Off Topic Today is download Firefox Day

[Chewie]

Firefox 3.0 was just released today and Mozilla is trying to break the Guiness Book Record for most downloads in a day. I've installed it on a Mac and just installed it on my Ubuntu machine. Definitely noticeably faster on the Mac. Can't really tell on my Linux machine though.

All in all I like it so far. Only problem I've seen so far, is some of my favorite extensions haven't been updated to support Firefox 3.0 yet. In time those 3rd party developers should add support. However some extensions aren't even needed any more as the functionality was included in this Firefox update.

Show your support and help Mozilla break the record

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Internet Explorer users should definitely make the switch!
Safari users, well that's a completely acceptable browser, but you guys should at least check out this new version of Firefox.

 

[Psychicpet]

dude, I HAD FireFox and tried downloading the new version..... 3 times and no go so I wiped the old version and am going to try at some point to see if I can't get FireFox loaded again..... any reports of bugs?

 

[sloshep]

I'm looking at the forum right now with Firefox 3. So far so good.

 

[Psychicpet]

guess I should have made sure I had OS 10.4 or higher

I just gots measley ol' 10.3.9

now how in the heck do I get an old version of FireFox downloaded!!!

 

[mantrarock]

Got it! already downloaded at home and at the office.

I'm digging the new address bar

 

[NickDuBaldo]

I've been on the FF3B for a few weeks as it came with the newest version of Ubuntu. I did my update to 3.0 on the 17th; I love everything about it save Flash 9... for the life of me, I have not been able to get Flash or Gnash to work properly.

 

[EBMM7181]

I just D/L it to my MacBook. Everything looks great so far, thanks Chewie

 

[Big Poppa]

me too four times

 

[Chewie]

guess I should have made sure I had OS 10.4 or higher

I just gots measley ol' 10.3.9

now how in the heck do I get an old version of FireFox downloaded!!!

Go here Psychic

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

The latest 2.0 version is 2.0.0.14 so you'll probably want to click on mac, then en-US, unless Canadians prefer en-GB, but then again you might want fr

Just joshing ya....

Here's the direct link to the Mac US English version of Firefox 2.0.0.14:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.14/mac/en-US/Firefox 2.0.0.14.dmg

 

[Chewie]

I've been on the FF3B for a few weeks as it came with the newest version of Ubuntu. I did my update to 3.0 on the 17th; I love everything about it save Flash 9... for the life of me, I have not been able to get Flash or Gnash to work properly.

The new Ubuntu is cool like that. It's been using the Beta for months now as the default browser.

I haven't upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 yet, but I was having issues with flash on Ubuntu 7.10 last night at home. I had to download flash directly from the Adobe site. I download the tar.gz version. Once it downloaded to the desktop I right clicked on it and clicked on Extract Here. Then I opened up a terminal window and did the following commands:

cd Desktop/install_flash_player_9/

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins/

I tried copying the flash plugin from my 2.0 version to the 3.0 plugins directory initially, but Firefox still was telling me I needed to install Flash even after doing that. Once I downloaded a fresh copy of flash and put it in the Firefox 3.0 plugins directory it worked.

Technically in Ubuntu 8.04 you should be able to do that all from Synaptic or whatever package manager you prefer, but the above should work just as well, maybe even better. Only downside with my method is you'll have to manually do that again next time a flash update comes out. By then though, I imagine the next version of Ubuntu will be out....

 

[Spudmurphy]

Love Firefox and use it all the time. However, on two occasions it has performed an auto update and I have lost ALL my favourites

Any techie input gratefully received.

 

[DrKev]

I'm running 3 right now. DL and install went almost too smoothly.

 

[GWDavis28]

I've been on the FF3B for a few weeks as it came with the newest version of Ubuntu. I did my update to 3.0 on the 17th; I love everything about it save Flash 9... for the life of me, I have not been able to get Flash or Gnash to work properly.

Nick once again man your my hero!!! Love linux man best thing in the world.

Glenn |B)

 

[phatduckk]

me no likey.

 

[Chewie]

me no likey.

I bet myself a shiny nickel you wouldn't

 

[phatduckk]

I bet myself a shiny nickel you wouldn't

chewie knows my distaste for Mozilla well

what's up with them not having the back button visible by default?

 

[MrMusashi]

use opera instead.. no need for a back button. you just hold down the right mouse button and click the left one

MrM

ps: yes, im norwegian, so is opera.. yes, im a fanboi, but in here that is a good word
pps: the new 9.5 beats everything speedwise.. dont let apple tell ya their safari is the fastest java motor.. and dont be fooled by firebox either.. they all eat the dust opera whirls up when it zooms off

 

[Eggman]

Firefox vulnerability found

Firefox 3 Vulnerability Found - Yahoo! News

Just saw this on yahoo.

 

[phatduckk]

use opera instead.. no need for a back button. you just hold down the right mouse button and click the left one

MrM

ps: yes, im norwegian, so is opera.. yes, im a fanboi, but in here that is a good word
pps: the new 9.5 beats everything speedwise.. dont let apple tell ya their safari is the fastest java motor.. and dont be fooled by firebox either.. they all eat the dust opera whirls up when it zooms off

ya i know the keyboard shortcuts for just about everything... i tend not to use the mouse unless i have to. but ya, try explaining "you dont need a back button" to my mom etc.

Opera's not bad. but it has some issues tho like random CSS rendering bugginess etc.

 

[midopa]

what do you use phat? i use firefox but alternatives would be nice