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Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST

Posted by timothy on from the there's-no-pleasing-some-people dept.

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.

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  1. I will not.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    be downloading FF!

    IE 5 is good enough for me!

    1. Re:I will not.... by kvezach · · Score: 5, Funny

      IE 5 is good enough for me!

      I know, but did you have to advertise it? I had just finished owning your computer; now all the other slashdotters will get on and kick me off with their own kits!

    2. Re:I will not.... by brunascle · · Score: 5, Funny

      you didnt know? Opera is adware. fortunately, we have IE 5.0 and Netscape Navigator as alternatives.

      wtf is Firefox?

  2. Re:My findings... by ndansmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been using the RC releases, and while I do like the new browser, the memory footprint is still a monster. Currently, it's using over 175MB of ram for the windows I have open (21 different pages) - and that seems excessive to me. You're right, 21 pages seems excessive to me as well.
  3. Re:What is this in Euros? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, at the current exchange rate 0 Euros is a few bucks or so.

  4. Re:Time Zones by sm62704 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:My findings... by FauxPasIII · · Score: 5, Funny

    > It literally POPS off the screen to say "Hello, please click me!".

    Where the hell did you buy that monitor?

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  6. Re:Download DAY, Justin by Sabz5150 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why's he moaning about what time it starts at when people have a whole twenty-four hours to find a suitable time to download the thing? It's not like we all have to sprint to our computers and start it on the minute. We are Slashdot! Turning servers into slag is what we do best!
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  7. Hmmm by bluie- · · Score: 5, Funny

    The site seems to be bogged down for some reason...

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  8. 1:04pm by mattwarden · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. DDOS world record by renrutal · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :)

  10. Hoax! by birdguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The idea of having the largest one day download was a Microsoft hoax designed to create a DOS attack on Mozilla.

  11. Re:Download by Pollardito · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  12. My bad - by BucketOfLard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry people - I meant to hit DOWNLOAD, but accidentally hit DOS ATTACK.
    Boy is my face red.

  13. FireFox successfully D.O.S. attacked themselves by jackspenn · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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