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#76 2008-06-18 11:56 pm
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Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
I'd md5 it but, I already deleted RC3
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#77 2008-06-19 2:33 am
Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
I suggest waiting for the final.
The RCs exist because the betas tend to have too few users. The RCs demonstrate a lot of flaws not found in beta.
Now - if filling out bug reports is a way you wish to contribute, then by all means - use the RC - but if you don't want to deal with that aspect, RC is probably not for you, unless you web design and need to test your site against it.
If your site is to the standards however and properly works with FF2 - then FF3 shouldn't be a problem. By to the standards, I mean proper xhtml (or html), css, and javascript that isn't too whacky.
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#78 2008-06-19 3:42 am
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Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
resedit wrote:
I suggest waiting for the final.
It is final, res. Released Tues the 17th.
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#79 2008-06-19 1:29 pm
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Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
resedit wrote:
I suggest waiting for the final.
The RCs exist because the betas tend to have too few users. The RCs demonstrate a lot of flaws not found in beta.
Now - if filling out bug reports is a way you wish to contribute, then by all means - use the RC - but if you don't want to deal with that aspect, RC is probably not for you, unless you web design and need to test your site against it.
If your site is to the standards however and properly works with FF2 - then FF3 shouldn't be a problem. By to the standards, I mean proper xhtml (or html), css, and javascript that isn't too whacky.
I've been using FF3 since RC1 exclusively with little / no bugs. So even if it were not final already, it being RC would not make a big difference. Ubuntu felt it stable enough to include as RC2 with Hardy Heron, IIRC.
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#80 2008-06-19 2:26 pm
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Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
I guess I better edit the thread title again.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion - George Bernard Shaw
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#81 2008-06-19 3:36 pm
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Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
Firefox 3 is still not compatible with a couple of the extensions I use so I'm sticking with FF2 for now. I'll try again in a month or two.
Patience is a virtue of the weak for it makes them stand still long enough for the strong to crush them with ease.
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#82 2008-06-20 12:42 am
Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
Bat wrote:
resedit wrote:
I suggest waiting for the final.
It is final, res. Released Tues the 17th.
Heh.
I know it is suppose to be in RHEL 5.2 when it ships so I didn't bother tracking it. By the time RHEL 5.2 ships, the first of the bugs should be patched - and extensions I use should be fixed.
I think the obvious question everyone has is who takes loaded weapons into a Toys R Us? -- Jim Ferguson
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#83 2008-06-23 2:35 am
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Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
They may have their record. Guinness has yet to approve it yet, tho.
OPEN SAUCE Web browser Firefox was downloaded more than eight million times in its first 24 hours.
According to a big cheese in the Mozzarella Foundation, at its peak, Firefox's Web site was serving up 17,000 copies a minute.
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The high numbers of downloads were all the more surprising as for the first hour the number of visitors checking for the update overloaded Firefox's Web servers causing them to crash. µ
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"Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."
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#84 2008-07-03 7:51 pm
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Re: Firefox 3.0 Final
Booksley wrote:
Firefox 3.0 will be released June 17th. Get it then and help to possibly set a record!
They got it.
Firefox download record was previously non-existent
Last month’s release of Firefox 3 marked the latest iteration of the second most popular browser behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To mark the occasion, the Firefox 3 team looked to set a world record for the number of downloads in a day.
Firefox 3 was a shoe-in to set the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in a day since the record didn’t previously exist. The record was made official today with Guinness certifying that Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,002,530 times in the first 24 hours of its launch. That number weeds out all duplicate downloads and automated downloads.
Even though Firefox 3 holds the record for most downloads in a day, it still holds a fraction of the browser market that number one Internet Explorer has. According to The Wall Street Journal Firefox held 19.03% of the browser market in June while Internet Explorer captured 73% of the total browser market.
Firefox Grabs Official World Record for Most Downloads in a Day
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion - George Bernard Shaw
"Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."
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