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1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days
Dodger73 writes "The Mozilla guys would have liked to reach 1 Million downloads of the Firefox 1.0 pre-release version within ten days of its release. After four days, the download counter now shows 1,006,060 downloads, surpassing the 10^6 mark more than twice as fast as they desired! Congratulations!"
I can't believe this. 1.0PR is a *down*-grade from 0.9.3. Because:
1) Switching tabs does not update the window title. WTF?! I don't want my window to have the wrong title! It isn't the first tab or anything like that. Just whichever one it likes.
2) I don't want a fucking top bar every time a popup is blocked. What was wrong with the icon at the bottom? Oh yeah, SP2 added their "Information Bar" crap, so Firefox has to have it! What if the popup comes up after a few seconds? Does all the page content move down to allow for their Information Bar thing? (I don't know, somebody tell)
3) When you stop loading a page, its favicon still stays instead of the other site's one. Now you can read the old page with a completely unrelated favicon. Ooh, great!
4) I don't know why, but the automated installing extensions thing doesn't work (for Shockwave at least). Looked cool though.
5) I stay focused in this text box, switch tabs, and I can keep typing into this box. Obviously I should be find-as-you-type-ing into the new tab.
The only cool new thing is the bottom Find-as-you-type bar.
Maybe my installation is messed up?
I won't respond in kind to your expletive, but I will acknowledge that the right of an infant to safety and the chance of a healthy birth does indeed supersede rationalizations against and attempts to cut that life short. Support the rights of unborn women just as much as those who were born. Infanticide is barbaric, even moreso than war. Unfortunately, this is off-topic here. Slashdot should consider posting an abortion issue in the politics section. This is, after all, the primary issue of the 2004 campaign for a very large and growing number of Americans.
http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
> make the best browser on Windows
Translation: IE users refuse to use Mozilla, so we're going to turn it into an almost exact IE Clone.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's funny to see how quickly they managed to copy XPSP2's "information bar" that appears when popups or activex controls are blocked.
I have already stumbled across a page that kicked me off for not using IExploder or a Gecko-based browser. Apparently you Firefox fans have forgotten what it was like to be the underdog. You don't care about freedom, choice and open standards, you only care about your pet project kicking everyone else off the hill.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!