Firefox 3 download day - how are you getting involved?

Jonny Evans
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June 17, 2008
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rsbell (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 6:36am

Really couldn't care less.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 8:38am

And yet, you obviously cared enough about it to post your irrelevant reply, which adds absolutely nothing of value to the conversation.

Brilliant.

Serge (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 6:45am

It's just a big marketing scheme game and I'm not playing.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 6:59am

"It's just a big marketing scheme game and I'm not playing."

If that were posted anywhere other than an Apple related site it would be hilarious. ;)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 7:00am

Got Safari, don't need Firefox :p

iDAG (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 7:08am

I think there should be an option about not downloading it. I have Safari and I'm very happy with it (plus Apple makes it).

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 7:21am

No way I'm bothering today.

1. The servers will be hammered
2. It'll take a few days for the worst bugs to be known about and fixed.
3. No adblock support! - that's a showstopper.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 9:05am

"3. No adblock support! - that's a showstopper."
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I know it's not native build in. But it is great

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 10:39am

Adblock plus is specifically tagged as *not* FF3 compatible. It won't even load.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 8:23am

Meh. Firefox is still too Windows-y. I'll wait for whatever gecko upgrades to reach Camino.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 10:14am

Marketing scheme or no, as a web designer, the more people they can get on to standards compliant browsers the better as far as I'm concerned. Death to IE!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 11:47am

Can't get to a webpage to download it...

p (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 3:31pm

i'm disappointed, yet not surprised, to find out that 16% of 9to5mac readers have their heads up their asses.

ps-- the servers are working perfectly at this writing. i hope the problem isn't with your browser?

Orng (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 5:39pm

I had trouble with the servers for the first two hours after I got the email. But then it got better and I've downloaded it onto 6 machines: three macs, two XP boxes and one Windows 2000 box.

Pleased with it on the secondary machines but i won't install on the mission- critical machine until the FireFTP extension is FF3 ready. And all the bugs are squished.

The mac version looks a bit more like a mac app than FF2, which is nice, but I keep hoping brushed metal will go back to 2005 where it belongs!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 8:36pm

the server wasnt down and safari was an option above.
and its just article, why are peopl so hateful?

mozilla is trying to break a record for most downloaded app in a day or something.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 18, 2008 - 6:52pm

I downloaded v3 and it SUCKS!!! Where can I find a download of v2? v3 is WAY too slow and doesn't load half of the pages that v2 does for some reason.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 18, 2008 - 6:56pm

As far as I'm concerned, there is really no great browser for the Mac. Safari has too few features, Webkit isn't really all that faster than Safari, I used to use Firefox, but it ate up all my RAM, so now I'm actually using Opera, as much as I detest it. Eh, whatever, it works well enough for me.

Zjokke (not verified) | June 19, 2008 - 3:33am

They missed the ball on this one.
My version 2 did not pick up there is a new version available. Even when I manually click on the 'check for updates...' menu, there is no mention of the version 3... not too smart I think.