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That's what Mozilla Weave does!

You are misinformed.

And not just mine. See http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=79084&forumId=1 I even tried to post a story on ./ but apparently it's rejected.

The theme system was gutted. You can't make your browser look the same across multiple platforms even if you want to.

http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2008/05/14/firefox-3-themes/

Used to be, if you wanted your browser consistent with the OS, you could just pick a theme that was designed for that purpose. Now, you have no choice.

Just another statistic: if I have my dates right, it took IE7 2.5 months to reach 100 million users. Firefox is currently at 23 million and given the current rate (1080/min), FF3 on pace to beat that - even without being distributed as part of an OS (granted, IE7 was only part of volume licensing at that date, and not retail sales).

If its an @msn.com address, particually with Hotmail, try and the associated bug report. I think it might be related.

Actually, I think you'll find Hotmail has more of a habit of losing non-spam messages.

Hotmail has another weird bug with firefox - some accounts (mostly @msn.com) have to log in twice. Here's a long forum post about it, here's a pretty bug report, and here's an easy fix.

Actually, I think you'll find Hotmail has more of a habit of losing non-spam messages.

Hotmail has another weird bug with firefox - some accounts (mostly @msn.com) have to log in twice. Here's a long forum post about it, here's a pretty bug report, and here's an easy fix.

i thought i'd reply to you, since you were the biggest asshole with your response.

since you use gmail so much, you should know that it's most recent versions have a 'standard' view that displays your chat and all kinds of widgets, and the "html" view.

when i would log in, i would get the status bar "loading gmail"...it would stop about 75% of the way through, then after awhile an error message would occur saying something to the effect of "there was an error loading gmail...load the 'html' basic view, or go to the 'help' page"

at the help page, it tells you basically it is either alot of web traffic or your cookies and cache that are causing gmail not to load in 'standard' mode. its solution is to use the 'html' version or "go to tools>options>clear private data>" including cache and cookies...i tried just manually deleting my cache and only google's cookies but it didn't work

yes, many, many people have this problem but the only fix offered is 'clear private data' fix offered up by gmail's help page.

So, you still want to be an asshole? is that enough fscking information for you, you fscking know-it-all douchebag? fsck! I didn't even ask for "help" in my original post, i just asked if Opera loaded Gmail better...

For someone who likes to come off like you know so much more than me about the internet, you should at least be aware that gmail had these loading problems on FF 2+...I hate how people like you power trip

http://en-gb.fxfeeds.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/headlines.xml

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

and of course my own
http://www.theinane.com/feed

Web Comics.
http://the.holybibble.net/?feed=rss2

Certain torrent sites.
http://www.demonoid.com/rss/0.xml

news feeds for multiple project sites.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/InsanelyMac

Newgrounds.
http://rss.ngfiles.com/dailytop5.xml

plus a ton more. i organize them via thunderbird.

Doesn't the Awesome bar just search the "URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history"

Opera searches the full text of the page as well as all those (well there aren't tags in opera but the description of the page in the bookmarks is searched as well). I can start typing in the text of a slashdot article I've visited a while back and it will display in the dropdown from the address bar. I can also assign certain bookmarks keywords such as slashdot being /. typed into the address bar.

I do admit that the learning feature that the awesome bar supposedly has (never used it enough to see) seems like it might be nice if it knows that a site you visited once doesn't have the same importance to you as one you've selected from the awesomebar 100 times. I've grown to like learning things like that once you get them trained (such as Launchy). I don't know if Opera does this (again, never used that feature enough to see).

drachenstern: I assume that you mean Firefox add-ons, not plugins (since plugins like Flash, etc. would be OS-specific), and as far as I know there isn't anything that does this currently, but this seems like an awesome idea for a Weave add-on.

Weave already provides sync features for bookmarks, history, cookies, saved passwords, and saved form data; without looking into it, it seems that what you're asking for is a logical expansion via the add-on framework that Mozilla Labs appears to have in mind.

drachenstern: I assume that you mean Firefox add-ons, not plugins (since plugins like Flash, etc. would be OS-specific), and as far as I know there isn't anything that does this currently, but this seems like an awesome idea for a Weave add-on.

Weave already provides sync features for bookmarks, history, cookies, saved passwords, and saved form data; without looking into it, it seems that what you're asking for is a logical expansion via the add-on framework that Mozilla Labs appears to have in mind.

drachenstern: I assume that you mean Firefox add-ons, not plugins (since plugins like Flash, etc. would be OS-specific), and as far as I know there isn't anything that does this currently, but this seems like an awesome idea for a Weave add-on.

