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A Few Firefox 3 Followups
An anonymous reader writes "Using data generated by the Mozilla Firefox download pledge page, the map on this blog post ranks countries, not by absolute number of pledges made, but rather on a per capita basis. This analysis yields some interesting conclusions about where open source is strongest and weakest."
Anonymous Warthog writes "That didn't take long. In a blog posting from the TippingPoint DVLabs security team (of Kraken and CanSecWest hacking contest fame), they confirmed that they reported a vulnerability in Firefox 3.0 to Mozilla a mere five hours after it was released. Additionally, there was a posting on the Full Disclosure security mailing list from someone that purports to have another vulnerability in the works as well. In the grand scheme of things, this probably means nothing to the general security of Firefox, but you can be sure the browser zealots on all sides will be watching carefully."
Finally, from reader Toreo asesino: "Microsoft have congratulated the Mozilla team by sending them their second cake (minus recipe) to Mozilla's Mountain View headquarters to congratulate them on shipping FireFox 3, which went live right on time last night." Congratulations are indeed due on both the browser and the release process — looks like the Firefox fever (despite some seriously taxed servers) resulted in more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
Hey! Guess what, Einstein! It's FREE! So if you've tried Open Source and don't like it, then it's really no great loss to you, is it?
I mean you show up at their website when all kinds of news outlets are running stories about firefox download day and the website doesn't even say that download day starts at 1 EST. What kind of amature shit is that?
Yes, they underestimated demand and probably have a little egg on their faces. But Firefox WORKS! And it's FREE! So what's your problem?
Oh, and it's spelt "amateur".
Then you finally download it and it's full of security holes. What the fuck?
No, it has A security hole. It will be fixed. Someone will find more holes. They will be fixed. So don't use it. Whatever the hell works for you.
I put more effort in to jacking off than these clowns put in to their "Record Download Day". What an embarassment.
Perhaps this explains your short-sightedness and/or blinkered vision. And your obvious frustration. Maybe keep it in your trousers for one day, see if you feel better then, eh?
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's both directly and indirectly fueled by the far superior native language support included in Moz.
Way back when Mozilla was still early milestones, I directed a Russia exchange student to try it, when IE wouldn't allow the proper entry of Russian characters for a URL.
No doubt he went back home, spread the word about Mozilla, and is single-handedly responsible for the popularity of Firefox across Eastern Europe... *cough*
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
I managed to get connected; but the map is kinda boring; just black on white.
Strangely, it also looks exactly like the letters "Error establishing a database connection".
Well of course there was no recipe-- that cake was a proprietary, closed-source dessert.
Height: 38U, Weight: 0 Newtons, Eyes: #0000FF, OS: Gray Matter 1.0 (Alpha)
Nah. Classic Microsoft.
They set DefaultLogo OnCake to "Blue-E".
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
They did. That is the cake the IE team received when they shipped IE 7. They just 're-gifted' the cake.
And, since then, Safari for Windows came out.
Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.
"June 17, 2028. Firefox 2.9.948 released. Soon we'll go to 3.0 RC1!"
And why am I suddenly reminded of WINE?
Maybe they want to try to beat the download record again, when all those people come looking for the patches.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then they send you a cake.
Then you pay your ISP for 8 million downloads.
Then you profit???
What are we doing again?
Its MS cake, so after you consume it, 2 ports will open and you will be ejecting data for days.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Why didn't you put a Firefox logo on the cake? That's the object of the celebration.
Somebody's even more humorless than Microsoft...
Is this the time to mention that the cake was a lie?
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I believe they were trying to imply:
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Hence the IE logo. Its IE's cake but Mozilla is surely eating it.
If it doesn't return, can we taser the people who put idle on the front page? Or at least block it?
What?
That's weird, I downloaded it 7.5 million times with no problems at all ;)
Great example of crud re-use.
PS If the IE cake gives the Moz team indigestion, is that down to ACID compliance?