It’s Firefox Download Day; Download Firefox!
Considering all that Mozilla has done for us – displaced Internet Explorer by giving us what is arguably the best and most versatile web browsing experience, for free – the least we can do is help them out when they ask us for help. What is it they want us to do? Download the latest version of the Firefox browser. Yup, that’s it! Mozilla is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in a 24-hour period. The official release of Firefox 3 will become available for public download at 10:00 am PST / 1:00pm EST and judging by the tremendous loyalty that Firefox users typically display and the crazy amount of buzz, the record should be theirs. We’ve been using version 3 for a while now and we have to say, it’s good stuff. Mozilla claims that Firefox 3 brings with it over 15,000 improvements; no small upgrade! Most notably in our eyes, the latest release candidate is worlds faster than Firefox 2 and gobbles much less resources. It will take about a week for the Guinness World Record judges to review Mozilla’s download logs so we should find out whether or not Mozilla successfully broke the record around this time next week. As of the time this post was written, just under 1,690,000 have pledged that they will download Firefox 3 today.
Downloaded and (finally) installed on two systems so far; one or two more at home and I’ll be done! So far so good.
firefox 3 is
f*****ing fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The automatic update function isn’t work well, but going to the site works now. I got in and downloaded the new .exe file in seconds.
You know, the “awesome bar” was so horrible, I may just blow this one off. Certainly not jumping on the “record” bandwagon, in any case.
For those apple users creating sites in iWeb with picture galleries, Firefox 3 renders any picture galleries useless. A fix was posted at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1563823&tstart=0
I’d like to get excited about FF3, but I’m still PO’d that any time I attempt to download anything with FF on my Mac that it crashes. It also doesn’t know how to render Yahoo mail attachments. Not impressed so far.
On two different computers the main BGR page is pulling up the mobile version in FF3 for Mac OS X… Is this just something on my end?
( Okay, no one respond that it’s because I’m on a Mac.
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Um. It doesn’t work with my .mac created flash web pages.
Blank. SOS
FF is such a hog and Safari is just a better solution for Mac users. If I were a Windows user I’d probably go with it over Windows version of Safari (since it’s still so new) but if I were a Windows user, or Galvatron, I’d hang myself to death in my shower anyway…. Just kidding about the Windows user part…
Don’t download 3.0 if you want the same functionality of the bookmarks as in 2. They’ve changed it. It’s like a dumbed-down Windows Explorer, hard to explain beyond that, but it’s awful. Not as bad as IE’s methods. But I got rid of it as fast as I could after realizing it had put all my un-foldered bookmarks in an almost secret hiding place, and would only allow me to see the contents of one folder of bookmarks at a time. The Mozilla web site has a blog or comments section on 3.0 where you can find a direct link to a download of 2.0. FIE, Mozilla! Why in the world did you do this?
One folder of bookmarks at a time?
wth are you talking about?
Had no trouble locating bookmarks or setting up new ones here.
Any comparison (good or bad) to Windows Explorer is a gross misrepresentation.