Weave already provides sync features for bookmarks, history, cookies, saved passwords, and saved form data; without looking into it, it seems that what you're asking for is a logical expansion via the add-on framework that Mozilla Labs appears to have in mind.

drachenstern: I assume that you mean Firefox add-ons, not plugins (since plugins like Flash, etc. would be OS-specific), and as far as I know there isn't anything that does this currently, but this seems like an awesome idea for a Weave add-on.

Weave already provides sync features for bookmarks, history, cookies, saved passwords, and saved form data; without looking into it, it seems that what you're asking for is a logical expansion via the add-on framework that Mozilla Labs appears to have in mind.

Let's road test the instructions for the application that matters most to Linux. Do they work, could they be more succinct?

1) The download.

The site defaults to the download option. Why would you try anything else?
The installation instructions are don't say what you do thereafter, and simple distro specific lines, e.g. "type 'yum update fedora' as root" are not given as an option without digging around on the site. Hence...

2) Unpacking and running the installer. I unpacked the tarball, hopefully to find a INSTALL.TXT inside:

tar xvf firefox-3.0.tar-1
ls
cd firefox
ls
more README.txt

This was to a URL that redirected back to square one - the page with no useful instructions. Several clicks later I found them:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Linux#Installing_outside_of_a_package_manager

Silly me for not finding that page before unpacking the tarball. I followed these to then try to run the installer - ./firefox (with path or else the browser launches). I did this as root with the browser closed down. This came up with an error that xhost+ could not fix. This error could have said - 'you are running as root, hit CTRL+D and try again' but it did not.

I then tried enabling all the depositories for the 'yum update firefox' route as well as the package manager search. This did not work and held me back by some time. I gave the command line a try as a normal user. Note that 'yum' is run as root - I expected FF3 to have an installer that would be the same or an error message that made things clear.

The instructions lead me down the command line route. Nowhere was I told whether I needed to close down my existing browser session or not. The use of the folder browser was not suggested either.

The quicker way is with the folder browser:

Download tarball. Extract it to the home folder.
This will create a 'firefox' folder.
Open it with the graphical file browser and double click on the 'firefox' icon.
Choose to run this in a terminal window and you are all set.

Now, I know what you are asking, what happened to the 39 tabs?

Miraculously they all loaded again with FF3, unscathed.

A lot of the complaints about the Awesomebar have been that bookmarks which have not been visited show up in the results. Luckily, there is now an extension to make the Awesomebar show history only.

Also, if you are not sure what the point of the Awesomebar is, Mike Beltzner recorded an informative 2-minute screencast showcasing what the Awesomebar can do.

Finally, Support Firefox Day is this Friday, which will include interactive video workshops and Q&A about the new bookmarks features. Several Mozilla developers will be in attendance, so it is a great chance to voice your opinions. The new bookmarks and history API is very flexible, so extensions will no doubt make it better.

A lot of the complaints about the Awesomebar have been that bookmarks which have not been visited show up in the results. Luckily, there is now an extension to make the Awesomebar show history only.

Also, if you are not sure what the point of the Awesomebar is, Mike Beltzner recorded an informative 2-minute screencast showcasing what the Awesomebar can do.

Finally, Support Firefox Day is this Friday, which will include interactive video workshops and Q&A about the new bookmarks features. Several Mozilla developers will be in attendance, so it is a great chance to voice your opinions. The new bookmarks and history API is very flexible, so extensions will no doubt make it better.

• Can render many different doctypes: HTML 4.01 traditional, HTML 4.01 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.1, RSS, etc, etc, etc
• Includes a Javascript interpreter
• Has its own platform-independent GUI drawing code, and those widgets are designed to match the native widgets on each platform
• Supports UTF-8 and many, many other character encodings.
• Stores bookmark and preference data in a RDBMS (not a very capable one, admittedly, but still)
• Has a plugin framework
• Runs on virtually every OS that is still in use
• Is very friendly to web developers (e.g., supports neat stuff like Firebug)
• And a zillion other features.

Early I had the the download counter up and I noticed Germany's downloads per minute jump to over 4000. The US was at around 1300, UK, Spain and France which have populations similar to German (give or take 20 million) at around 200. So I think unless the Germans really are that crazy about firefox and all started to download it at that exact same time then there must of been a bot automating the download from within Germany. As it stands Germany has about 800,000 downloads overall. UK - 340,000. France - 325,000. Spain - 330,000. USA - 2.8 mil http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

For all those who tried 3.0 and want to go back, here's a link to save you a lot of searching on mozilla's website: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

As of 10:39AM PST (-8:00 GMT), Mozilla reported over 8 Million downloads:

http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

<<<<<<< .mine

It took me a while to find it, but you can find a nice downloadcounter at http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/ They're at about 6.5 million at the time of posting.

