Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST

Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST 1080

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:28AM from the there's-no-pleasing-some-people dept.

boustrophedon writes "Starting at midnight in their local timezones, downloaders have been asking when Firefox 3 will be ready for Firefox Download Day, June 17, 2008. Mary announced on the Spread Firefox Forum that downloads will commence at 10 AM PST." That means 1 p.m. East Coast time, and, in Justin Mason's view, some pretty annoying times of day for many parts of the world. Reader CorinneI supplies a link to PC Magazine's (very positive) overview of the new version's features, which praises the "speedy performance, thrifty memory usage, and, in particular, the address bar that now predicts where you want to go when you start typing (what Mozilla insiders refer to as the Awesome Bar)." FF3, even in Beta and RC form, and even with the extension incompatibilities I've run into, has quickly replaced FF2 as my preferred browser — for me, the improved drop-down autocomplete behavior alone is enough to justify the switch.

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I will not.... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:32AM (#23823811)

be downloading FF!

IE 5 is good enough for me!

Re:My findings... (Score:5, Funny)

by ndansmith ( 582590 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:37AM (#23823917)

I've been using the RC releases, and while I do like the new browser, the memory footprint is still a monster. Currently, it's using over 175MB of ram for the windows I have open (21 different pages) - and that seems excessive to me.
You're right, 21 pages seems excessive to me as well.

Re:I will not.... (Score:5, Funny)

by kvezach ( 1199717 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:39AM (#23823971)

IE 5 is good enough for me!

I know, but did you have to advertise it? I had just finished owning your computer; now all the other slashdotters will get on and kick me off with their own kits!

Re:And unofficially... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:41AM (#23823989)

Great, only 20456:55:40 to go!

Re:What is this in Euros? (Score:3, Funny)

by oodaloop ( 1229816 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:43AM (#23824037)

I think 'free' uses the same number of zeros in Euros as it does in dollars.

Re:What is this in Euros? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:50AM (#23824151)

Actually, at the current exchange rate 0 Euros is a few bucks or so.

Re:Time Zones (Score:5, Funny)

by sm62704 ( 957197 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:57AM (#23824245) Journal

in Justin Mason's view, some pretty annoying times of day for many parts of the world

Sure, I can see lining up at my daughter's GameStop store at midnight, considering that whatever game they want may be sold out quickly.

But a download? Who cares what time of day it's available? If it's available at 1:00 AM your time, then just start the download when you wake up, or when you get home from work.

They're not going to run out of Firefoxes, you know. Relax.

Re:When will their servers die? 1:02pm? (Score:5, Funny)

by Bearpaw ( 13080 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @11:59AM (#23824305)

Sure, but how much smoke do they have?

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:3, Funny)

by hansonc ( 127888 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:00PM (#23824327) Homepage

you must have a different clock than the rest of us... 10am PST is still an hour away for me...

Re:My findings... (Score:2, Funny)

by Hyppy ( 74366 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:03PM (#23824367)

My finding is that... it's fun to click the back button. It's pretty, round, and stands out. It literally POPS off the screen to say "Hello, please click me!".

Sadly enough, this is a completely serious post.

Re:My findings... (Score:5, Funny)

by FauxPasIII ( 75900 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:10PM (#23824481)

> It literally POPS off the screen to say "Hello, please click me!".

Where the hell did you buy that monitor?

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:5, Funny)

by penguin_dance ( 536599 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:13PM (#23824537)

But if he waits too long, they might run out. ;-)

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:5, Funny)

by Sabz5150 ( 1230938 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:17PM (#23824581)

Why's he moaning about what time it starts at when people have a whole twenty-four hours to find a suitable time to download the thing? It's not like we all have to sprint to our computers and start it on the minute.
We are Slashdot! Turning servers into slag is what we do best!

Re:I hope they have an MSI version for windows (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:18PM (#23824597)

Hmmm, Windows and STD in the same post, wish I could say I was surprised.

