Re: <OT> Set a Guinness World Record with new Firefox 3.0 </OT>

On Jun 16, 11:04 pm, "Safalra (Stephen Morley)" <nos... (AT) safalra (DOT) com>
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:37:25 -0700 (PDT), VK wrote:
The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008

get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most
software downloads in 24 hours.

Does anyone know the exact time of release (I couldn't find it mentioned
anywhere)? 'Cause 17th June is about 48 hours long, what with all the
timezones.

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

The D-Day is scheduled for June 17, presumably some at the morning PDT
(Mountain View, CA headquarter time zone) ~= GMT evening of June 17.
At the same time the exact hour is not specified because the release
is not released until released: and a last moment adjustment thus
delay are not expected but accounted.

See also http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage

VK schreef:

On Jun 16, 11:04 pm, "Safalra (Stephen Morley)" <nos... (AT) safalra (DOT) com
wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:37:25 -0700 (PDT), VK wrote:
The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008
get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most
software downloads in 24 hours.
Does anyone know the exact time of release (I couldn't find it mentioned
anywhere)? 'Cause 17th June is about 48 hours long, what with all the
timezones.

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

The D-Day is scheduled for June 17, presumably some at the morning PDT
(Mountain View, CA headquarter time zone) ~= GMT evening of June 17.
At the same time the exact hour is not specified because the release
is not released until released: and a last moment adjustment thus
delay are not expected but accounted.

See also http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage

http://twitter.com/mozillafirefox points to
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...&p1=224&sort=1

H.

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On Jun 16, 4:54 pm, VK <schools_r... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

On Jun 16, 11:04 pm, "Safalra (Stephen Morley)" <nos... (AT) safalra (DOT) com
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:37:25 -0700 (PDT), VK wrote:
The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008

get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most
software downloads in 24 hours.

Does anyone know the exact time of release (I couldn't find it mentioned
anywhere)? 'Cause 17th June is about 48 hours long, what with all the
timezones.

Seehttp://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/faq

The D-Day is scheduled for June 17, presumably some at the morning PDT
(Mountain View, CA headquarter time zone) ~= GMT evening of June 17.
At the same time the exact hour is not specified because the release
is not released until released: and a last moment adjustment thus
delay are not expected but accounted.

See alsohttp://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage

I don't know if they will set a record for the number of downloads for
June 17, but they are at least likely setting a record for the number
of checks from the Firefox home page. From about 11 am to 2 pm in the
cdt zone in the US I have checked for updates from the home page of my
Firefox browser at least 15 times. It timed out every time so far. At
first the timeout happened after a few minutes. Now the timeout
happens after about 20 seconds. After the timeout it offers to take
you to the download page, but that has only older versions to download
so far. I am on high broadband DSL, and everything else is coming up
rapidly, so I don't think the problem lies with my isp.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:14:17 -0700 (PDT), cwdjrxyz wrote:

[Firefox 3]
I don't know if they will set a record for the number of downloads for
June 17, but they are at least likely setting a record for the number
of checks from the Firefox home page. From about 11 am to 2 pm in the
cdt zone in the US I have checked for updates from the home page of my
Firefox browser at least 15 times. It timed out every time so far. At
first the timeout happened after a few minutes. Now the timeout
happens after about 20 seconds. After the timeout it offers to take
you to the download page, but that has only older versions to download
so far. I am on high broadband DSL, and everything else is coming up
rapidly, so I don't think the problem lies with my isp.

I finally managed to get a connection, downloaded it, installed it, and I'm
now running Opera. All Firefox 3 seems to do on my machine is use all the
CPU time on that core and fluctuate between 20MB and 60MB of memory, all
with no visible effect. *sigh* No work tonight then - I miss my Firebug...


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On Jun 17, 11:26*pm, "Safalra (Stephen Morley)" <nos... (AT) safalra (DOT) com>
wrote:

I finally managed to get a connection, downloaded it, installed it, and I'm
now running Opera. All Firefox 3 seems to do on my machine is use all the
CPU time on that core and fluctuate between 20MB and 60MB of memory, all
with no visible effect. *sigh* No work tonight then - I miss my Firebug...

