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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.
Mozilla's FTP is overloaded, but the 3.0 (non-RC) download was available as early as 7am Mountain today. You can hit it from a mirror via: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US (change os=linux or os=osx if required).
There have been instances where I've had only a couple of tabs open and my computer would start chugging. A quick look at the RAM usage had FF3 pegged close to 2GB.
/., some others) so it was quite surprising. The extensions I have loaded are adblock and noscript. Oh, also, forecastfox.
I usually only have 3 or 4 tabs open to text sites (fark,
Hope this isn't a permanent thing.
For those who aren't fans of the Awful Bar, there is an add-on to bring back the old bar.
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
1 PM EST time means 17:00 GMT.
Come on, Slashdot, this is supposed to be an international event ! The biggest slashdoting ever, you could try harder to synchronize !
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ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/
For Great Justice.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US
Julie Moult is an idiot.
I've been a regular opera user since 2003 and it's my perferred browser (unless a particular site hates Opera [looking at you microsoft...]). However, Opera 9.5 has been mixed for me so far. It's much faster in regards to page load compared to the prior version, but it has some annoying bugs that need fixed. Perhaps it's from not having the open source testing base that firefox does or perhaps it was just a rush job to get it out before Firefox3.
For one, my tabs decide they don't want to highlight at times on hover. On top of that, they might decide to take on the name of another tab already opened and closing the tab doesnt have the expected result (it decides to close some other tab instead). Opera also decided to say "screw you" in terms of custom settings. I had to reset shortcuts like the links download (ctrl+shift+j) because they made it +l now. There's quite a few other things they override for your settings as well I won't get into.
I've also had problems with flash movies not working properly at times on youtube, but not very often.
To me, it seems like Opera released 9.5 a bit early and it's really a beta3 version, not the final. I assume it was to jump ahead of firefox, but not totally sure. At least Opera finally has some decent web developer tools. That was something I had to always rely on firefox for.
I dunno ... my 800 Mhz. living room PC downloaded it at 500 kbytes/sec.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.