Help Mozilla Set a Firefox 3 Download Record!

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/05/28/set-a-firefox-world-record/

Firefox 3's creators are looking to set a Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours, and have set up a "Download Day 2008" page to organize the effort. The download date for the browser is still "some time in June," but you can watch that page for updates.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

http://www.opera.com/ 


Wonder if it's gonna be less bloated...

IE7 FTW

Firefox is for nerds

I can't deal with any browser that doesn't support colour profiles in images. Safari's the only one that does as far as I know so it's the only one I use...

Safari is the shizzle.

Safari was fucking whack if you ask me.

Moved to Opera and not looking back, it's awesome!!

Opera >>>>>>> Firefox IMO

u guys are arguing about web browsers hey. Web Browsers.......










(firefox ftw btw)

no shit. it's just that i have had troubles recently and they have all pissed me off, otherwise i doubt i would really care

safari all the way, firefox sucks big hairy balls

It sucks less balls than Internet Explorer though you gotta admit...IE is fucking appalling...SO SLOW

I definitely agree so far. Have only recently made the switch from Firefox, but Opera looks to be the fucking daddy.

Opera had a good first impression with me, but apart from the speed dial thing, there wasnt much to keep me using it.

I've been using Firefox 3 Beta and RC1 and they are definitely an improvement over FF2.

Something happened to Firefox last night and I lost all of my settings and bookmarks.

CRIES!!

happened to me once before and it was just a profile thing. do a quick google search, you should be able to get everything back.

Been three days now, goodbye settings.

Are you sure? Did you do this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks#Restoring_bookmarks_from_backup ?

get a mac and use safari 

oh yeah definitely. that is the cheapest, easiest and quickest way to resolve the issue.

So-im-told new firefox logo

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Pedofox IMO.

By the power vested in me by tabloid reading imbeciles, I pronounce you guilty of being a paedofox.

 

http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/

here is a run down on some of the improvements in ff3

tomorrow is the day for the world record attempt

When is it released?

Um, tomorrow.

i will be grabbing it, gaf about the record though just hook me up with a better browser!

Sorry I don't know fucking everything.

it was mentioned twice in the three posts before your question

I am dumb, is that enough for you Khem.

 

*cough* Opera *cough*

Fucking Oath. The computer I'm on now has a FF v1. Will def. be upgrading to Opera today.
I may grab a copy of FF v3 just out of spite for Microsoft though.

Bah, all browsers suck.

I'm so hardcore I use a DOS telnet window!

FTW! Pwnd! QQ More.



...

fucking geeks arguing about which browser is the best... 

Screw that I browse the net using my CMOS capacitator chip.... oh wait....

 SO when is this?

 

















 

I still telnet ;_;

Also, anyone using FFRC3 ..

about:robots in the addresss bar.

As far as I can tell you can't actually download it yet. Probably on yank time.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

I should point out this is basically the public beta, not the final release.

 

Nice.


Release time is 10:00am San Fran time = 2am tomorrow our time. 

Trying the beta version now, interesting.

GOGOGO!!11111111

http://getfirefox.com/

servers are getting hammered so keep trying

try: http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html

top ten features of FF3: http://lifehacker.com/392160/top-10-firefox-3-features

power user guide for FF3: http://lifehacker.com/396312/power-users-guide-to-firefox-3

Some of those top 10 features sound bloody good I must say! I might get onto it to have a squizz and set it up as my secondary browser. BTW I was never arguing about browsers, FJ, just having a laugh. I found it interesting timing indeed that Opera released their new improved 9.5, their first major overhaul in a few upgrades, yesterday. Coincidence?

I'm actually looking forward to getting home and downloading this



time to take a good hard look at where I'm at

I just installed Firefox 3 and I lost all my add-ons because none of them are compatible with this version!

 

Should be updates coming out for them soon though, if not already.

fucken cant even get on to the site must be breaking the record haha

I'm into photography and one thing that bugs me about every browser aside from Safari is that they ignore colour profiles embedded in images. That means that if you really care about how photos look online, and are using a calibrated screen, Safari is really the only option.

I know most people won't care about that but it's the reason why I will be sticking with Safari for now.

I care but just can't fucking stand Safari as a browser. I haven't checked out the latest Opera version, but to me FF and Opera are as good as each other, except for the fact that opera has the speed dial, which wins it for me.

Does opera have add-ons?

I neeeed my ad-blocker, download accelerator, etc etc.

Yep Opera has heaps of add-ons. You go to the Opera community or something and choose from heaps of them. Lot's of really handy ones there.

Is that still limited to 9 "numbers" (sites)?

