Join The Firefox 3 Download Record Attempt To Get Into Guiness Book

Published on June 15th, 2008

Posted by Uncle Dave in General, Recipe Nook, Technology

With all those Firefox bits shooting around the Interwebitubes on Tuesday, sounds like I should do something else then. After downloading the new version, of course.

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.

Thanks to Gary, the dangerous infidel

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# 1 Mark Derail said, on June 15th, 2008 at 7:44 am

Just installed F3RC3, and it is faster loading a site such as this blog.

They improved the bookmarking tool, that’s nice.

# 2 Bob West said, on June 15th, 2008 at 8:00 am

I have it as well as IE7 and Opera. I like them all for different reasons.

# 3 Gary, the dangerous infidel said, on June 15th, 2008 at 8:13 am

I may not be able to help bring Osama bin Laden to justice, but if I can help Firefox be recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records, then I will not have lived in vain.

I will do it for the children.

# 4 pedro said, on June 15th, 2008 at 8:32 am

Bah! Firefox sux. Opera rulez! 9.5 is out already

# 5 h3rald said, on June 15th, 2008 at 8:52 am

Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 are both very good browsers and better than their predecessors, as I recently outlined on my blog.

# 6 James Hill said, on June 15th, 2008 at 9:23 am

Can any Mac users let us know if Firefox is better than Safari and Camino yet?

# 7 QB said, on June 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am

Firefox 3 on the Mac is pretty nice. I use FF 3 on both Windows and Mac daily and in the past the Mac version was nowhere near as nice. Now FF feels like a Mac application (appearance, dialogs, etc) and runs as quickly as the Windows version (page loads, startup, etc).

It has more features than Safari and renders at about the same speed. Haven’t used Opera in a long time since it’s been so long between upgrades but I may try it again with 9.5 release.

I never use IE since I find the whole interface kind of kludgy and the security settings confusing.

# 8 Mister Mustard said, on June 15th, 2008 at 9:54 am

#2 Mr. West

>>I have it as well as IE7 and Opera. I like
>>them all for different reasons.

What might be your reason for liking IE7?

# 9 Jess Hurchist said, on June 15th, 2008 at 10:50 am

I don’t like IE7enough to use it in preference to Firefox but at work it does ‘feel’ good. Response feels engineered not put together. I only wish all MS products felt as good.
I have found that my work native SAP user interface which works with IE6 doesn’t work with IE7 but whether it’s work or IE I wouldn’t like to say. The SAP web interface works with IE6 & 7 and Firefox

# 10 hhopper said, on June 15th, 2008 at 10:51 am

My big question about FF3 is will the add-ons work with it? I seriously rely on various add-ons.

Opera is, without a doubt, the fastest browser. The problem is, it doesn’t have all the cool bells and whistles that FF has.

# 11 Bob West said, on June 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am

Among my likes of IE7, are favorites management, quick tabs, Hide the standard menu with the Alt key.

# 12 Mister Mustard said, on June 15th, 2008 at 11:55 am

>>My big question about FF3 is will the
>>add-ons work with it?

Some do, some don’t. A tragedy for me is that the “Countdown Until Dumbya’s Gone” counter that gives the number of days until he’s outta there, does NOT work.

# 13 Floyd said, on June 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am

I plan to wait on my FF3 download until after the release date. Why conflict with millions of downloads?

# 14 green said, on June 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am

The web told me to so I guess I have to partake….

# 15 IanInTheTubes said, on June 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

If they list us all out in the Christmas edition of the Guinness Book of Records then count me in… if not, nah.

That said, it would just encourage mother-dearest to purchase *another* copy. Perhaps I will wait until the day after too.

Ian.

# 16 pedro said, on June 15th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

#9 safari a good browser? are you insane??…my bad, I forgot you’re a macfan. Sorry for the redundancy folks.

#10 that’s the problem of relying on plug-ins. A new version comes out and the likelyhood that your beloved plug-ins don’t work is quite high.

I do have one complaint about opera 9.5 which is that they decided to change the paste & go shortcut from crtl+b to ctrl+shift+v. Very annoying and counterproductive

#11 IE 7 quick tabs? you obviously haven’t used opera.

# 17 pedro said, on June 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

I take that back. I just edited the default shortcus on Opera 9.5 and I can paste & go again with ctrl+b

# 18 Shane said, on June 15th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

lol. I will be camping in the woods on tuesday.. camping ftw.

# 19 exhook said, on June 15th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Too bad Google Firefox Sync is not available for FF3. No upgrade here!

# 20 Mr. Fusion said, on June 16th, 2008 at 5:35 am

… the “Countdown Until Dumbya’s Gone” counter that gives the number of days until he’s outta there, does NOT work.

That is reason enough to stay with FF 2.0

The one add-on I have come to depend on to the point I couldn’t do without – Accu Weather. Especially with all the violent storms and tornadoes in the recent couple of weeks.

# 21 Gary, the dangerous infidel said, on June 17th, 2008 at 10:46 am

The site has finally gone live with the final release, in the U.S. anyway…

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Help set a world record, and then congratulate yourself with a pint of Guinness

# 22 K B said, on June 17th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

Don’t forget to print your certificate, Gary TDI:

http://tinyurl.com/64q5gj

(It’s the little touches that keep the campaign as weird as possible.)

# 23 Gary, the dangerous infidel said, on June 17th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

Thanks, K B. I’ll have to frame it and show it off at next month’s meeting of the Society of Infidels.

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