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Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST
boustrophedon writes "Starting at midnight in their local timezones, downloaders have been asking when Firefox 3 will be ready for Firefox Download Day, June 17, 2008. Mary announced on the Spread Firefox Forum that downloads will commence at 10 AM PST." That means 1 p.m. East Coast time, and, in Justin Mason's view, some pretty annoying times of day for many parts of the world.
Reader CorinneI supplies a link to PC Magazine's (very positive) overview of the new version's features, which praises the "speedy performance, thrifty memory usage, and, in particular, the address bar that now predicts where you want to go when you start typing (what Mozilla insiders refer to as the Awesome Bar)." FF3, even in Beta and RC form, and even with the extension incompatibilities I've run into, has quickly replaced FF2 as my preferred browser — for me, the improved drop-down autocomplete behavior alone is enough to justify the switch.
be downloading FF!
IE 5 is good enough for me!
Great, only 20456:55:40 to go!
I think 'free' uses the same number of zeros in Euros as it does in dollars.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Actually, at the current exchange rate 0 Euros is a few bucks or so.
in Justin Mason's view, some pretty annoying times of day for many parts of the world
Sure, I can see lining up at my daughter's GameStop store at midnight, considering that whatever game they want may be sold out quickly.
But a download? Who cares what time of day it's available? If it's available at 1:00 AM your time, then just start the download when you wake up, or when you get home from work.
They're not going to run out of Firefoxes, you know. Relax.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Sure, but how much smoke do they have?
you must have a different clock than the rest of us... 10am PST is still an hour away for me...
My finding is that... it's fun to click the back button. It's pretty, round, and stands out. It literally POPS off the screen to say "Hello, please click me!".
Sadly enough, this is a completely serious post.
> It literally POPS off the screen to say "Hello, please click me!".
Where the hell did you buy that monitor?
25% Funny, 25% Insightful, 25% Informative, 25% Troll
But if he waits too long, they might run out. ;-)
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
"Who modded this informative? Whoever it is must've been smokin' some of that martian pot!"
Hmmm, Windows and STD in the same post, wish I could say I was surprised.
You obviously don't have my internet connection. I was hoping they'd do this on the fall daylight savings time day so I'd have an extra hour.
It's not like we all have to sprint to our computers and start it on the minute.
In fact, the organisers are probably relying on the fact that we won't. If a record-breaking number of downloads for a 24 hour period occurred all starting within a few minutes of each other, I don't think even mozilla.org's servers would survive for long.
Heathen! It _should_ say "About Iceweasel". You Ubuntuers and your impure software practices!
Uh oh.
Life is rarely fair. Cherish the moments when there is a right answer.
The site seems to be bogged down for some reason...
life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think
The servers, the servers, the servers are on fire.
The servers, the servers, the servers are on fire.
We don't need to download let the motherf***ers burn.
Burn motherf***ers, burn.
I believe they will attempt the world record for the largest, willing, Distributed Denial of Service Attack.
:)
Well, what the hell, lets help bury their servers
The one time I try to RTFA, the one time....
The idea of having the largest one day download was a Microsoft hoax designed to create a DOS attack on Mozilla.
Gah, conflicting anecdotal evidence! Now how can I decide if FF3 crashes alot or not?
Keep hitting that "refresh" button to try and get to the Download site. I'm pretty sure that will help out the slashdot effect!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
and if you, for example, want to download firefox 4.0, you should change the link like so: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0&os=win&lang=en-US in this manner you can avoid the rush of people downloading 3.0 and the rush that will surely come with 4.0 as well.
In fact, the organisers are probably relying on the fact that we won't. If a record-breaking number of downloads for a 24 hour period occurred all starting within a few minutes of each other, I don't think even mozilla.org's servers would survive for long.
They haven't. mozilla.com is dead as a dodo. Why didn't they host the FF3 downloads on Google's gear? Seems that would be sensible.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Sorry people - I meant to hit DOWNLOAD, but accidentally hit DOS ATTACK.
Boy is my face red.
I'm running Firefox 3.0 now! My god, the net has never looked so beautiful! I think I'm going to cry... *sniff* *sniff*
Wanted: witty unique signature. Must be willing to relocate.
http://media.buzzhumor.com/7/1197615060_1184265009_Megan_Fox_35b99310.jpg
Sites been down for awhile. Maybe the Mozilla team can get the Guinness Book of World Record's "Most effective self inflicted denial of service attack."
Respect the Constitution
I downloaded it too.
Let's see if slashdot can handle the load of everybody reporting their successful download of Firefox!
Looks like Microsoft thinks the same thing, as they are abandoning development of IE8 for FF3.
Maybe, but it doesn't help if the "splash" is the sound of FF3 downloads falling in the mud.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I used to screw up your workstation in the middle of the night. Now I maintain servers during the middle of the day and no one notices. ;-D
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0&os=win&lang=en-US 404, they must have all been downloaded -- are there more due in stock?