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FireFox 3 Release Thread of Burning Animals Hugging Globes
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JonathanEx
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4.7 million! Go go Firefox!
And I reiterate my stance that the awesome bar becomes awesome when you use it and it adapts to your browsing habits. And when you tag bookmarks.
And I reiterate my stance that the awesome bar becomes awesome when you use it and it adapts to your browsing habits. And when you tag bookmarks.
I fucking hate the new bar.
But I fixed it.
Go into about:config and chance "Browser.urlbar.search.chunkSize" to 0 and set "browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped" to True.
This returns the bar to its FF2 state.
But I fixed it.
Go into about:config and chance "Browser.urlbar.search.chunkSize" to 0 and set "browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped" to True.
This returns the bar to its FF2 state.
JonathanEx
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If people finding porn is a problem, then just use Safari for it, private browsing mode.
Barkley's Justice
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Xabora said:
nice...that "awesome" bar was fucking wack
Tony Rocky Horror
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4,992,372 w00t. We're doing awesome, internet! :lol
Edit: Oh snap. 4,999,043
Edit: Oh snap. 4,999,043
StopMakingSense
Member
Huh, I guess Im just in time for 5 million.
Did you guys see the IE team sent Mozilla a cake?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thunder/278483422/
Apparently it's a victoria sponge, but was baked using a non-standard baking format, it's layered 'Jam-Sponge-Jam'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thunder/278483422/
Apparently it's a victoria sponge, but was baked using a non-standard baking format, it's layered 'Jam-Sponge-Jam'
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
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Souldriver
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Go Chad! Already 1 people have downloaded FF3 there! :lol
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
Souldriver
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Yeah, Russia and Canada are the two countries I always underestimate, because the globe curve makes them look smaller. But when you see a flat map of the countries, you realise they go on forever.Tieno said:
Souldriver
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How is that exactly? Do they stretch them or something?6.8 said:
What's with Iran having so much Firefox 3 downloads?
Anyway, for the people hating on the Awesome bar, I'm guessing you're all using the same profile that you were using in Firefox 2. The thing needs time to adjust to your browsing habits in order to start displaying the more likely addresses that you want to visit. If you start off with a new, clean profile, it's obvious that it works straight away from the get-go.
It just seems clumsy at first because it hasn't had enough time to learn and adapt to the thousands of links in your history yet. I recommend you give it a couple days, just put up with the clumsiness for a bit because you might love it once it starts to work. If you still don't like it then, I guess switch it back to the original behaviour after you've given it a chance.
Of course, that's meaningless if you're complaining because the porn you've been looking at inadvertently shows up, because if you look at it often, obviously, awesome bar will give it more preference
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I have one question: What's always annoyed me is if you clicked on a link to a file, and you get the Open/Save dialog, when you click Open, it downloads the file to your default save destination instead of saving it in it's cache and opening that one instead like IE does. Whose dumb fuck idea is this, and is there a way to change this action?
The way it is now, Open just does the same thing as Save, except you can't choose the folder to save to (it puts it in your default folder), and it opens the file after it's saved it.
Anyway, for the people hating on the Awesome bar, I'm guessing you're all using the same profile that you were using in Firefox 2. The thing needs time to adjust to your browsing habits in order to start displaying the more likely addresses that you want to visit. If you start off with a new, clean profile, it's obvious that it works straight away from the get-go.
It just seems clumsy at first because it hasn't had enough time to learn and adapt to the thousands of links in your history yet. I recommend you give it a couple days, just put up with the clumsiness for a bit because you might love it once it starts to work. If you still don't like it then, I guess switch it back to the original behaviour after you've given it a chance.
Of course, that's meaningless if you're complaining because the porn you've been looking at inadvertently shows up, because if you look at it often, obviously, awesome bar will give it more preference
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I have one question: What's always annoyed me is if you clicked on a link to a file, and you get the Open/Save dialog, when you click Open, it downloads the file to your default save destination instead of saving it in it's cache and opening that one instead like IE does. Whose dumb fuck idea is this, and is there a way to change this action?
The way it is now, Open just does the same thing as Save, except you can't choose the folder to save to (it puts it in your default folder), and it opens the file after it's saved it.
I'm sure most people there don't have the Internets. Or computers.SteveO409 said:
I forgot what it's called, but the specific method their map uses to project the Earth onto a 2D plane does not preserve area, so the area becomes increasingly distorted exaggerated as you approach the poles. For example, Greenland is very obviously exaggerated on that map.Souldriver said:
lockii said:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robceemoz/2588746706/Ghost said:
I'll raise your last-gen cake with cake 3.0.
fistfulofmetal
Banned
Svalbard and Jan Mayen need to get on the fucking ball.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Wow, 6 million.
Firefox FTMFW!
Firefox FTMFW!
i <3 my awesomebar. beside for the faster javascript engine it's my favorite part of the new FF3.
for those using FF3 and Vista Aero, use the glasser extension for extra visual goodness - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7336
for those using FF3 and Vista Aero, use the glasser extension for extra visual goodness - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7336
James Power
Banned
Well, I don't want to rain on your parade, but I don't get the mindless hype behind this release. Compared to a fresh Opera installation the latest Firefox feels like its retarded little brother. There are dozens and dozens of feature that are default in Opera you don't initially have available in FF. Also Opera is way more customizable - if you know what you're doing.
Only problem with Opera is that its latest release is one big fuckup and there are just way too many sites not working properly. Even if it's not Opera's fault it's annoying. Plus Opera has problems with Java, so FF still has its right to exist as a kind of backup browser for these sites. But besides that? Surfing with FF is not nearly as smooth and fun and easygoing as with Opera.
So why is Firefox and each release so popular with the public? It's almost scary. Probably because it's so very mainstream, doesn't demand much from its user and still has this "independent" image that's so important to its users.
Only problem with Opera is that its latest release is one big fuckup and there are just way too many sites not working properly. Even if it's not Opera's fault it's annoying. Plus Opera has problems with Java, so FF still has its right to exist as a kind of backup browser for these sites. But besides that? Surfing with FF is not nearly as smooth and fun and easygoing as with Opera.
So why is Firefox and each release so popular with the public? It's almost scary. Probably because it's so very mainstream, doesn't demand much from its user and still has this "independent" image that's so important to its users.
Seems like there's a further reason why India's download count is so low (and possibly why the US is so disproportionately high):
EDIT: Nay, it will reach over 10 million, I says! :0
A quarter of a million away from 7m! I think this thing could hit 8.5 or even 9 million by the time it's done.
EDIT: Nay, it will reach over 10 million, I says! :0
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