Firefox 3 World Record Day: June 17

[DarkTrojan]

Help Mozilla set a record for the most downloads in 24 hours by downloading Firefox 3 on release day. You really should, it's the tits.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord

Go there, you schmucks.

[edit]

I suppose I could also say that Opera 9.5 has just been released, but who cares?


/me ducks

[White Tiger]

Yey!!!!

[piemastermike]

doin that

[Paradigm^]

I suppose I could also say that Opera 9.5 has just been released, but who cares?The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/12/opera_95_release_preview/), apparently.

I'm tempted to switch, or at least give Opera a try. From what I've heard, it's lighter and more stable than FF, and has most (if not all) of the features without the clumsy add-ons. So yeah, I'm curious to see what it's like on the other side.

[DarkTrojan]

It still has a near-white scrollbar.

[basstard]

I'm in for FF3.

Especially since it's promising to have stopped the memory leaks.

[Ozzylator]

Ooooh, new version of Opera. Snap that shit up.

[Nuclear Spoon]

I'm in for FF3.

Especially since it's promising to have stopped the memory leaks.

This, and I'm using RC3 now and it does seem a little faster.
However, a lot of the extensions don't work...

[Erskien_Parkour]

The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/12/opera_95_release_preview/), apparently.

I'm tempted to switch, or at least give Opera a try. From what I've heard, it's lighter and more stable than FF, and has most (if not all) of the features without the clumsy add-ons. So yeah, I'm curious to see what it's like on the other side.

Opera is brilliant. I've been using it for a while and I even got my computer illiterate sister to use it.

[BigShimmeryWall]

The new Opera's cracking. It's wonderfully fast, looks nice and just works, without needing to get a load of addons.

I :love: my Opera, I do.

[Ozzylator]

I love it! It's so shiny and mwah.

[Lewiji]

This, and I'm using RC3 now and it does seem a little faster.
However, a lot of the extensions don't work...
A little faster? It's nearing light-speed man. Awesome.
Most useful extensions have been updated, just not on the mozilla site: do a google and find the official site/sourceforge repo and there'll usually be a v3 version.

Also, tagged bookmarks + history search from the address bar = leet. If they integrate tagged bookmarks with spotlight in Mac OS X, that'd be epic.

[Angus Mcsucksuck]

New opera is crazy good :)

[Midget]

trying out the new opera now

i hate how i can't ctrl+click the home button to open a new google tab

also, will download ff3 on release day

edit: ah, it's shift+click

and like dt said, the near-white scrollbar is really annoying

edit2: and it's adblocker is crap

[Paradigm^]

I'm quite tempted to do a FF3 / Opera head-to-head when FF3 comes out. I'm a FF user, but I could see myself switching if Opera did everything I wanted it to do (but faster).

[Darkscull]

I don't know why opera users always put "it already has everything you get in firefox extensions built in" as a pro.

it doesn't have all the sorts of innovative things that you can find as firefox extensions, because it would get stupidly cluttered and slow, plus half of them fulfill not very commonly needed roles that a browser would be stupid to have built in.

also, some of the things that it does have built in that you'd have to add on to firefox, I don't want. yet I don't have the choice to kick them out to save memory and be efficient, with firefox I just get the things that I want.

I'm not a fanboi, and I will try the new opera, just like I tried the last one (which was stupidly slow on my PC, dunno what the guy at the register is talking about "not that opera is ever slow"), just that argument really annoys me.

edit: oh, and I will be downloading on the day.

everyone should, because even if you hate firefox and use opera or something else, it's better than IE, and this will be good publicity to get people to switch from IE.
once they're on firefox, you can try and tempt them away.

[Nuclear Spoon]

Also, for those that want to get their old extensions working,

Enter "about:config" in your address bar.
Right-click > New > Boolean
Call this "extensions.checkCompatibility"
Make it "false".

Restart Firefox and it should work.

[Erskien_Parkour]

Opera 9.5 is lovely.

I'm gonna download Fire Fox 3 as well on the date.

Hooray, I pledged.

[Cyanide_]

I have pledged, I <3 Firefox.

Have to say the new Opera is very good too.

[Timmeh]

I don't care about how many people download it on x day, I just care about whether they've fixed it's absolutely chronic memory management, love of memory leaking and the way it munches on your CPU like a fat kid with cake.

[captain canuck]

it's the tits. Garuanteed to get my hopes up way too high.

