Firefox Download Day 2008

[Bounty]

I'd just like to have them smaller. Like they used to be.

You want... smaller... URLs? As in URLs that get cut off sooner? Or are you referring to something else entirely?

I suppose you can do View->Toolbars->Customize and park some buttons next to the URL bar with a separator, but why would you?

[Zablorg]

I'd just like to have them smaller. Like they used to be.

You want... smaller... URLs? As in URLs that get cut off sooner? Or are you referring to something else entirely?

I suppose you can do View->Toolbars->Customize and park some buttons next to the URL bar with a separator, but why would you?

See this?

As you can see, I'm getting like, six links in the drop bar when previously I was able to fit three times as many. And while I do appreciate it's efforts to make the link details more specific, it's really not something I need right now.

[Zixinus]

I have completed my pledge!

[Pu-239]

I'd just like to have them smaller. Like they used to be.

You want... smaller... URLs? As in URLs that get cut off sooner? Or are you referring to something else entirely?

I suppose you can do View->Toolbars->Customize and park some buttons next to the URL bar with a separator, but why would you?

See this?

As you can see, I'm getting like, six links in the drop bar when previously I was able to fit three times as many. And while I do appreciate it's efforts to make the link details more specific, it's really not something I need right now.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227 will do away w/ the awesomebar

I'd just stick w/ it; it initially annoyed me at first, but the autocomplete learns so you don't need as many entries anyway.

[Bounty]

You want... smaller... URLs? As in URLs that get cut off sooner? Or are you referring to something else entirely?

I suppose you can do View->Toolbars->Customize and park some buttons next to the URL bar with a separator, but why would you?

See this?

As you can see, I'm getting like, six links in the drop bar when previously I was able to fit three times as many. And while I do appreciate it's efforts to make the link details more specific, it's really not something I need right now.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227 will do away w/ the awesomebar

I'd just stick w/ it; it initially annoyed me at first, but the autocomplete learns so you don't need as many entries anyway.

I know how irritating it is when someone goes "OMG just use teh feature and you'll get used it it!", but in the case of the URLbar, it's true. I barely look at my bookmarks anymore; just start typing a keyword from the URL or the description and Firefox will find your link, with no need to scroll through a list.

The only thing I so far missed is a way to customize the default entries in the drop-down menu. I think those are generated based on how many times you access them, but a way to make your own list would be welcome.

[Pu-239]

Well, the bookmarks DB uses SQLite, should be easy to manually edit, or someone will just make an extension at some point.

[Alferd Packer]

Does anyone know if there's a Tabbrowser Preferences equivalent in the new FX? I've been using the new Firefox on my Ubuntu laptop, but haven't been able to duplicate that functionality, which is preventing me from upgrading everywhere else.

[Schuyler Colfax]

So apparently Windows XP isn't good enough to download it.

[Mange]

So apparently Windows XP isn't good enough to download it.

I haven't had any problems with the download, the installation or running the browser (but I do think it's somewhat slower than FF 2.0, but that's maybe just me).

[Twoyboy]

So apparently Windows XP isn't good enough to download it.

Downloaded it today on my work PC running XP and now on my home PC running Vista. Haven't had any problems other than one section of AVG not being compatible with it.

Well, it's pretty and the zoom is good, but other than that not too much different.

[Schuyler Colfax]

This is what I keep getting.

[Twoyboy]

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This is what I keep getting.

What the fuck? No idea. As I said, me and another guy both installed it on our work XP machines today, and it ran perfectly. Sorry.

[Argosh]

Downloaded & installed FF3, looking good so far.

[Schuyler Colfax]

Now that I think about it with the exception of the time that I downloaded it with the google toolbar I've always had a problem every time I downloaded Fire Fox. When I tried to get FF2 it said I didn't have enough disk space which was complete bullshit.

[Resinence]

EP, just wait for Safari4, it will be out fairly soon, the dev preview is already out. It's as fast (I won't claim faster until the official build is out, or maybe ever, considering the hostility FX fans can bring to the table) and you are probably already used to the interface. That error could be any number of things, and a nightmare to track down and fix.

I downloaded FX, but don't plan to install it. Hopefully they get their world record.

[Schuyler Colfax]

EP, just wait for Safari4, it will be out fairly soon, the dev preview is already out. It's as fast (I won't claim faster until the official build is out, or maybe ever, considering the hostility FX fans can bring to the table) and you are probably already used to the interface. That error could be any number of things, and a nightmare to track down and fix.

I downloaded FX, but don't plan to install it. Hopefully they get their world record.

I can do that. Define soon, one month, two months?

[Resinence]

You can get the dev release from apple if your a developer, it's also on pirate-bay with ~1000seeds. Or if you don't care about the interface improvements and savable web-apps etc you can just grab a webkit nightly from http://nightly.webkit.org which has the render engine improvements but uses safari3.

There is no official release date yet. And if you can manage to get firefox3 working it's currently more stable.

[Mange]

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This is what I keep getting.

I feel like a fool asking this, but did you try closing all running programs etc.?

[Braedley]

I couldn't make good on my pledge because the site was down 24 hours ago. But I will download it now.

[General Zod]

I know how irritating it is when someone goes "OMG just use teh feature and you'll get used it it!", but in the case of the URLbar, it's true. I barely look at my bookmarks anymore; just start typing a keyword from the URL or the description and Firefox will find your link, with no need to scroll through a list.

Well, bookmarks still have their uses. If you ever wind up clearing your browser cache & cookies, they're handy to have as a backup.

[DarthShady]

I downloaded it, it works great. But i expected that.

[tim31]

I downloaded it, but it did not fix my problem.

[Zixinus]

Does anyone know whether the download count is anywhere near the amount needed for the Guinness World's Record?

[Schuyler Colfax]

Does anyone know whether the download count is anywhere near the amount needed for the Guinness World's Record?

What's the record?

[Bounty]

EP, just wait for Safari4, it will be out fairly soon, the dev preview is already out. It's as fast (I won't claim faster until the official build is out, or maybe ever, considering the hostility FX fans can bring to the table) and you are probably already used to the interface. That error could be any number of things, and a nightmare to track down and fix.

I downloaded FX, but don't plan to install it. Hopefully they get their world record.

Methinks he needs to glue the wheels back onto that OS of his first. There's no way Firefox would throw up both this error, the FF2 disk space one, and the download errors unless his XP installation was fundamentally broken. No alternative browser is going to fix that.

Well, bookmarks still have their uses. If you ever wind up clearing your browser cache & cookies, they're handy to have as a backup.

I still bookmark pages, I just don't use the bookmarks menu any more. I can access everything from the URLbar now with a few keypresses, instead of digging three levels deep in a hierarchical menu.