Re:I will not.... (Score:5, Funny)

by brunascle ( 994197 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:21PM (#23824633)

you didnt know? Opera is adware. fortunately, we have IE 5.0 and Netscape Navigator as alternatives.

wtf is Firefox?

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:2, Funny)

by roaddemon ( 666475 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:27PM (#23824743)

You obviously don't have my internet connection. I was hoping they'd do this on the fall daylight savings time day so I'd have an extra hour.

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:3, Funny)

by julesh ( 229690 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:38PM (#23824931)

It's not like we all have to sprint to our computers and start it on the minute.

In fact, the organisers are probably relying on the fact that we won't. If a record-breaking number of downloads for a 24 hour period occurred all starting within a few minutes of each other, I don't think even mozilla.org's servers would survive for long.

Re:I'll pick it up (Score:4, Funny)

by gardyloo ( 512791 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:39PM (#23824955)

Heathen! It _should_ say "About Iceweasel". You Ubuntuers and your impure software practices!

Re:Firefox Download Day (Score:4, Funny)

by iknowcss ( 937215 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @12:44PM (#23825033) Homepage

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

Uh oh.

Re:I will not.... (Score:4, Funny)

by BobNET ( 119675 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:00PM (#23825311)

Opera is adware.

You can pay for it and get a version without the ads. And I hear Opera 7 will have a Bork [opera.com] edition!

Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)

by bluie- ( 1172769 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:00PM (#23825319)

The site seems to be bogged down for some reason...

1:04pm (Score:5, Funny)

by mattwarden ( 699984 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:05PM (#23825455)

The servers, the servers, the servers are on fire.
The servers, the servers, the servers are on fire.
We don't need to download let the motherf***ers burn.
Burn motherf***ers, burn.

DDOS world record (Score:5, Funny)

by renrutal ( 872592 ) writes: <renrutal@gmail.com> on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:07PM (#23825503)

I believe they will attempt the world record for the largest, willing, Distributed Denial of Service Attack.

Well, what the hell, lets help bury their servers :)

Re:Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)

by ahijado ( 961908 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:08PM (#23825557)

This would be funny if the servers are down for 24 hours.

Typical (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:17PM (#23825789)

The one time I try to RTFA, the one time....

Re:I will not.... (Score:2, Funny)

by meuhlavache ( 1101089 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:17PM (#23825807) Homepage

wtf is Firefox?

Something like that! [blogger.com]

Re:Timezone (Score:5, Funny)

by Dragonslicer ( 991472 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:19PM (#23825863)

You said it - "standard" time. We all know how USA likes to not use standard units.
Exactly. Everyone knows that timezones like EST and PST aren't standard.

Hoax! (Score:5, Funny)

by birdguy ( 130777 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:35PM (#23826223)

The idea of having the largest one day download was a Microsoft hoax designed to create a DOS attack on Mozilla.

Re:My findings... (Score:3, Funny)

by CopaceticOpus ( 965603 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:36PM (#23826245)

Gah, conflicting anecdotal evidence! Now how can I decide if FF3 crashes alot or not?

Okay Everyone ... (Score:5, Funny)

by Archangel Michael ( 180766 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:36PM (#23826251) Journal

Keep hitting that "refresh" button to try and get to the Download site. I'm pretty sure that will help out the slashdot effect!

Re:Download (Score:5, Funny)

by Pollardito ( 781263 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:43PM (#23826449)

and if you, for example, want to download firefox 4.0, you should change the link like so: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0&os=win&lang=en-US [mozilla.org] in this manner you can avoid the rush of people downloading 3.0 and the rush that will surely come with 4.0 as well.

Re:I will not.... (Score:3, Funny)

by Just Some Guy ( 3352 ) writes: <kirk+slashdot@strauser.com> on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:49PM (#23826581) Homepage Journal

Whoosh

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:3, Funny)

by jez9999 ( 618189 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:51PM (#23826621) Homepage Journal

In fact, the organisers are probably relying on the fact that we won't. If a record-breaking number of downloads for a 24 hour period occurred all starting within a few minutes of each other, I don't think even mozilla.org's servers would survive for long.