Will do, though. I have just discovered need for Firefox or Opera on my laptop since the features on a few websites I need to access don't work well with IE. So I'll probably get both :p

[Paradigm^]

I don't know why opera users always put "it already has everything you get in firefox extensions built in" as a pro.

it doesn't have all the sorts of innovative things that you can find as firefox extensions, because it would get stupidly cluttered and slow, plus half of them fulfill not very commonly needed roles that a browser would be stupid to have built in.In theory, you're correct: Firefox's principle was always to write a lightweight, basic browser and let users fill in the gaps with extensions. In practice, a clean install of Firefox (sans extensions) is still much slower than a clean install of Opera, which comes with a lot of the functionality you'd have to get from extensions in FF.

Apparently this is something they've fixed in FF3, both in terms of fixing speed and adding more things I didn't want to the base install. We shall see.

[ynnekkenny]

loving the way this zhas been hijacked into an opera thread!
not a fan of opera used it for a while but will be downloading ff3 tomorrow

[Scribbly]

Opera is a neat browser. I prefer Firefox though :)

I Heart the extensions

[Lewiji]

I've been using Firefox 3 since the beta first arrived, and it is really fast; Not so sure about memory, but I have 4gb so I don't really care :p

There is one thing that I hope will be fixed soon though, it seems to hang and freeze if you have multiple facebook tabs open; I'm assuming it's actually Facebook's fault, probably something to do with their terrible web IM thing. Could be because I'm using Firebug too.

[Midget]

i've always had trouble with firefox and facebook

it freezes every time i try to upload pictures

[Nuclear Spoon]

Also, it doesn't truncate alt-text any more \o/

This makes xkcd a slightly more enjoyable experience.

[tom93]

there's always been an add-on to stop the alt-text truncating.
i added it way back when for qwantz.

[hynzytheweirdo]

I shan't be getting the new Opera, because I don't need it. I just use Firefox. It does the job for me, which is browsing the internets. I don't use IE because that doesn't browse the internets, it just creates false illusions in your mind whilst installing all the crap toolbars it can from all the websites you visit.

[the last sheika]

I use Opera. I like Firefox, but Opera just seems to do everything seamlessly.

Plus I hate the people who say things like "Opera's crap because Firefox has these things called tabs which no other web browser has", or "Firefox is the best because it's free" or even "Opera's funny 'cos it uses so many rams and goes slow"

I may as well try out Firefox 3 on the day. I don't expect it to do anything for me, but I like the download attempt thingy.

[MONKEY050]

I'm a bit confused by all these praises for Opera all of a sudden. Or I never noticed it before.. but, I thought there was a big issue with Opera not rendering sites right. Could someone offer an insight on that? From experience, I don't think highly of Opera's rendering.

I'm gonna upgrade to FF3 but I don't think I want to get Opera as a fourth browser. I have FF, Safari, and IE already. Plus I rarely touch the other three - just to check how they display sites or to see if embedded stuff is working right in web pages.

[Youlikeyams?]

7 HOURS MAN
7 hours :(

[the last sheika]

I'm a bit confused by all these praises for Opera all of a sudden. Or I never noticed it before.. but, I thought there was a big issue with Opera not rendering sites right. Could someone offer an insight on that? From experience, I don't think highly of Opera's rendering.

Weebls-Stuff has an unusually high proportion of Opera users. Most forums have the vast majority using Firefox or Internet Explorer.
I'm no techy, but I'm pretty sure it does display things how it should, it's just that every web browser works differently, so many website designers just get lazy and only get it to follow the individual standards of one or two browsers.

[Paradigm^]

I'm a bit confused by all these praises for Opera all of a sudden. Or I never noticed it before.. but, I thought there was a big issue with Opera not rendering sites right. Could someone offer an insight on that? From experience, I don't think highly of Opera's rendering.The head of Opera also sits on the board of the international Web standards committee, so he's very, very keen on making Opera conform exactly to Web standards. The trouble is, most of the Internet doesn't - mainly because IE has such a large market share and web devs have to put nasty hacks into their websites to get around IE's dodgy rendering engine.

While Firefox goes "hang on, that's not right" and tries to infer what you really mean, Opera goes "that's not right, go away", preferring to put the onus on the web developers to stick two fingers up at IE and code their sites according to standards.

From what I've heard, Opera's rendering engine doesn't make quite such a hash of poorly designed websites these days, although it's still not perfect.

[Scribbly]

Err isn't it the 17th of june today? And 15.10pm already? Where be teh Firefox 3

my bad, didn't see the post above

[Cyanide_]

Available to download at 18:00 GMT apparently.

.

[Garry3]

It's kind of worrying that they seem to need the extra 18 hours

[Rabengakev]

hay guys, where's teh Firefox huh?

[piemastermike]

whez ma damn browzerz

[basstard]

Good grief, children.

