I can imagine these Firefox parties would be the best party in town </sarcasm>. I can't think of ahything more awful than bunch of mouth-breathing FF fanbois all congregating together and "partying" over a web browser.

Pledge to download a browser? Come off it. Pledge to do something worthwhile if you're going to pledge to do anything

El Reg's article summed up FF nicely earlier "...a skinnable memory heap testing tool...". FF3 seems to be the same but minus the Linux 1980's skin. They've replaced the 1980's skin with one that looks like your dad trying to be hip and cool but failing badly.

For the number of people pissed off because their plugins and flash no longer work.

Way to go.

Cheeky bast**ds, the lot of you

The Spreadable Firefox page is strangely missing this vital information.

you firesux fanboys are really lame if you are going to have a party just because a browser is released ...

i mean i knew firesux users were vein but i didnt know they were as bad as mac users

i hope the record attempt fails miserably and i can get a bit of peace and quiet from the fanboy quarters

guarantee they do far more than FF could ever do every month - this is such pointless willywaving, especially when someone like adobe or ms can come along and just stick a dl counter on flash or some critical windoze patch and trounce it.

Stop fucking going on about it!

Paris - because she probably holds it for her downloadable film.

Bah!

Let some Hollywood celeb (correctly) release a personal sex tape along the same lines, and it'll smash this record.

Ubuntu FF updated yesterday (I think) and FF reports as V3.0 now, no beta's or anything.

So you can all SEE ME next Tuesday... oh.. and bring a bottle, K?

I can imagine many things worse, one of which is the mouthbreathing iTards when Jobs releases his next PoS

Paris, 'cause even she knows only Opera is better...

(well - that and there's no iTard icon)

Specifically, will it slow down my pr0n downloads?

Set the download record for Opera 9.5 instead. Released today...

www.opera.com

I hope their download servers fall over under the load, since the alternative is probably that some more important bits of the Internet will fall over under the load and spoil things for everybody else.

Sorry, but my glass is half empty on this one.

You do know that the Flash Player already gets many more downloads than 1.6 million a day?

cf. Ben Forta's blog:

http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/29/Sorry-Firefox-Download-Day-Wont-Set-Any-Records

Should be a torrent file - just to piss off Comcast.

You're all slating it, thereby giving it publicity! A lot of you will now go out on chosen boards and slag it of elsewhere, giving yet more publicity. The best thing to do if you don't want anyone to use it, is to simply ignore it.

Me, I have been using the beta's for about 2 months now and love it, far superior to the previous releases.

I don't get why so many people are being negative about this, especially on a site so full of developers. Firefox's growing competition to IE has forced M$ to wake up and start adhering a little better to W3C standards. That's a good thing don't you think?

You can bang on all you like about Opera but how much market share have they taken in the last five years? This whole "download party" concept may be lame and geeky but at least it is giving FF some publicity.

Let's hope they've made some real improvements, unlike Opera 9.50 which seems to have gone backwards. If you use Delete Private Data, all the Speed Dials waste time and bandwidth by phoning home to refresh the thumbnails.

And Opera's tabbed browsing is now much worse because all the tabs look virtually identical, there are no longer any red and blue buttons to show which is the one to close.

Yup, I know this is the wrong place to post Opera whinges, but the Reg's Kestrel story doesn't have comments enabled.

Paris, because she's not shy about going forward.

Has anyone checked?

What kind of nutjob downloads the new version of a program the day it is released?

Surely you should wait for at least SP1.

Anyone else think that "firesux" is really grasping at straws for ways of saying

"I don't like this product for no reason other than I took a dislike to it over some arbitrary thing it did differently from how I would've done, were I able, so I'll add some kind of insult to the application into its name and round it off with a nice fat, ultra-cool 'x' so that everyone knows how cool and hip I am"

Granted, it's shorter.

I use Debian Linux, Lenny -Sid (Future Debian 5)

On a lark I downloaded Firefox 3.0rc1 and installed it (took about 5 seconds to decompress after the download of the compressed file and that was it.)

It just runs and as far as the flash plug-ins were concerned, they were basically auto installed once a site like youtube was visited.

I like the bookmark editor and even though this was a release candidate... It just works, no crashes or bad things... It is pretty fast too. A little faster than Debian, Iceweasel-Firefox 2.0.0.14, but I guess that is the goal along with better security features.

It just sees all of the previous settings and I can switch back and forth between the browser versions without issues.

As far as the gloomy posters are concerned, I think it is a normal reaction to success were jealousy is what happens with those who can't deal with it, or is a normal anti fan reaction now that IE is on the slide to oblivion.

For those who are fence sitting whether to try it or not, my vote is to go for it.

I am using it about 50 percent of the time (comparison checks) and I think it is movement forward for Firefox.

Debian GNU/Linux Lenny-Sid rocks too. Should not surprise those in the know of course.

If they really want to boost downloads, they should have been strongly encouraging Addon authors to update their stuff. Most people won't upgrade until their fav addons are compatible.

its a 24 hour period it doesnt matter the timezone your in, it will be 24 hours from when they release it!

Seriously, Firefox was once cool before the fanboys started up. Now I am ashamed to use it and await IE8 to repair my sorrows.

I believe we should all support Microsofts attempt to re-monopolize the browser world and once they have we can rest assure that they wont update it for a further 10 years. Good ol' MS.

Given how slow it'll probably be to download as part of the crowd, I may well wait a couple of weeks. Plus I'll have a better feel for whether it's even worth downloading it at that point.

So Firefox users are "fanbois"? (sic). And just what should they be using instead? Internet Explorer? Or perhaps two tin cans and a piece of string?

I'd bet my last pound that the 24 hours in question is PST, as most people downloading this will be on the west coast of the USA. So if you're really that keen on helping them out to get the record, start downloading at 8am on the 18th in the UK.

As for plugins/add-ons, the really important one, AdBlock+, works with FF 3.0, that's all I needed to know!

Brilliant. What other news site could indiscriminately shoe horn in the word c*nt on their front page.

Keep it up guys

Firefox 3 RC2 is fantastic. I will certainly download the final release. Best browser available. Call me a party pooper, but I will wait a day until the download servers are quiet.

Paris, because she is foxy fiery party trouper and knows full well what a final release is.

Hey, I was using Opera back in the late 90's - I even *paid* for the full version - v4.0, I think it was.

People paying for web browsers. Times have changed, haven't they...!

I hope it is lesser of memory hog then FireFox 2. It makes IE look better !!!

the only plug in that I used that does not work on this pc (not sure about my vista desktop thats still on 2.14) is safari view

On opera, I used that for ages before changing to firefox (I even paid to get rid of the adverts) but I find that I get less weird rendering of web sites with firefox