TheChrisD - Rant Central

The launch of Firefox 3

It’s only been around 5 hours, but already the Mozilla servers seem to be getting hammered with the amount of people downloading Firefox 3. I myself, had to wait 10 minutes for it to download as it was coming at a meagre 8 kB/s.

However, I have to say I am impressed. OK, well maybe I can’t really say that, especially as I’ve been using Firefox 3 since the Beta 4 version, so I’ve been used to all the new features for quite a while. Coming back on this evening on my RC1 version installation, I tried the auto-upgrade feature, only to find it couldn’t update (although whether this was by design or down to the fact the servers were extremely busy, I’m not sure). So I had to trduge to the main Firefox page to get it.

On arrival, I was met quite happily by a fresh new look page to show off the delights of FF3. Although since I already knew of them all, I skipped straight to the download link for good old Firefox 3 for Windows/Irish. After the eventual download, which probably took about 15 minutes at a rough estimation, the first thing to wake me up like being slapped in the face by a wet fish, was the installer.

It was in Irish. Now that does go to show just how good the different language version are, if not only the program operates in your language, but every little detail of the installer is, too. And it’s even more impressive when it’s a language that you normally wouldn’t see around the net!

And now FF3 proper is installed and up and running for me. Nothing much has changed from using Beta 4/RC1 except now that it has an Irish language pack, which I now have set as the default
Hopefully the rest of you will be able to download it without many problems and help set the world record for most downloaded piece of software in 24 hours!

Now better go post this, Dún Cluaisín, Oscail Twitter i gCluaisín Nua, Athluchtaigh Leabharmarcanna Beo, Cruthaigh Leabharmharc don Leathanach that I come across during my surfing, and finally Scoir for the night!