As it's one 24 hour period (worldwide) it has to start at midnight in one area, and they've chosen somewhere not-GMT.

So for UKers, it starts at 6pm GMT. Be patient.

Oh, and getting it off a torrent doesn't count towards the total.

[Paradigm^]

Ha ha. The download page is down :p

[Bacon Machine]

Ha ha. The download page is down :p
Obviously didn't expect much traffic when they're trying to break the world record.

Not exactly the brain trust down at mozilla...

[Erskien_Parkour]

Downloading from here http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Mozilla-Firefox-Final-Download-5787.html

Will download from their website later probably just for the world record :D

[Paradigm^]

Obviously didn't expect much traffic when they're trying to break the world record.

Not exactly the brain trust down at mozilla...It would seem not, no. Somewhat ironic, really.

*sets the page to reload every 15 seconds and wanders off giggling*

Oh, I've got the page title now!

[Worblehat]

(I blame them for the wrong link :ninja:)

[Erskien_Parkour]

yay, downloaded at 500kb's


....I'm pretty sure that's not it.

[Swirl]

Page loaded for me, the link to download is http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.14&os=win&lang=en-GB. Downloading at 80bkps :)

Aha, installed :D

I think you mean
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US
? Edit:this is for RC3, sorry guys :(

Your link is for 2.0.0.14.

Pretty fast download... average 80kbps and I would have expected it to be way slower considering the traffic - but maybe they've opened new mirrors or something

[Worblehat]

How odd. That link just downgraded me to 2.0.4, but it was the one on the page. Hmm...
*Removes link anyway*

[Garry3]

hmm, yeah thanks for the downgrade

[piemastermike]

hxxp://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.14&os=win&lang=en-GB

clue is in the URL

[Swirl]

I think you mean
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

.

May or may not be correct, it seems (RC3)
:(

[piemastermike]

yes we all saw thanks very much you didn't need to link it twice. Here have a cookie for being so great. Jeez.

oh, and it installs a release candidate apparently.

[White Tiger]

Well I'm on it now.

Is alright, less cluttered at the top now since like the google toolbar hasn't be updated yet.
I want to get rig of the thing with the microsoft links.

There should be a way.

[Worblehat]

I think you mean
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US
?

Your link is for 2.0.0.14.

Pretty fast download... average 80kbps and I would have expected it to be way slower considering the traffic - but maybe they've opened new mirrors or something

Release Candidate 3. It's a draw with no winners :)

[Swirl]

Ah crap my bad.
Boy is my face red :p

[El Fisho]

Hmmmm I'm not finding this to have solved any of the memory leakage problems. If anything, its slightly slower than 2.

[happy-go-lucky]

So is Swirl's link good or not?

[piemastermike]

So is Swirl's link good or not?

no

[MONKEY050]

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get on there to get it too.
Got the page to load, clicked Download Now, the Mozilla.com download page comes up with a big FIREFOX 2. Imagine the look on my face when I saw that. It was something along the lines of :eek:

[happy-go-lucky]

no

ok, thanks :)

[Worblehat]

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get on there to get it too.
Got the page to load, clicked Download Now, the Mozilla.com download page comes up with a big FIREFOX 2. Imagine the look on my face when I saw that. It was something along the lines of :eek:

That's what happened to me. Only I didn't realise until after I posted the download link onto here.

[Zhyl]

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

[Paradigm^]

I've managed to get to the download page and am downloading at a truly stunning 8k/s. Reminds me of the dial-up days (not that I was ever lucky enough to get that sort of speed!).

[Jay]

Around 50 kb/s here..

[basstard]

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&amp;os=win&amp;lang=en-UK - Windows
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&amp;os=osx&amp;lang=en-UK - Mac
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&amp;os=linux - Geek

I think.

I'm running the Windows one of what I think is FF3 and it is quite great. The 'awesome bar' (the revamped url bar) takes a bit of getting used to but I really like it now.

[Paradigm^]

Replace the en-US with en-GB if you're in the UK.

[happy-go-lucky]

I've finally got it downloading, at 8.5KB/s

Did firefox expect everyone to ignore the record attempt? :D

[piemastermike]

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

lols.

[Erskien_Parkour]

1.1kb/s

yay

[piemastermike]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday

keep clicking and pressing back if it doesn't work first time.

[Jay]

:o It went really fast for me, as I said..I'm reading this page with it now. So it definatly works.

[piemastermike]

took me 10 minutes, and it looks fugly :<

[Nuclear Spoon]

I just downloaded it at a steady 200kb/s :/

took me 10 minutes, and it looks fugly :<

You will very likely be able to find the old skin very soon.

