Firefox3 download day

[Steven]

Hi all,

Firefox 3 is coming closer and closer, improving Firefox again As you all know, I highly recommend using either this or Opera. I have been using FF3 for 2 months now and I must say it's a huge leap forward compared to FF2. It uses far less memory, is noticeably faster and has several incredibly handy new features.

When it releases, the makers want to set a world record of the most downloads in a single day. To help with that, add yourself here:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

You can submit your name and email, and you will then be notified when FF3 is available.

[Tom H]

Yes!! I signed up to this already. FireFox is awesome.

[roost89]

Signed up aswell. Let's get this record set!

[Carlos]

Foxy Which for some remote reason reminds me it's Marilyn Monroe's Birthday.
www.marilynmonroe.com/about/photos.html

Yes I signed up.
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Rand Gibbons

[flynfrog]

signed in

[modbaraban]

I'm using both Firefox and Opera. The latter has some handy features for forums (like insertnig drop caps easily ) and general surfing but it often crashes when operating with flash-elements. Firefox is perfec for that. I mosty use it for sites like youtube or any sort of radio or video sream (it's much faster for these!). Highly recommended!

[vyselegend]

Added myself. I'm also using both FF and Opera at home, and all the problems I have had in my life with internet browsers was at work, with IE...

Long life to FireFox!

[Miguel]

If you are using FF2 right now, don't forget to back up your bookmarks! The new FF3 bookmarks are awesome, but this makes it possible that FF2 and FF3 profiles might be slightly incompatible. It may be interesting to backup bookmarks and then create a brand new profile into which importing the bookmarks. I know, because I had a profile I have been using since at least january 2006 (god bless /home partitions), and I was seeing some weird things using FF3 RC1 until I saw these were created by my profile.

As a side note and as a proud linux user, I must say that the way the Mozilla Foundation has treated the linux port lately didn't seem too good for me. However, this new version is much much better under linux, although some fsync issues are still there.

[Miguel]

Most of you will be interested to know that Firefox 3 will be released tomorrow, June 17. I don't know the hour, but I guess it will be 00:00 UTC. In case you are worried by your extension, here's a brief summary made by Alex Polvi a few days ago: http://alex.polvi.net/2008/06/12/state- ... june-12th/

Also, remember to back up your bookmarks! Just in case, you know, but good backups are always welcome.

[Saribro]

Is it just me, or does live timing not work in FF3? (not that it really matters to me, I'm an Opera person)

[Miguel]

Is it just me, or does live timing not work in FF3? (not that it really matters to me, I'm an Opera person)

Mmm... good question. It doesn't work on my Ubuntu 8.04 partition, but I have always blamed Java for this. The latest sun java releases have been a bit buggy, and have required some piping and renaming symlinks to make it work, so I don't know if it's FF3 blame that java doesn't work or if the guilt lays on sun. I don't know if it works on WinXP, because I only use it for some gaming (and wireless sucks in my windows install).

EDIT: I've downloaded the Opera deb and the package has a few java-related files. After installing it, all the jmol visualizations in http://www.cryst.ehu.es seem to work fine. I'll research some more.

EDIT2: A colleague with WinXP and FF3 has just shown me that the above site works fine for him. I'll try to tee the firefox output looking for any interesting stuff.

EDIT3: Fixed it! I'm not 100% sure it will work with the live timing, but it should. It happens that the update-alternative is pointing to the GCJ implementation of java, which doesn't work in certain cases. If you are using Ubuntu (or Debian) and the java plugin doesn't seem to work, you'll probably have to run with root permissions

Code: Select all

update-alternatives --config xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so

There are dirtier ways to achieve this, but this just modifies symlinks in /etc, and this is A Good Thing (TM).

[yzfr7]

Is it just me, or does live timing not work in FF3? (not that it really matters to me, I'm an Opera person)

With java installed it works just fine. I'm running FF3 with ubuntu 8.04 64-bit.

[Saribro]

June 17. I don't know the hour, but I guess it will be 00:00 UTC.

Firefox 3 is officially launched at approximately 10:00 a.m. PDT (17:00 UTC) on Tuesday, June 17th.

[Saribro]

Heh, have your pages down the first 1.5 hours of your launch, then present the old pages for 10 minutes, now the downloadlink still keeps serving up 2.0.0.14...

One would imagine they'd atleast had thought this through beforehand.

[roost89]

Heh, have your pages down the first 1.5 hours of your launch, then present the old pages for 10 minutes, now the downloadlink still keeps serving up 2.0.0.14...

One would imagine they'd atleast had thought this through beforehand.

Yeah, I got an e-mail from them saying it was available only to find out it was still Firefox 2. The world record attempt will be failing then. I wonder when they'll realise the page is still showing FF2 not FF3

They should've had a back-up plan at least. Not good enough Moilla [-X