Is it out already ? I'm getting it ...

I've been using the beta for a while but returned to FF2. I will check it out again.

I've been using the last RC but I re-downloaded it twice today haha. Their servers were definitely getting hammered. I've definitely noticed better performance but yea the history bar could get annoying... if only you could toggle it. But I read that it's deeply embedded into the code and that making a toggle would be tough.

One thing I really like now is how FF3 renders some pages, like here. I always look at this site and others with large fonts and now the pages don't break here anymore as compared with FF2. Kewl.

What I'd like to know is how to run ClearType in Firefox. The font is just quite a bit lighter than in IE7 and using the Accessibility options in Control Panel doesn't seem to do it for me. Anyone got any ideas on how to do this?

augie wrote:

One thing I really like now is how FF3 renders some pages, like here. I always look at this site and others with large fonts and now the pages don't break here anymore as compared with FF2. Kewl.

Yeah they've done a nice job of working out the way the browser works with CSS.

Firefox 3 downloads hit 7m despite server FAIL

Mozilla pats self on back regardless

By Kelly Fiveash
18th June 2008


The Mozilla Foundation’s servers yesterday buckled under the strain of its own PR stunt to convince World+Dog to download Firefox 3 and set a new record over a 24-hour period.

So far, at the time of writing, the open source organisation is claiming just over 7m downloads of its latest browser - despite the fact that at launch the Mozilla’s servers went titsup, apparently under the weight of demand.

Firefox 3 Download Day was supposed to break cover at 10am PDT 17 June, but sadly Mozilla’s marketing team hadn’t foreseen what it described as the “outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around” the web browser which it reckoned had been “overwhelming (literally!)”. Quite.

No matter though, said Mozilla, which decided instead to simply bypass the small detail of its servers spitting out html errors and being largely unavailable at launch by starting the official download day once the site finally went live nearly five hours later than planned.

Mozilla will make the record books for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, seeing as there’s no Guinness World Record to beat.

But the PR cock-up prompted one Firefox observer, going by the name Grouchal, to pose the question on Mozilla's forum: "Hasn't the whole thing [record attempt] been ruined by annoying your users?

"You will only get this record now - because no one else has the record - not the record you could have had though with a bit of organisation," said Grouchal


Source: The Register

Grav!ty wrote:

Mozilla will make the record books for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, seeing as there’s no Guinness World Record to beat.

ROFLMAO

LOL, it'll still be hard to beat I bet.

The Register's always somewhere between tongue-in-cheek and downright rude

I think it will be a very tough record to beat...can't think of any contenders I must say.

Grav!ty wrote:

The Register's always somewhere between tongue-in-cheek and downright rude

Oh yeah...what's "World+Dog?"