[piemastermike]

I just downloaded it at a steady 200kb/s :/



You will very likely be able to find the old skin very soon.

going to get the firefox 1 skin like I did for 2. God damn it why do they make these things so nasty :<

[happy-go-lucky]

I got it:D

Looks fine to me

[MONKEY050]

Regular site is back and I've got it. Got a max speed of 348KB/s. It's only 7mb. Took about 16 seconds.

Going to install now. brb!


EDIT: DAAANMMMNNN That's fast!!!!
Piccy:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6817/ff3rp6.jpg
It's a little different from the beta screenshots but it's neat. I'll have to dig around to find all the new features. I like that it kept my "advanced controls" toolbar and Facebook toolbar.

EDIT Again: New "Link requests program" dialog. Didn't get a screenshot. Just saw it when opening a Steam link.

[Youlikeyams?]

wharz ma firefox site

D:

[tom93]

is there a way to open what's in the address bar in a tab?
if there isn't, this has severely crippled my surfing funtimes

[Lewiji]

is there a way to open what's in the address bar in a tab?
if there isn't, this has severely crippled my surfing funtimes
Type in shizzle, ctrl+click the "go" button. I'm guessing there's also a keyboard shortcut.

[Kali]

Hmm, quite nice, i like the big green back button
And the fact you can bookmark by clicking the star

[CoX]

I'm really liking this new version, except for the URL bar - can't it just bring up my URL history instead of trying to be fancy?

[Lewiji]

I'm really liking this new version, except for the URL bar - can't it just bring up my URL history instead of trying to be fancy?
Whattt. The URL bar is perfect - no more digging around for bookmarks, I can type a word I remember from a title rather than having to remember the URL, tag searching = awesome

[Paradigm^]

Whattt. The URL bar is perfect - no more digging around for bookmarks, I can type a word I remember from a title rather than having to remember the URL, tag searching = awesomeYes, but it's not for everyone, especially for those who visit a small number of sites regularly and only need to type in web addresses. A simple browsing history will suffice in that case, and anything else actively gets in the way.

[tom93]

no i definitely agree with cox
it's a bit too bulky for me

[basstard]

I'm really liking this new version, except for the URL bar - can't it just bring up my URL history instead of trying to be fancy?

It learns what sites you go to once you access them a couple times.

Example - it originally loaded up a million things when I typed 'fa' for facebook in. Then I clicked 'facebook homepage' in the list and now that appears top.

[piemastermike]

I wish the vista one looked more like the linux version :<

[Mittwoch]

Woah, just realised Opera seems to do a similar thing to what I assume the awesome bar does :/

I am still tempted to try FF3 as Opera 9.5 takes up more memory than the older version and ignores whatever restrictions I put on it...

[Lewiji]

Yes, but it's not for everyone, especially for those who visit a small number of sites regularly and only need to type in web addresses. A simple browsing history will suffice in that case, and anything else actively gets in the way.
Bookmark the pages you want to find first. All you have to do is click the star. They'll come up first in the results.

[Cyanide_]

I love the new firefox, it for me is a big improvement, and it beats Opera because of the add-ons, very happy with it.

But lol at the site not working because of too much traffic, great planning there Mozilla.

[Paradigm^]

Bookmark the pages you want to find first. All you have to do is click the star. They'll come up first in the results.But I don't want to clutter up my bookmarks like that. That's not how I use them.

Everyone uses things differently, and one of the big problems in UI design is catering to everyone - or catering to the broadest possible base of users. I'm not the target userbase - I don't visit a million websites and forget them all, so I don't think that tagging is great. And I despise having a bookmarks folder filled with junk, even if by default they're all shoved in an "unsorted bookmarks" folder.

The easiest thing they could have done for people like me would be to add a checkbox somewhere that gave me the option of reverting to the old style address bar. I'm kind of surprised they haven't.

[Lewiji]

But I don't want to clutter up my bookmarks like that. That's not how I use them.

Everyone uses things differently, and one of the big problems in UI design is catering to everyone - or catering to the broadest possible base of users. I'm not the target userbase - I don't visit a million websites and forget them all, so I don't think that tagging is great. And I despise having a bookmarks folder filled with junk, even if by default they're all shoved in an "unsorted bookmarks" folder.

