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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. Submission ignored, download 3.0 now by Abattoir · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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).

  2. Re:My findings... by jasonmicron · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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.

    I usually only have 3 or 4 tabs open to text sites (fark, /., some others) so it was quite surprising. The extensions I have loaded are adblock and noscript. Oh, also, forecastfox.

    Hope this isn't a permanent thing.