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Firefox sets record with more than 8 million downloads on first day
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article published on 3 July, 2008
Mozilla has officially announced the results of their world record attempt for the most softoware downloads in a 24 hour period and not surprisingly they've succeeded. Technically this only means at least 1 person downloaded Firefox 3 on its launch date, but the official tally is a slightly higher 8,002,530.
"As the arbiter and recorder of the world's amazing facts, Guinness World Records ... [ read the full article ]
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hoddey
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3. July 2008 @ 15:31 |
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im a record breaker ....RIP Roy Castle
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3. July 2008 @ 15:45 |
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i helped :) about 0.000000125%
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SProdigy
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3. July 2008 @ 16:00 |
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In for TWO! (Home and at work.)
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poolpro
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3. July 2008 @ 16:29 |
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I keep getting crashes when visiting IGN.com
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3. July 2008 @ 17:11 |
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I got it right away, firefox is a great program. Much better than IE
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3. July 2008 @ 22:27 |
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I also helped. Both my home pc's got updated.
I'll take the Fox over IE any day.
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nobrainer
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4. July 2008 @ 05:44 |
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4. July 2008 @ 07:13 |
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wetsparks
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4. July 2008 @ 17:32 |
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I like the accuweather mod for firefox. I never watch the news so this is how I find out what the weather is going to be like for the next couple days (or as close as it can be guessed since I have seen it snow in July before).
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pmshah
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6. July 2008 @ 00:11 |
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I too downloaded it on the prescribed day - twice on 2 diferent machines at 2 different locations.
Although I found it to be quite am improvement - with add-0ns for backing up extensions, favorites & passwords - I have now been forced to start using IE also for one simple reason. IDM's plugin is broken and is blacklisted by default. Ir worked flawlessly with the 2.0.0.xx version.
I could still do it by the process of copy link -> add URL - but it is too mush of a hassle and it leaves out the referrer details. I hope and pray that they - Mozilla & IDM sort out the problems & make the plugin available at the earliest.
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7. July 2008 @ 12:00 |
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I haven't installed it yet because I fear that I will lose all my bookmarks and stuff.
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goodswipe
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7. July 2008 @ 12:11 |
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This comes as no surprise to me, FF is 100 times better then IE.
Originally posted by c1c:
I haven't installed it yet because I fear that I will lose all my bookmarks and stuff.
You wont loose all your bookmarks, go ahead and install.
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pmshah
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8. July 2008 @ 04:10 |
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Originally posted by c1c:
I haven't installed it yet because I fear that I will lose all my bookmarks and stuff.
First of all you won't lose your bookmarks when you upgrade.
There is a new addon calles "Foxmarks" which saves your bookmarks PERFECTLY. In fact it will also allow you to synch these on several different PCs at different locations so long as you have internet connectivity.
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dablur
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8. July 2008 @ 07:00 |
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Too bad it sucks and is really buggy. I was really rooting for FF3... but because it was crashing like 20 times a day on me, especially while downloading a lot of stuff, or having a lot of tabs open (the worst time to crash).. and i was missing a bunch of my bookmarks, luckily i backed them up anyways right before i installed it.
I have reverted back to FF2 until they fix ff3 up some more
congrats for the record and all tho...
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8. July 2008 @ 08:11 |
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dablur
Are you sure it's firefox playing up and not your ram going bad. Try starting it in safe mode, or with strace to see why it is crashing. If it segfaults that's more a sign of a hardware fault than an actual problem with the program. I learned that from experience where the only program causing problems was the fox, just quitting silently with no error message.
That said I haven't upgraded because I'm waiting for lots of plugins which I use being updated.
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8. July 2008 @ 11:14 |
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Originally posted by dablur:
Too bad it sucks and is really buggy. I was really rooting for FF3... but because it was crashing like 20 times a day on me, especially while downloading a lot of stuff, or having a lot of tabs open (the worst time to crash).. and i was missing a bunch of my bookmarks, luckily i backed them up anyways right before i installed it.
I have reverted back to FF2 until they fix ff3 up some more
congrats for the record and all tho...
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Yea, sounds HW related or else you have to much granny pron downloaded with 1000 instances of spyware running in the background.
I've had it for several days now and have yet to have any problems.
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8. July 2008 @ 11:27 |
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I have not had any issues with it thus far either.
*touches wood.
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goodswipe
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8. July 2008 @ 11:37 |
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Originally posted by 7thsinger:
I have not had any issues with it thus far either.
*touches wood.
I'd knock on wood if I were you. You might have a bit more luck, because I've heard touching it doesn't do much.
HUH-HUHUHU-EHEHUHUHEHEH, you said wood...
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nobrainer
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8. July 2008 @ 11:55 |
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Originally posted by goodswipe:
Yea, sounds HW related or else you have to much granny pron downloaded with 1000 instances of spyware running in the background.
I've had it for several days now and have yet to have any problems.
same here, other than a couple of slow downs that were caused by conflicts with the add-ons i use and sun java.
but as a whole the browser is fine.
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8. July 2008 @ 12:13 |
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Originally posted by goodswipe:
Originally posted by 7thsinger:
I have not had any issues with it thus far either.
*touches wood.
I'd knock on wood if I were you. You might have a bit more luck, because I've heard touching it doesn't do much.
HUH-HUHUHU-EHEHUHUHEHEH, you said wood...
Yeah...hehehe...hehehehe...i said WOOD.
On a more serious note; at this point i have no complaints about FF3.
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SuperXL
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12. July 2008 @ 20:07 |
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the only issue i've seen with FF3 is that it doesnt work with some online class stuff i've seen. i kinda checked it out with FF2, but since i'm not in online classes i dont care. but my clients might. i've downloaded it and installed it on a bunch of computers, but havent used it for myself yet. i'll eventually upgrade from 2.x.x.x to 3.x.x.x or whatever.
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