Firefox 3 Download Day --> Download *Time*

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matthijs wrote:Amazes me how upgrading software can be so easy and painless. Download. Drag to application folder. Start.
...and hence why people like myself aren't using Linux when you have to mess with a console just to install software. I always get so tempted to start a thread about the need for binaries on Linux. :|
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nice 8,902,999 downloads

about 103 downloads per second, amazing :crazy:
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Where'd you get that figure?
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That seems about right - ole and I were at the FF3 release party at Mozilla HQ yesterday and they had a live counter going. Saw it climb from 1 million to about 4.5 by the time we left around 11 - there's a map somewhere that has the stats broken down by country.
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JAB Creations wrote:Where'd you get that figure?
It was here http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/.
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Wow, did you guys notice that FF3 now supports total page zooming? Instead of only an increase in text-size, CMD-+ suddenly zoomed the whole page.. :) 8O
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JAB Creations wrote:...and hence why people like myself aren't using Linux when you have to mess with a console just to install software. I always get so tempted to start a thread about the need for binaries on Linux. :|
Or one could say that software is "so easy" to install, you can do it from the console by typing a simple command.
yum install firefox
Linux is enjoyable to use once you get past the initial learning curve.
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Ehm... About that Firefox thing earlier on this thread I was talking about. I noticed that I can't open links from external applications anymore. It just alerts me with a message that says "Firefox is already running".

I use Aptana Studio and I can't run my applications by clicking "Run > Firefox" anymore.

I don't me to bother anyone with my Firefox problems but it's just that I used to love Firefox for it's ease of use. But now the ease of use thing isn't so hot when running two versions on a single computer.
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JellyFish wrote:Ehm... About that Firefox thing earlier on this thread I was talking about. I noticed that I can't open links from external applications anymore. It just alerts me with a message that says "Firefox is already running".

That is the very annoying aspect about -no-remote. I don't use it on easy to access shortcuts to Firefox though I do in the archives. Remove it, restart Firefox (by choosing a shortcut without -no-remote) and this issue will no longer occur.

If there is a work around to have your cake and eat it too then uh...I dunno. :mrgreen:
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easter egg!

put "about:robots" in the address bar :-)
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I kept clicking the button and I all I got was evaporation! :|
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they have a plan...
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