As unwise as it may be to post a link to the download counter on slashdot, you can find a real time counter here.

By my calculations, they won't be able to hit the 10 million mark in time.

http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/ As of this post ~1.15 million downloads, at ~7550 per minute. I'd say their goal well in hand.

# ./firefox
Error: in (function call): procedure or syntax required but got: Error: fatal: looped fatal error

I guess there is a plugin or setting error, or something. A google search for this generates a lot of people with the same problem but no solution.

It's funny.. that spreadfirefox.com has a "DOWNLOAD FIREFOX 3" link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox?p=downloadday Which only gives firefox 2.0.0.14 download links.. Seems they have some problems.. doesn't help with the world record stuff..

This is one of the Ajax requests that page makes:

http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/data.php?reports=report_total_downloads

I'm waiting for it to load =D

I wonder what this is ...

http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

I got mine from
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/win32/en-US/
last night, and as far as I'm able to tell (looking at help->"about mozilla firefox" and help-> "release notes" ) what I have is 3.0; not the RC.

Of course there's nothing to say they didn't change the "release notes" page on me, either...

I'm sure this has been posted a million times but I just finished downloading it from:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

Just went to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday and got a download button that says:

Firefox 3
Free Download
2.0.0.14 for Windows
English (US) (7.8MB)

And, indeed, if you click it, you end up downloading version 2.0.0.14. Fix this, guys...

Like someone else noticed the link that said Firefox 3 was for awhile reading 2.0.0.14 in the fine print and the URL was parsed for that version.

They did update that. Though it is still being stupidly slow.

Here is the corrected link:
http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

So... it has started?

I was a bit confused here. Especially since the link at
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday
displays big old "Firefox 2" for me.

Wrong link? It shouldn't be, it was straight from the official mail from admin@spreadfirefox.com. Click link... Firefox2! Yay! Err... no, wait.

There is even a "Firefox 3 Sneak Peek!" link on the page htey linked. Did someone screw up a cache or did someone forget to flip an important switch?

If it's not just me, it is hillarious ;)

Firefox 3
Free Dowload
2.0.0.14 for Linux i686
English (US) (9.2 MB)

Firefox 3 version 2.0.0.14... Nice!

I've just received my notification to download Firefox and contribute to the record. When I happily click on the link, the target site says FireFox 3 (2.0.0.14 for Windows). Ok, maybe it's my regional settings, so I head to other systems and languages, to find out that every release is 2.0.0.14

I've just received my notification to download Firefox and contribute to the record. When I happily click on the link, the target site says FireFox 3 (2.0.0.14 for Windows). Ok, maybe it's my regional settings, so I head to other systems and languages, to find out that every release is 2.0.0.14

And yes, the front page has been updated, and it has pink and yellow UFOs now! With new alien technology, I suppose they will have an easy time supporting the server load now.

I managed to finally get to their page but it only lists a bunch of localized builds of Firefox 2.0.0.14 and a couple of builds of 3.0rc3 that are listed as beta. This is at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html which is where I automatically get redirected when I go to mozilla.com.

So where are we supposed to get FF3 from?

FIrefox 3
Free Download
2.0.0.14

So I think it's a legitimate question. Am I missing something? Maybe they're still working the kinks out but maybe it's just me. It's 11:31pst

The mozilla.com homepage is redirecting to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html Maybe the RC3 is actually the final version.. The page is taking forever to load though. Also of interest, Germany is downloading over 800 copies a minute and growing. The US is at 500 and dropping. http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

The mozilla.com homepage is redirecting to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html Maybe the RC3 is actually the final version.. The page is taking forever to load though. Also of interest, Germany is downloading over 800 copies a minute and growing. The US is at 500 and dropping. http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

Right now on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday there's a SVN merge conflict. You would have thought they would prepare for this event a bit more solidly...

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/06/17/firefox-3-coming-soon/ "The outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around Firefox 3 has been overwhelming (literally!). Our servers are currently feeling the burn and should be back to normal shortly. Download day will officially commence once the site goes live. The 24 hours period will be clocked from that moment. Thanks for your continued support." Posted by Melissa Shapiro There we have it... We helped slashdot Mozilla. :P