Congrats to everyone involved. It’s now a world record. The magic number is 8,002,530.
Even after the first 24 hours, the downloads keep coming. 3.0 is one hell of a good release.
This really isn’t very accurate. I don’t know the details of the vulnerability or even if there actually is one, but I question the marketing around the Zero Day Initiatives vulnerability report. The big news seems to be “only 5 hours” after the release.
This isn’t really accurate if you think about it. [...]
It was a ton of fun to watch, absolutely addictive. 83 terabytes of data served just for downloads over 24 hours. There’s still a ton of people to update as the auto-update functionality has yet to be triggered. You can now see the scale of what’s involved. John Lilly’s got some [...]
Something tells me that at about 10:00 PST / 1:00 EST something big will be happening.
I sure hope someone is interested .
The Daily WTF has a great post on Firefox Deleting Printers. Be aware of that bug. I checked bugzilla, and don’t think it’s been fixed for Firefox 3.
Note: For those who aren’t familiar with The Daily WTF, it’s not a real bug, just a fool who thinks it’s there.
Deb Richardson has a really sweet guide on what’s new in Firefox 3. If you don’t already know, you should go read that now.
Check out Robert Scoble on Firefox 3. I’d quote him, but I can’t find the appropriate part to quote. I get the impression he’s used it a few times before.
It’s happening again. Once upon a time, browser vendors started adding their own features without consulting with each other and agreeing upon standards. What they created was a giant mess of inconsistencies across browsers and platforms that is still in effect today. Ask any web developer and they can tell you of [...]
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