Mozilla attempting to set world record for downloads in 24h

[Fox]

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

http://www.getfirefox.com

Mozilla is attemping to set the Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24 hour period with the official Firefox 3.0 point release.

I meant to post this a few days ago and forgot (a cursory search turned up no similar results). The download is meant to begin today at 10:00AM PST, but naturally it's not up even an hour and a half later. The servers are getting hammered to death right now so the main page will barely load at all right now.

Honestly, I saw this coming a mile away. Any big event happenning online where downloads or streaming is involved never goes smoothly lol. There are mirrors floating around, but they don't count toward the record (has to be directly from Mozilla) and I'm leary that they're still just release candidates (RC3) because apparently they're identical.

Anyway, I hear the memory consumption is reduced (when Firefox eats up 553MB of RAM as opposed to the 368MB of a game, something wrong lol) so that's certainly welcome.

Oh, and for those who don't know, if any extensions don't work natively with 3.0 you can force them to work with the Nightly Tester Tools extension.

http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

[NYCe]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Fox]

No problem. :)

It seems the real 3.0 is 7.8MB, whereas RC3 is 7.15MB. The pages loaded a quick second then poof! Screw it, I'll wait until later.

EDIT: Maybe not, I guess they just didn't change the RC3 welcome page to 3.0 final despite the file size of RC3 and 3.0 being exactly the same down to the last byte. Hm, whatever heh.

[Skwisgarr Skwigelf]

Thanks for the info I'm going to go try to get that ASAP

[Skwisgarr Skwigelf]

Its all installed and its pretty awesome I can't wait to find all the changes so far its just the buttons that are different

[NYCe]

This looks weird on my Macbook Pro (the dark grey). It's really fast so I guess that evens things out.

I REALLY love the new history manager. Now you can bulk delete sites from your history, without wiping away all your history. This comes more useful than one knows (snooping mate, nosey co-worker, family member etc).

[hugochavez]

I just downloaded the new Firefox. I guess I'm going to have to get used to the grey. It almost looks like the Safari browser.

What I don't like about it already is that I can't bookmark pages in folders I created. I have to go through the trouble of bookmarking them in the "unorganized folder" and then drag them from the "unorganized folder" to the folder of my choice.

[peggygee]

I'll wait till the downloading frenzy dies down.

Thanks for that Fox, I love Firefox.

8)

[Legend]

Opera 9.5 is out and is freakin sweet.

http://www.opera.com/

[Skwisgarr Skwigelf]

I was thinking of switching to opera what are the features exclusive to opera since i have become accustom to firefox

[Legend]

I was thinking of switching to opera what are the features exclusive to opera since i have become accustom to firefox

1. Duplicate this tab
You visit a page and you want to read it later. For the moment, you want to go back to the previous one. What do you do? Copy the address of the page, create a new tab and paste the URL in the address bar. In Opera you just click Duplicate. The new tab will also duplicate the history.

2. Go to URL
You see a web address in a page, but it's not not hyperlinked. How do you visit the web page? You copy it and paste it in address bar, then press enter. In Opera, select the address, right-click and select "Go to URL".

3. Reload every 30 seconds
You go to a site that shows the live score of a baseball match and it doesn't reload periodically. So you'll have to press F5 every 30 seconds to see the score. In Opera, select "reload every 30 seconds".

4. Fit to window width
Nobody likes the horizontal scrollbar in a page, but some webmasters don't bother to view their sites at different resolutions. In Opera, select "fit to window width" to remove the horizontal scrollbar and shrink the content.

5. Rewind
You search for something at Google, discover a great site, you visit 20 pages from that site and then you want to go back to the search results. You can click Back 20 times or try to locate Google in the list next to the back button. Or you can just hit "Rewind" if you use Opera.

6. Nicknames for collections of sites
How do you visit you favorite sites? You bookmark them and then try to locate the sites in the Bookmars menu. Or you enter the first letters of the URL in the address bar. In Opera you can associate nicknames to sites or collection of sites. Picture this: type "news" and see your favourite news sites opening in their tabs.

7. Tab closing
You visit site A, open a link to site B in a new tab, but the tabs A and B aren't next to each other. If you close tab B, Firefox won't revert to the tab A. You'll see site C in a tab at the left of tab B. Opera shows the previous active tab.

8. Instant back
When you click Back, the browser tries to refetch the page. Opera shows the page from the cache, so the "Back" action happens instantly.

9. Page zoom
Some sites have almost unreadable font sizes, others have huge pictures. Opera zoom feature maintains the site integrity and allows you to view the site without losing the visual presentation.

10. Crash recovery
Your browser crashes and you want to go back to the sites you were visting before the crash. In Firefox, you have to go History and open them one by one. Opera automatically saves last session so you'll see the tabs in the same order when you open the browser.

And that's not all:

11. if you want pages to load faster, you can load only cached images
12. you can control the browser with voice commands
13. use mouse gestures (you can go back this way: hold right button and move mouse left or hold right button and click left button)
14. create beautiful presentations without using Microsoft PowerPoint (even online)
15. change keyboard shortcuts
16.Opera Widgets are handy small programs which you can download free and use on your desktop, mobile phone or TV.http://widgets.opera.com/

[Skwisgarr Skwigelf]

damn I will definitely have to go get that thanks for all the factual information on the operating system (my friend was trying to convince me his logic was "because its fucking awesome")

[NYCe]

Ugh, just downgraded back to 2.0.0.14.

Firefox 3 had too much bloat and unnecessary features.

Maybe next time :(

(That URL search giving Google type results was the final deal breaker)