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Firefox Goes for World Download Record
Kelson writes "For the upcoming release of Firefox, Mozilla is preparing Download Day 2008: a campaign to set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Participants are asked to pledge to download Firefox 3 on the day that it's launched. The exact date hasn't been scheduled yet, but everything seems on track for June."
... these are the same idiots that thought that a beta of windows vista was the single largest software download: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/06/windows-vista-for-guinness-world.html
... and apparently there is no "world record" to break anyway: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/05/mozillas-latest-firefox-launch.html
show of hands: who downloaded a linux dvd iso larger than 3.5 gigabytes before vista beta was released?
and, are they not going to consider the millions of copies of, say, internet explorer 7, downloaded the first day it was forced through as an automatic update? or how many downloads of itunes are there in a day when apple _requires_ an update?
Anything goes; there is currently no world record in this category.
Weird, I have the release candidate, you know you can still actually use as a location bar and ignore the search, it still drops down and give suggestions of previously typed in URLs
Don't see the problem
I would say that's untrue at this point. del.icio.us released their updated version, Web Developer, noscript, adblock and firebug is on FF3. In fact, I'd say most popular plugins have made the move.
Who cares about "popular" plugins, the point is that the plugins that _I_ need don't work. For example Google Sync.
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And something Opera invented first! (Among other things like tabbed browsing, mouse gestures in a browser, a zoom feature that also resizes images, etc, etc.). And Opera 9.50 even searches the contents of pages you have visited for more WIN.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
Have you tried the Mozilla Weave project? It offers bookmark syncing among other synching features. It will likely be integrated into the browser at somepoint. http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/
Yeah, it's amazing how Mark Shuttleworth made billions in IT and started the most popular Linux distribution without even having a computer.
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Then use the Nightly Tester Tool plugin to force it to work. Plugins will only work natively in Firefox 3 if the developer specifically typed that version in. I'm running Firefox RC1 at the moment and every plugin I need, large and small, works. Not all out of the box, but with Nightly Tester Tools, I can enable them and force them to work. As long as they're not dependent on an API that changed, which could be likely depending on the plugin, they will work.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Yup. They say they're going for 5M downloads. Firefox 2 got 1.6M on its first day. Says so here
The state you are in while your HEAD is detached... - wait, what?
WoW clients download the majority of the larger updates weeks in advance of them being applied, and Wowwiki have a very popular patch mirror page.
Most plugins do work in 3.0. You just have to disable version checking in FF.
I thought there was going to be a FF RC2 as well. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-3-0-Release-Candidate-2-RC2-Gets-the-Green-Light-86752.shtml
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And the slashdot parser eats your alligator, which is why we were using those phrases.
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You know, I've actually made up this shit. Whoever even looked at about:config, saw that there is no such key. And even when you add it, it doesn't work.
/me losing some of my /. karma.)
The person who modded me informative... Has done something stupid. It only shows how stupid people are to not think for themselves... Tell them something that sounds remotely reasonable, something that they might agree with, and they'll believe, they'll follow.
Right. Into. A. Trap.
(I know I'm risking getting modded down to the hell. But who cares. Even only one awaken mind is worth
Google Browser Sync is dependent on an API that changed. Nightly Tester Tools can't make it work. Sadly, this is a showstopper for me.
wget -c will exit immediately as the file is fully downloaded ;)
#3 isn't wrong. It doesn't have an addon/extension system. Built-in customization features do not count. Opera has no where near the extensibility of Firefox.
Don't get me wrong, I like Opera. I use it at work because it has the most compatibility with the websites I have to use without being IE. It's very fast and has a small footprint, CPU and memory-wise, but I just can't use it for my everyday surfing, simply because it lacks the ability to extend/support addons. The main addon I can't live without is adblock plus. Yes, I know Opera can do ad blocking, but who wants to add them by editing a file? And don't forget, adblock plus has pre-defined adblock list sources, so you don't even have to build your own just to get a decent amount of ads blocked; the list does it automatically.
Living without something like Adblock Plus is a deal breaker when using a browser.