I’m told by George (no link for George) that the Spread Firefox is ‘b0rking under the load!’
But before all this popularity could go to our head, it went to our servers—and they struggled. Please bear with us through outages and slowdowns as we work to manage the load; we hope to have the download counter updating more frequently when we get our site functioning better under this massive load.
OK – I’m a big Mozilla Firefox fan, and that’s why I’m going to have a small gripe.
Far be it from me to complain, but I have a two small issues with PR1 of Firefox.
1. Mail options in menus that only work (I assume) if you use Thunderbird. So why are they there?
2. Spread Firefox link in the Tools menu
OK, strike that one, I swear that at 8:35 BST that the link wasn’t working, and that it actually crashed my newly installed PR1. They must have just uploaded it.
“Two tiny problems, who cares? It’s a just a preview release”, says Tom Bungalow, the most apathetic of my many personalities. Well, I reply, when it is the main download link on the homepage of Mozilla.org and it’s this close to the real deal (ie, version 1) one doesn’t expect these kind of issues. It also makes me look like a obscure-software-evangelising-freak recommending broken software to my buddies who are quite happy with IE.
AND, if we’re promoting this thing with Spread Firefox (hope the link works), it’s got to be sharp. No use talking it up (you know, “The Browser you can trust”) if it does silly things, no matter how trivial they are, as anyone that has built any kind of application will know.
And for those who are upgrading, I don’t think that this is emphasized enough: when you upgrade, start with a new profile!
Windows users: Start > run > “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe” -p
Another step into the 21st century the other week. I ordered a book ( Joel on Software ) through amazon and it arrived on Monday. And I thought that they’d just charge me and not deliver….
Living in London, I spend a hefty percentage of my time on the underground. Generally I hate it, but I also realise it’s one of those things that I will really miss about London when the time comes to leave.
The next train is for High Barnet. Barnet is British slang for ‘Hair’.
“…the nation-state system has been one of the must brutal and destructive creations of Europe and its offshoots, imposed by force on much of the rest of the world, with horrendous consequences for centuries in Europe, and elsewhere until the present.” See the full ting ‘ere.
This is from a debate in which the great man has honoured Noah Cohen by taking it “seriously enough” to respond.
Damn straight. The new Mozilla site is cool . Or, as they say, “Firefox: wired. IE: expired”. Yeah baby.
