It is pitched as Relaease Candidate 3:
:laugh: Um...do you really think the FireFox people invited the entire world to download on the same day a release candidate?
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
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That's supposed to be today, but their site[^] still says 'Coming soon'. What gives? :^)
Mozilla.com said:
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Download day kicks off in fine style :laugh:
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It's a browser. No, sorry. It's another browser. :zzz:
cheers, Chris Maunder
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Well, as a (web-)programmer it is a working tool and I just can't work with IE so I'm pretty happy about it - although the whole date/time debacle of the download day makes them look like idiots.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
No, sorry. It's another browser.
Yes, but a pretty good one. :)
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
Sometimes the voting behavior here is ridiculous. Here's a 5.
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
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That's supposed to be today, but their site[^] still says 'Coming soon'. What gives? :^)
downloaded, installed, went to msn.com, browser crashed :doh:
Steve
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downloaded, installed, went to msn.com, browser crashed :doh:
Steve
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That's supposed to be today, but their site[^] still says 'Coming soon'. What gives? :^)
It's much faster on CP. :D Now, where's my gestures add-on? :((
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It's much faster on CP. :D Now, where's my gestures add-on? :((
You can use MR Tech Toolkit to install extensions that are not compatible with Firefox 3
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You can use MR Tech Toolkit to install extensions that are not compatible with Firefox 3
Giorgi Dalakishvili #region signature my articles #endregion
No worries, found another gesture system.
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Yeah, they've ballsed it up by: a. not publicising the time it was due to start. b. starting at least 18 hours into the publicised day for the majority of the world. c. starting it the day after the publicised for anywhere east of India. 10:00 PDT? Great idea guys :doh:
Ahem.... a. If they didn't, then how did I know it starts at 18:00 in London? And yes, I'm not working in Mozilla b. Since when is Europe "the majority of the world"? c. wtf? O_o And btw, they wanted to set a world record. They said the start time according to their offices, to the server location, and probably according to the time in the place that the record will be recorded in. What's with all the bitching anyway. The told you the time - be patient and wait =/
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They seem to be begging for a DDOS attack with this publicity stunt. I use FireFox because it sucks a little less than IE. Color me not that excited.
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency! -Emily Dickinson
David Kentley wrote:
They seem to be begging for a DDOS attack with this publicity stunt.
Hehe, well the got it.. The first hours the website was down, and I wasn't able to do anything. :)
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Ahem.... a. If they didn't, then how did I know it starts at 18:00 in London? And yes, I'm not working in Mozilla b. Since when is Europe "the majority of the world"? c. wtf? O_o And btw, they wanted to set a world record. They said the start time according to their offices, to the server location, and probably according to the time in the place that the record will be recorded in. What's with all the bitching anyway. The told you the time - be patient and wait =/
a. So, tell me, how did you know? The download day site just said the 17th, and the email they sent said "Download Day will start on June 17, 2008". This looked like their final mail on the matter. Neither suggested that the start time was approximate. What they should've said is that it'd be at some point on the 17th (their time), and that they'd email again once it had started. b. I didn't say Europe though, did I? "At least 18 hours into the publicised day" is everyone east of Iceland through to the international date line. That's a lot of people. c. Not sure whether you've understood here or not. Anyway, it was the 18th in Japan, China and Australia, amongst other places, by the time download day started.
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a. So, tell me, how did you know? The download day site just said the 17th, and the email they sent said "Download Day will start on June 17, 2008". This looked like their final mail on the matter. Neither suggested that the start time was approximate. What they should've said is that it'd be at some point on the 17th (their time), and that they'd email again once it had started. b. I didn't say Europe though, did I? "At least 18 hours into the publicised day" is everyone east of Iceland through to the international date line. That's a lot of people. c. Not sure whether you've understood here or not. Anyway, it was the 18th in Japan, China and Australia, amongst other places, by the time download day started.
a. I agree that they screwed up with the e-mail notification. It did have the link though to the main "record" website (the Spread Firefox one), which had the time (10.00 CPD) and a link to a website with times for each part of the world.. ( they posted that on the 16th of June: here[^]) b. Yeah, you didn't.. But that's the west coast of Europe ;) c. Fair enough.. But if they set the start of the download day on midnight CET or GMT, the Americans would have the Download Day started somewhere in the evening of the day. So someone was bound to have it late anyway. If it's not one it's the other :)
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a. I agree that they screwed up with the e-mail notification. It did have the link though to the main "record" website (the Spread Firefox one), which had the time (10.00 CPD) and a link to a website with times for each part of the world.. ( they posted that on the 16th of June: here[^]) b. Yeah, you didn't.. But that's the west coast of Europe ;) c. Fair enough.. But if they set the start of the download day on midnight CET or GMT, the Americans would have the Download Day started somewhere in the evening of the day. So someone was bound to have it late anyway. If it's not one it's the other :)
Yeah, that forum post is where I eventually read it after asking Google (I don't frequent the Firefox forums, not that much of a fanboy ;) ) I just don't get why they didn't put the info on the main site.