The easiest thing they could have done for people like me would be to add a checkbox somewhere that gave me the option of reverting to the old style address bar. I'm kind of surprised they haven't.
True, I can understand that. I suppose I like it because I never had the effort to organise my bookmarks, and this system makes it really easy. I've stopped using the bookmarks folder all together now. A tip if you wanna try it out:

If you double click the star, you can add tags. It's just like adding your bookmarks into folders, (and it takes the bookmark out of the unsorted folder) but for example I can tag articles that involve PHP with "web design" and "PHP", and articles that involve javascript with "web design" and "javascript", and search for web design in the URL bar and get both. Whatever, you know how tags work :p

[piemastermike]

paradigm^, seamonkey.

[Macca]

Housekeeping. lol I am so impressed at how fast it was, but I want to give it some time to evaluate how much better it is.

[Timmeh]

Oh look it's still bloaty as fuck

[Troll]

i'm using it right now, it's great however, is anyone else having problems downloading add-ons?

[Kotihyttynen]

I must admit the URL bar is quite bulky and there might be few other issues that bug me a little, but otherwise I'm quite happy with it.

As for the URL bar, I think there might be setting to "normalize" it... not that I'm sure of it though. And as of yet it doesn't bug me enough to give me reason to go lurking around settings to find out.

[Worblehat]

Is anyone else having trouble with cookies and the like in this version? On the three computers I have used FF3 on now, two of them have repeatedly wiped all of my cookies upon starting up firefox and the other one took it upon itself to use outdated username/passwords on all the sites I visited with it.

[Darkscull]

damn it, I missed the record attempt, I was in town or on a train all day.

[Paradigm^]

damn it, I missed the record attempt, I was in town or on a train all day.You've still got until 6pm tonight if you're in the UK.

[Kali]

Nope, 24 hours isnt it, started at 6pm gmt yesterday so you got time darkscull
Beaten by paradigm^

I find the url bar quite useful really, but it is annoying.
Still. i find this version better than the last version of firefox

[piemastermike]

the url bar is probably something they will fix in a patch, given that so many people want the option to turn it off. I really don't want it on my desktop as that is only used for certain sites, but it is really handy on the lappy that I use for browsing.

[Mercury126]

Anyone else get these undeletable icons appearing on their desktop?
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1199/whatop3.png (http://imageshack.us)

[happy-go-lucky]

nope, i just got the normal launching firefox one

[CoX]

Ok so it has made my mouse's middle button stop working. Scrolling works, but clicking to get the quick scroll thing doesn't.

[Nuclear Spoon]

Still works for me.

[Paradigm^]

Anyone else get these undeletable icons appearing on their desktop?
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1199/whatop3.png (http://imageshack.us)Right click on the desktop and hit Refresh - they should go away.

[Revilo]

Oh tits, I forgot to download it.

Oh well.

[Scribbly]

My Smooth skin doesn't work but other than that it's lovely, the new navigation bar is pretty neat

Fast too

[Youlikeyams?]

And we have a record! 8 million downloads!

[luttman23]

I didn't even know about it until yesterday. Got it now, looks ok - no problems thus far. No themes for it either though yet, but it looks ok.

[captain canuck]

One of my favourite random themes doesn't work with it, despite the fact that the download page claims compatibility... or am I missing something vital?

It's nothing as dumb as forgetting that it only shows up after the browser is restarted :p

[Darkscull]

I'm annoyed that my usual theme doesn't work yet, hopefully they'll update it.

I remember getting firefox 2 the theme I had didn't work, and it took a while to find another.

the one i've got now is most unsatisfactory. I can't browse without my lovely steel effect windows!

[Midget]

bit of a bump but yeah, firefox 3 is utter shite

it can't seem to handle me having more than 2 tabs open

sometimes it freezes if i try scrolling before a page has fully loaded

it makes facebook basically not work

when posting on 4chan, 80% of the time it will say connection error and i have to go back and try again, takes me like 4 attempts to post

it's still hogging loads of memory

the new navigation bar just looks rubbish if you ask me

very, very tempted to go back to 2

[ynnekkenny]

i hear ya,

ff3 has crashed on me at least 20 times and stopped working another 20. but it doesnt seem to be on any particular site just randomly. its fucking shite, they better get some fixes out soon or im going back to ff2.

[Nuclear Spoon]

Firefox 3 is still pretty much the same as 2 but looks a bit different.

It isn't terrible though.

[ynnekkenny]

ur lucky it hasn't messed up on you yet, yeah there really doesn't seem to be much noticable difference i just wish it would stop crashing!

[Midget]

yup, i've had more crashes in these past few days than i have with all the older versions put together

gone back to 2 now, pissed me off too much

[mrsnuffles]

i dont think 3 has crashed once for me, and 2 used to crash all the time.

weird.

[hicks]

Neither of them have crashed for me, it might just be one of them things. Also fasterfox best be ported to 3 soon or i'll be :(