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Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:07 PM
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Quote from mshapiro · 10:39, June 17th, 2008 · Firefox, Mozilla News Firefox 3 coming soon!
The outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around Firefox 3 has been overwhelming (literally!). Our servers are currently feeling the burn and should be back to normal shortly. Download day will officially commence once the site goes live. The 24 hours period will be clocked from that moment. Thanks for your continued support.
Looks like they've missed the 10:00 PDT deadline due to overload!!
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:08 PM
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Mozilla can't be accessed tonight - too busy but have just managed to get it from http://www.vnunet.com/articles/download/2170605 (link from the Computeractive forum/Internet section).
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:23 PM
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I have just downloaded and installed it - surprised how fast it is, and the about page definately says v3 - no mention of it be an RC version. I think everyone is trying to get to mozilla.com which has overloaded their server.
Mike's link seems to go straight to a pool of mirror servers. Mine came from .cz at about 630kbps. I tried a second time just to see what server came up and it was one in .br (brazil).
Peter
[edit] Forgot to say thankyou.
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:34 PM
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You're right, that's a link direct from Mozilla. They have a selected pool of mirrors for each defined release, so it seems that too many people are going to www.spreadfirefox.com and www.getfirefox.com to find out what the link is.
I suggest that people do not download from various file-hosting websites, as it will not go towards the official record count (I can't confirm yet if the link I've provided does, but it's the official Mozilla link and follows the same URL scheme as previous versions, so I imagine it will).
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:40 PM
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Enjoy the best browser the web has seen!
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:42 PM
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There is no mention of RC now so that's good.
Thanks again.
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:44 PM
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Quote from: MikeWhitehead Enjoy the best browser the web has seen!
Arguably
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 7:46 PM
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cp:quote
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 8:01 PM
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Firefox is good but I didn't see version 3 yet which is the best browser the web has ever seen, according to Mike Whitehead.... arguably
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
17-06-2008 8:08 PM
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Quote from: axisofevil Does that mean that the eee cannot reuse space used by programs?
Yep!
Much in the same way that some PC have a recovery partition, the eee uses UnionFS. The difference being that you use the files in recovery ("System") partition, but they are read only. Any changes you make are saved in the "User" partition, and these override the copy in the "System" partition. The snag being that you can not (easily) recover the space.
So for example you update OpenOffice, and end up with two copies taking up disk space. Which as the eee uses a SSD disk is very limited. (4G on the model I have.)
A few more links from the eeeuser wiki;
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:makechangespermanent?s=unionfs
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:removeunionfs?s=unionfs
Quote In layman's terms: The first partition is mounted read-only and the second partition is mounted “on top of it”. All changes you make are made on the second partition. This is safer but has the disadvantage that it is harder to tweak the parts of the system that are used while booting the system (e.g. the grub menu). Additionally you cannot recover space from the first partition by uninstalling packages (and actually if you update a package (e.g. skype) you have two copies on your system, the original one on the first partition and the new version on the second one (which shadows the original one)).
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
18-06-2008 8:31 AM
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I'm seriously considering rolling back to V2 . I'm sure it will be fixwed ina few weeks time
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
18-06-2008 8:40 AM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
18-06-2008 8:45 AM
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Has anyone heard the total number of downloads achieved?
cp:quote
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
18-06-2008 8:57 AM
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http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord shows a nice little interactive map, and a total just beneath
B.
Re: Tomorrow is Firefox 3 day
18-06-2008 8:57 AM
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Quote from: artmo Has anyone heard the total number of downloads achieved?
Hit the 5 million mark at 0855 BST
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