Download Day!

Yesterday I learned that Mozilla was on the verge of releasing Firefox 3. Last night I learned that there is a movement afoot to set a world record for downloaded software in a 24 hour period. You can find more information about that here:



Isn't this the cutest Firefox icon EVAR?

In the meantime, I want to proclaim my undying love for Firefox. I'll be downloading Firefox 3 into both my home and work computers, and I'll be trying to convince our (tiny) IT staff to do likewise on all the rest of the office computers. As they are both Mozilla fans (we use Firefox and Thunderbird exclusively) convincing them to get Firefox 3 isn't the issue: I just want to see if we can be part of the world record effort.

Download Day, part 2

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?