Download Day, part 2

[daidoji_gisei]

So, for whatever reason the Mozilla servers were wonky for the first couple hours of Download Day, but they seem to be running well now. I downloaded Firefox 3 into my work computer because A) I was on company time, and felt obliged to do work-related things and B) if something went horribly, horribly wrong I could make our IT people fix it. But the download and install went smoothly and when I opened it up I found that it did appear to run faster than 2.whatever did. Not that I had a stopwatch or anything, but over time one does develop a feel for how long a frequently-visited page takes to load, and this was faster.

On the downside, the menu bar at the top is Industrial Bland. It's so IB that I might have to poke around and find a custom theme to replace it with. This is a measure of how truly bad it is, because normally I don't really care what my browser looks like and downloading themes involves something resembling work.

At any rate, after I clocked out of work I took shameless advantage of the office's fast wireless connection and downloaded Firefox 3 into Yamadori. The menu is even more annoyingly IB in my Mac, but I'll live.

At this time, the Download Day website is claiming 1.2 million downloads, which to my non-expert eye is pretty good for 4 hours. Also, I am still smitten by that little fox. I wonder if I could get permission to iconize him?

Comments

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

The default icons in Firefox 3.0 are indeed utterly dreadful. I poked around the Addon pages, and ended up downloading these themes to try:

Kempelton 3.0
Phoenity Aura
CrystalFox Qute (requires registration on the firefox site to download, as it's flagged as "in development")

I ended up going for CrystalFox Qute, which gives me clean crystalline icons and an uncluttered menubar. Win!

[daidoji-gisei.livejournal.com]

After looking through my options, Yamadori's copy of Firefox 3 is now clad in Curacao (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3663). I really wanted Glowyblue (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2991), which I had as the theme of the Thunderbird on my work computer, but it doesn't support Firefox 3.

(As an aside, Glowyblue won me the respect of our IT guy, because after he set up Thunderbird on all of the managers' computers not only was I the only one who didn't lessons in how to use it, I had personalized it on my own. )