It was in the version I had, but it has since been updated so it would be worth checking. I'm pretty sure I found an add-on so you could have more than 9 as well.

all my add ons work in FF including my speed dial which lets you have as many boxes as you want

excuse my ignorance but what is this Speed Dial u all speak of


( no doubt this'll be answered with a link)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810

 

I googled, I still don't know what it actually does though...

its like a start up page with a bunch of small boxes, each of which displays a pic of the page it links to, and when you press it, it jumps to the site. i keep my most visited sites in there, still not 100% sold on it, handy but gimmicky...

it's good for keyboardless navigating.

any different than tabs really?

tabs are full pages. speed dial is like speed dial on a phone. you press a button and the page loads. more like a bunch of your shortcuts/bookmarks all laid out on a page with screen shots of the webpage.

are the screen shots live?

guessing they cant be?(no idea)

you can set the refresh time

ah ok cool. Might give it a whirl

so, did anyone grab the "I downloaded firefox 3" certificate?

lol

Do you really think anyone here is that nerdy?



Oh wait... *looks at thread*

It has widgets.

The thing that shits me slightly is that unlike Firefox ones which integrate into your browser and thus become very handy (such as Adblocker, Video Downloader, Download Statusbar etc.) Opera widgets are still kind of just pop-up windows that will use some kind of internet functionality, they don't integrate and radically change the way the browser operates.

So, unless it changes to FF's way, you can't get things like Adblocker etc. on Opera.

It's my one great disappointment of Opera versus FF, the blazing page loading and general speediness of Opera makes up for it a great deal though, IMO.

all ready got it printed and framed don't ya?

so first impressions?

havent really used it much, but it seems to load pages bloody quick. I never had any problems with old firefox and am yet to have any with the new one. FF is currently using 102,268 K memory 

IMO anyone who can't get FF functioning correctly is shit at internets  *looks at roost*

well ie takes the cake, but ive had issues with FF in the past.  What do you want me to do, start reviewing code or something? 

anyone got any hints, tips, add ons for it?

Q - try these links

top ten features of FF3: http://lifehacker.com/392160/top-10-firefox-3-features

power user guide for FF3: http://lifehacker.com/396312/power-users-guide-to-firefox-3


will let you know which add ons i run at home after work. i try not to have too many, just keep a few essentials runnin...

cheers mate

FIREFOX fans claim to have set a world record after the latest version of the web browser was downloaded more than 8 million times in 24 hours.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23888572-5014111,00.html

http://lifehacker.com/tag/firefox-tip/

http://lifehacker.com/tag/firefox/

here are my essential ones...

adblock plus + filterset
fire ftp
fox clocks
stumbleupon
download status bar
bbcode or bbcode extra - recommended for anyone who posts on forums
english australian dictionary

I also recommend IE tab and DownThemAll!

cheers for those Khem, grabbed most of em

big fan

another one a few of you might find handy...

http://www.techleader.co.za/henkkleynhans/2008/06/18/how-to-surf-porn-secretly-in-firefox-3/

 Can anyone recommend some decent themes?

 The one I used before isn't out for FF3 yet

There can be only one.

http://www.pimpzilla.nl/

 

 

 That would actually annoy me I reckon. I like a nice looking, minimal theme.

 I liked Noia, I just installed Abstract Classic, its not too bad.

did break design that?

The Aero Fox theme is pretty sweet if you like a dark theme or you're running Vista. I run the Zune desktop theme on XP so I find dark themes are best for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6070

Just realised that guy does the Abstract one you were talking about as well Stryke.

anyone used PicLens on FF yet? A bit useless but it makes google image search a bit more interesting

 Ever since moving to Firefox 3 it never closes properly.

 I have to go into task manager and close it.

 Anyone else get this? Very annoying

Opera has been fucking up on me ever since it was updated.   

havent had any problems with it at all...

My Opera files got infected with a trojan today. Mcaffe couldn't do shit, so I just deleted it all. Appears to be gone now. Back to using FF though, which seems to be fucking up with 4chan now as well. No way I'm going back to IE though.

anyone know if there's a way of "fattening" up the font? Don't want to make it bigger(have played round with font size) just more solid

9.5+ going strong here mate. Try hitting Tools, Delete Private Data to delete all your Opera cache (make sure you back up and passwords first though.) Failing that clean out with CCleaner. If all else fails, uninstall and reinstall.

tools>options>content>fontsandcolours

Then just pick one.


Click advanced if you want your preference to override the page preferences.



Absolutely no probs here man, but I feel your pain - the only thing that fixed my last problem was changing computers completely.

ok cheers. Over riding page preference could be handy

ok now that I've totally fucked this up, can someone tell me what the default font is:)

Probably Arial I'd say.

Edit: Nope it's Times New Roman actually.

cheers

3.0.1 is out, may help with a few issues a couple of you have been having...

Link??

http://getfirefox.com/

or go to help > check for updates