They haven't. mozilla.com is dead as a dodo. Why didn't they host the FF3 downloads on Google's gear? Seems that would be sensible.

Re:I'm going to miss (Score:2, Funny)

by Hal_Porter ( 817932 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:54PM (#23826703)

Google Sync though, it made it easy to keep all my systems in umm... sync.
Google sync is spyware. If you check with ethereal it quite clearly sends details of your bookmarks to a Google server.

My bad - (Score:5, Funny)

by BucketOfLard ( 928627 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:54PM (#23826723)

Sorry people - I meant to hit DOWNLOAD, but accidentally hit DOS ATTACK.
Boy is my face red.

I did it! (Score:3, Funny)

by FirstTimeCaller ( 521493 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @01:55PM (#23826745)

I'm running Firefox 3.0 now! My god, the net has never looked so beautiful! I think I'm going to cry... *sniff* *sniff*

fox mirror (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @02:18PM (#23827221)

http://media.buzzhumor.com/7/1197615060_1184265009_Megan_Fox_35b99310.jpg

FireFox successfully D.O.S. attacked themselves (Score:5, Funny)

by jackspenn ( 682188 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @02:27PM (#23827383)

Sites been down for awhile. Maybe the Mozilla team can get the Guinness Book of World Record's "Most effective self inflicted denial of service attack."

Re:My findings... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @03:09PM (#23828175)

Gah, conflicting anecdotal evidence! Now how can I decide if FF3 crashes alot or not?
Surf MySpace?

Re:It works (Score:3, Funny)

by glop ( 181086 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @03:10PM (#23828189)

I downloaded it too.
Let's see if slashdot can handle the load of everybody reporting their successful download of Firefox!

Re:Download (Score:5, Funny)

by briggsb ( 217215 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @03:22PM (#23828381)

Looks like Microsoft thinks the same thing, as they are abandoning development of IE8 for FF3 [bbspot.com].

Re:Download (Score:3, Funny)

by Cro Magnon ( 467622 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @04:11PM (#23829109) Homepage Journal

You're absolutely right that the product comes first but they have to make a splash - their rivals do.

Maybe, but it doesn't help if the "splash" is the sound of FF3 downloads falling in the mud.

Re:I hope they have an MSI version for windows (Score:3, Funny)

by Culture20 ( 968837 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @05:02PM (#23830105)

I used to screw up your workstation in the middle of the night. Now I maintain servers during the middle of the day and no one notices. ;-D

Re:Download (Score:3, Funny)

by isorox ( 205688 ) writes: on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @06:30PM (#23831481) Homepage Journal

and if you, for example, want to download firefox 4.0, you should change the link like so:

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0&os=win&lang=en-US [mozilla.org]
404, they must have all been downloaded -- are there more due in stock?

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I will not.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:My findings... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I will not.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:And unofficially... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What is this in Euros? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What is this in Euros? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Time Zones (Score:5, Funny)

Re:When will their servers die? 1:02pm? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:3, Funny)

Re:My findings... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:My findings... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I hope they have an MSI version for windows (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I will not.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I'll pick it up (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Firefox Download Day (Score:4, Funny)

Re:I will not.... (Score:4, Funny)

Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)

1:04pm (Score:5, Funny)

DDOS world record (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)

Typical (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I will not.... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Timezone (Score:5, Funny)

Hoax! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:My findings... (Score:3, Funny)

Okay Everyone ... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Download (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I will not.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Download DAY, Justin (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I'm going to miss (Score:2, Funny)

My bad - (Score:5, Funny)

I did it! (Score:3, Funny)

fox mirror (Score:1, Funny)

FireFox successfully D.O.S. attacked themselves (Score:5, Funny)

Re:My findings... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:It works (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Download (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Download (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:Download (Score:3, Funny)

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