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Help Firefox 3.0 set a World Record

  • 5th Jun, 2008 at 4:53 PM
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http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Basically, Firefox 3.0 is coming out. I've been using the beta for a few months now and it's much improved over the 2.x releases.
It's faster and more lightweight. It's tailored to be faster with many Big sites.
Gmail positively flies along with it.
There are a few issues with many addons not working for it yet, but that should be sorted by release or soon after, i think.

If you follow the above link and pledge (giving your email addres) and they'll email you on the day Firefox is released (this month) with download links for it. The idea being that as many people as possible download it on release day to set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

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[info]lacyintx wrote:
5th Jun, 2008 16:15 (UTC)
Thanks! I heart Firefox!
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[info]rockstarwookie wrote:
6th Jun, 2008 13:31 (UTC)
No problem :)
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[info]isis_newton wrote:
5th Jun, 2008 16:25 (UTC)
i'll buy that for a dollar.

having just got back online at home yesterday i'm still in the processs of updating my ancient laptop.
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[info]rockstarwookie wrote:
6th Jun, 2008 13:16 (UTC)
Any time I get a new computer or have to reinstall Windows or anything, the first thing I do is open Internet Explorer, download and install Firefox and never touch IE again :)
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[info]catrionamacnair wrote:
5th Jun, 2008 19:31 (UTC)
Cheers. I like Firefox; I'm in. Thanks for sharing, my keeping up abilities are dreadful.
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[info]rockstarwookie wrote:
6th Jun, 2008 13:31 (UTC)
hehe, no problem.
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[info]peadarog wrote:
5th Jun, 2008 19:50 (UTC)
I'm in too! I've been a user since 0.7...
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[info]rockstarwookie wrote:
6th Jun, 2008 13:22 (UTC)
I can't remember which version I first used. It was still called Phoenix back then (and then a brief foray into "Firebird"), but I don't think it'll ever be as blazingly fast as it was then, because of how light-weight it was.
It took just milliseconds to load.
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[info]misunderstruck wrote:
5th Jun, 2008 19:52 (UTC)
Cool.

I'm actually using Firefox 3 already as well -- it was included in the Ubuntu system upgrade to 8.04.

Good stuff!
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[info]rockstarwookie wrote:
6th Jun, 2008 13:25 (UTC)
Same here.
I'm having some issues with it (Ubuntu) though. Firefox takes over the sound from all other apps (i think this is to do with Flash) and it freezes up -requiring a CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE- and even crashes a lot.

I remembered having similar issues after upgrading to gutsy when a friend said that he always reinstalls rather than upgrades, so that's my plan for today.
I'm pretty hopeful it'll work, but it's a pity about the upgrade program if it's so.
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[info]misunderstruck wrote:
6th Jun, 2008 14:44 (UTC)
I have had the same problem with Firefox and sound, although I've never needed to restart X as a result. Usually just killing Firefox (either by closing the window or using killall -9 firefox-bin in the terminal) takes care of things.

The automatic upgrade tool does leave a bit to be desired. It completely killed my Ubuntu install on my old laptop when going from Feisty to Gutsy, and it led to an hour or so of tweaking the Grub menu to get our desktop to boot properly after upgrading to Hardy (though the latter was probably my fault for (1) not paying attention to what I was clicking during the upgrade and (2) having a weird custom setup for Grub since I've had up to 4 Linux installs plus Windows on the computer at the same time -- It's true, I do like to make my life difficult sometimes). However, my laptop upgrade was mostly flawless.
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[info]kikoma wrote:
5th Jun, 2008 20:15 (UTC)
I'm still surprised that they try to do it. The poor servers...

Btw: worl record my arse. The current world record is apparently zero ;)
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[info]rockstarwookie wrote:
6th Jun, 2008 13:30 (UTC)
heh, I'm not too surprised. I was wondering why they kept saying "set" rather than "break" the record. :)

Anything that helps raise awareness of Firefox and more importantly lessen the use and dominance of IE is good in my book (unless, of course, MS actually make IE good. Which I don't see happening).
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[info]zollo_the_fat wrote:
7th Jun, 2008 09:42 (UTC)
Pledged.
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