Spread Firefox - Download Day 2008

[reyfer]

It is now official

Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a safer, smarter and better Web.

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

[xerony]

just as I hoped, they got a world record

[Saburo]

Well I made the upgrade to 3.0 and it works just fine.

Only thing: I got some weird layout issues on a few websites: Deadspin, Live Journal and some other bit blog sites.  Text and graphics don't sync together, ending up in a linear mush that requires a lot of scrolling down.  I use plain ol' Firefox 2.0 at work and don't have the screwy formatting issues on those websites.

Anyone have the same problem with 3.0?  I can't seem to find any information/fixes on Google...

[StreakInTheSky]

That's weird, I don't look at many blogs, but the ones I do, look fine for me. And Deadspin looks alright too.

[Saburo]

FWIW here's a screenshot from a couple days ago:



What should be aligned on a row on the top is instead formatted on the left column.  Hella strange...

[Saburo]

OK someone told me the "style sheet" isn't loading.  Could a FF add-on (adblock?) be causing this?

[Saburo]

Answer: yes.  Tweaks made.  Case closed.

Thanks for your patience.

[Dronak]

I took part in this.  I don't know if they've come out with final numbers from this event though.  I think they said it could take a few weeks before everything was sorted out and confirmed.

P.S. -- An update to version 3.0.1 is available now.

[ziggurat]

Answer: yes.  Tweaks made.  Case closed.

Thanks for your patience.

yeah, this happens in opera too when you enable the ad filtering user stylesheet. It break some websites that use ads.

[junkie_with_a_monkey]

I have to say that this is the kind of viral marketing that I hate. I don't have anything against FireFox really, I use it, but it's annoying when they get people to get other people to download it =/ it's like free marketing for them. And it's like working for them for free or listening to friends advertise you stuff =/

[StreakInTheSky]

Nothing wrong with it imo. Firefox is a free program which uses only "word of mouth" to advertise.

[junkie_with_a_monkey]

Yeah but so are almost all other browsers =/ And this is less about your friends telling you that it's good and more about the company telling people that they should tell their friends that it's good.

But meh, that's just my opinion =d

[StreakInTheSky]

Well its main competition doesn't really need any advertising cause they come standard in the OS, which in some way you do pay for it. And then most other browsers are also closed source.

I see this like a band street team. There are people who go out and spread the word not because they're getting paid, but to show their support. Of course there are those teams who get shit for doing stuff, but you don't get anything from spreading this around. It not like they used any really dirty tactics, unless you think telling people to spread the word is dirty...

[Saburo]

Just curious: is the new Firefox 3.6 worth the upgrade?  Some of my plugins didn't make the cut and I can't leave home without them...

[3headedknight]

Did you check whether there are more up-to-date versions of your plugins? I don't mean just going to Tools->Add-ons->Find Updates but actually going to the homepages of the plugins and checking. I think I've had to do that at least once.
Upgrading one's browser if possible is generally a good idea because of the security updates often packaged with new releases.

[Saburo]

Any suggestions for a download manager plugin?  I use downthemall but it freezes up Firefox on my new desktop and I have to use Task Manager to kill the program in Windows 7.  Right-click saving seems to work OK but I prefer the convenience of saving my download locations, etc.

Used to be one of my fave plugins and never had any issues on my ancient XP machine.  Thanks for any suggestions.

[Saburo]

Firefox...  10.0?!! 

Worth the update?

[Asmodai]

https://donate.mozilla.org/page/contribute/firefoxtshirt

Just donated to get my T-Shirt.

(in blue)

[paijokece]

firefox 16 lol 
i dunno what happened with firefox