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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: lekky on June 14, 2008, 09:27:23 PM
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(http://www.spreadfirefox.com/files/images/affiliates_banners/dday_badge_fox.png)
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008. Join our community and this effort by pledging today.
Extra special day, 17 June too :D
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I've been updating the Beta's from Beta 1 and man it's loads better. Full release will make me happy. I'm gonna download it from various places :).
I edited it because of the post below :P.
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erm... re-read my post :P
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I did :). I know what its about.
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cutie :P
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I was just going to post without any smileys :P
So all we have to do is download Firefox 3 tomorrow, right?
Don't know about the others but at least I will :D
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Emailed the link to a couple of people at work today, this is what happened, and bear in mind I work for an IT company.
"did you get my link?"
"yeah, what was it again?"
"Firefox, come on you surely know what it is right?"
"erm.. yeah yeah, its a version of internet explorer isn't it?"
"........."
"no no i mean, its like a different internet explorer right?"
"..................................."
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Hahaahahahahahaha. Download Day 4 me :). Wonder if it actually counts for 2day 4 me or 2day 4 teh Americas and Europe :|.
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Well, here in Spain (GMT +1) it's the download day as well but I still can't download it. I'm waiting forward to download it but I don't feel like waiting about 8 more hours to download it so I'm gonna sleep. :P
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EST +10 here i think. Maybe +11.
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If everything is going as planned, FF3 is supposed to be up in about 1 hour from now.
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3 minutes apparently
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
???
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Heh, maybe they should have setup a few mirrors.
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The FF3 frontpage just went up on getfirefox.com, but the download page is still crapping out. :D
Heh, you'd think they would have prepared better for this.
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Or, they saw the pledges and said "Oh sh--" and crapped their pants. :D
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Rofl, the FF3 download page is up now, but it points to FF2 (for OSX, anyway).
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It points to 2.0.0.14 for all OSs and languages...
... 'cept Slovenian and Sinhala, but they point to 3.0rc3.
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points to 3 now lol
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-GB
ou
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US
The new dl page seems like its hoping a number of new to firefox people will take a look.
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Aaaand service unavailable again. :<
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heh, using mine now :P
The american link works fine for me.
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Downloading. Wonder if they will ever ween me off of Opera.
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w00t got my copy finally....
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Nice - it actually lets you save the tabs when you close it now.
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Heh, now I don't have to worry about updating Beta's and Release Canditates. And why am I downloading it on the 18th? It wasn't there on teh 17th 4 me.
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Well, atleast here in spain it came around 7 pm and I just downloaded it.
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I'm downloading it at 7:10am.
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Is it just me or is Firefox 3 slow? At least for me for example youtube loads slower than before and some pages load slower too. Any ideas how to make it faster?
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Ahem, Firefox 3 is way faster than IE7 and Firefox 2.
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Well for me it loads slower. Might it be because I downloaded many add ons?
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Heh, now I don't have to worry about updating Beta's and Release Canditates. And why am I downloading it on the 18th? It wasn't there on teh 17th 4 me.
It's because you are from the future ;)
Well for me it loads slower. Might it be because I downloaded many add ons?
Loads pretty fast for me
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Firefox 3 passes the Acid2 test for me now, and get 73/100 on Acid3, instead of FF2 getting 52/100 :P
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I did both acid tests (2 and 3). 2 worked properly and 3 gave me 71. It also might be my network, I'll test youtube and others pages tomorrow. I hope it loads faster then.
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Now I got it at the house too!
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Downloaded it's much better than FF2
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Its portable now :)
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable)
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s'always been.
EDIT: Oh, I see. Yeah.
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6.3 million downloads so far.
When I went to bed last night, it was at 1.7
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Nice - it actually lets you save the tabs when you close it now.
Does anyone know if there is an option to enable/disable this? It only works on my guest account.
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There's an addon that lets you save and restore states.
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Total Downloads
8,086,863
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and a little later... 8,458,448
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Slowing down 8,858,718
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Been using FF for a long while, really hoping that they get that guinness records
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there wasn't a previous record, so they got it whatever :P
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I will NEVER go back to IE. That is the only browser that I've had countless issues with while writing websites.