You just got misfortune with one of 3rd party addons: check that all
of them are Firefox 3.x - compatible. Of course the version was
throughly tested on Windows Vista before being released. It was
installed w/o any problems on my Windows Vista Home Premium with all
settings from the previous version correctly transferred.

The connection is indeed slow as of now: it tool about 15min to
download 7.8Mb over broadband DSL. From my observations www.getfirefox.com
is more responsive than other sites but that could be a fluctuation.

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its
numbers
grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto
the
fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their
own
image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with
their
children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)

:-)

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT), VK wrote:

On Jun 17, 11:26*pm, "Safalra (Stephen Morley)" <nos... (AT) safalra (DOT) com
wrote:
I finally managed to get a connection, downloaded it, installed it, and I'm
now running Opera. All Firefox 3 seems to do on my machine is use all the
CPU time on that core and fluctuate between 20MB and 60MB of memory, all
with no visible effect. *sigh* No work tonight then - I miss my Firebug...

You just got misfortune with one of 3rd party addons: check that all
of them are Firefox 3.x - compatible. Of course the version was
throughly tested on Windows Vista before being released. It was
installed w/o any problems on my Windows Vista Home Premium with all
settings from the previous version correctly transferred.

The connection is indeed slow as of now: it tool about 15min to
download 7.8Mb over broadband DSL. From my observations www.getfirefox.com
is more responsive than other sites but that could be a fluctuation.

I had a transfer rate of 120KB/s, so it download pretty quickly. I
eventually managed to get it working by completely deleteing the old copy
(fortunately I had saved my bookmarks and screen-grabbed the stored
passwords before I download FF3). I ran it for the first time and was
greeted by this page:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/firstrun/

Which says:

"Thank you for helping test this third Firefox 3 release candidate! This
preview release is being made available for testing purposes only. You
should read the release notes before getting started."

Nice to know they checked everything before launch...


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On 18 Jun, 15:03, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Captain Paralytic <paul_laut... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
On 17 Jun, 20:26, "Safalra (Stephen Morley)" <nos... (AT) safalra (DOT) com
wrote:
I finally managed to get a connection, downloaded it, installed it,
and I'm now running Opera. All Firefox 3 seems to do on my machine is
use all the CPU time on that core and fluctuate between 20MB and 60MB
of memory, all with no visible effect. *sigh* No work tonight then -
I miss my Firebug...

Likewise!

Installed it, found that FireBug wasn't compatible, dumped it. I just
can't work without FireBug!

Firebug 1.2.0 alpha seems to work alright: the only problems I've found
were finding a suitable download url (http://www.npire.de/firebug/worked
for me), and sometimes firebug seems to want to debug a different tab than
the one it was opened in.

--
Duncan Boothhttp://kupuguy.blogspot.com

When I fired up FF3 it told me that there was no compatible version of
firebug and I just believed it.

Captain Paralytic wrote:

On 18 Jun, 15:03, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> wrote:
Captain Paralytic <paul_laut... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
[Firefox 3.0]
Installed it, found that FireBug wasn't compatible, dumped it. I just
can't work without FireBug!
Firebug 1.2.0 alpha seems to work alright: the only problems I've found
were finding a suitable download url (http://www.npire.de/firebug/worked
for me), and sometimes firebug seems to want to debug a different tab than
the one it was opened in.
[...]

When I fired up FF3 it told me that there was no compatible version of
firebug and I just believed it.

Well, it's not officially released yet.

FYI: Firebug 1.2.0b3 (simply follow the "releases" link[1]) is recommended
for Fx 3 by the Firebug team and appears to work fine in "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0".

[1] <http://getfirebug.com/releases/index.html>


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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

FYI: Firebug 1.2.0b3 (simply follow the "releases" link[1]) is
recommended
for Fx 3 by the Firebug team and appears to work fine in "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906
Firefox/3.0".

I'm having an issue that firebug 1.2.0b3 in FF3 on the console display
with option "Show XMLHttpRequests" changes the behaviour of my code.
With it on, the window.setTimeout function works. With that option off,
the statement below hangs:

var t = window.setTimeout(
function()
{console.log("in pause")
xmlHttp.open("GET","/ajax_data",true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}, 1000);
console.log("post pause")

On the console see the "in pause" message, but not the "post pause"

What is firebug doing that changes the behaviour of this statement? How
can I make that statement