Edit:
Firefox downloads:
579,137,807
O_O I have a feeling that isn't just FF3...
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The current download record holder is the Paris Hilton tape, right?
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But its past download day..... Did they set a record? I'm too lazy to find out.
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I will NEVER go back to IE. That is the only browser that I've had countless issues with while writing websites.
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O_O I have a feeling that isn't just FF3...
People probably set up scripts to download it over and over.
Also, IE7 is insanely unstable, or was when I tried it. It crashed like 3 times in 5 minutes.
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I support IE7 in my environment. For the most part, its very stable.
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But its past download day..... Did they set a record? I'm too lazy to find out.
There was never actually a record to break. They cleverly say "new record", because it is just that.
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There was never actually a record to break. They cleverly say "new record", because it is just that.
Heh.
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Opera has a new version, too, with some pretty drastic interface changes to it. Seems a lot faster as well.
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!kb jitspoe
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Bahahaha!
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Good idea lekky. Run away jitspoe, this is a Firefox thread :).
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I've been using FF3 for a while now. Faster than FF2 for sure, but not in everything. I've noticed FF3 scrolls badly when you use fixed positioning on an element on a page.
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I've been using FF3 for a while now. Faster than FF2 for sure, but not in everything. I've noticed FF3 scrolls badly when you use fixed positioning on an element on a page.
I'm surprised you even notice stuff like that. If you got me to try and notice that you would be wasting your time.
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I've noticed FF3 scrolls badly when you use fixed positioning on an element on a page.
Ok, so that wasn't just me.
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Ok, so that wasn't just me.
Wth, so you people must use it instead of hitting the down button on the keyboard. I find that much easier EXCEPT when I'm specifically trying to get it into the right spot.
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Some of us have scroll wheels.
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I have a scroll wheel, I just choose not 2 use it because most of the time I have a virtual machine of linux running and I use it for most of the things I do, and the scroll wheel doesn't work in there :/.
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I have a scroll wheel, I just choose not 2 use it because most of the time I have a virtual machine of linux running and I use it for most of the things I do, and the scroll wheel doesn't work in there :/.
Why :D
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Well, first of all I screwed my linux installation up by updating it, which screwed my graphics card drivers up. So now its all excrement and when I get around to it i must reinstall it. But yeh, the scroll doesn't work, dunno why and neither does the arrow keys. O and I prefer not to use anything in Windows, eg Firefox because of my brother. I'll leave the machine up and he will use it on all of these random sites. Then I can't get bloody spyware, etc from it. You shoulda seen how slow and excrement the old installation of XP was.
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pr0n :D :D :D
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My friends just looked at that and said "Are you looking at porn?"
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Oh well, at least your friends are clever :)
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Hrm, ctrl+tab should go back to the tab you previously selected, as should closing a tab. I still don't like the way firefox handles that by default.
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Hrm, ctrl+tab should go back to the tab you previously selected, as should closing a tab. I still don't like the way firefox handles that by default.
I prefer it this way, I can't stand operas default. When I open multiple tabs, I don't want to read one then go back to the original page, I want to read them all.
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So if you're reading a forum or something and you open a link in a new tab, you want to end up at some random other tab at the end of the list when you close the link instead of going back to the thread?
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my browsing habits are more focused. The latest page is usually to the right. Once i've finished a page i dont need it anymore so it gets closed... then i want to go to the next page i opened at the same time, eventually i'll get back to my original page and continue browsing.
Like checking the forums.
tab 1 = main firm
2= sub-forum
3= sub-forum
4= thread from 2
5= thread from 2
1= sub-forum
2= thread from old 2
3= thread from old 2
4= thread from old 3
5= thread from old 3
etc
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What if you need to rapidly switch between two tabs? I do that all the time when checking logs, and I'll usually have like 10 other tabs open. I don't want to have to tab through all of them just to go back and forth.
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I tried using operas default behaviour and it just doesn't suit my browsing habits.
Here you go tho https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/112 Seems like it does what you want
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I installed a different one that basically does the same thing. It just seem odd that it has that behavior by default when alt/ctrl-tab in every other program I've used goes back to the last selected item.