Tonight’s Forecast:Dark* :-(

And those seven dirty words will never be the same.

1937-2008

* “Tonight’s forecast: Dark.”- George Carlin (“Al Sleet, The Hippy Dippy Weatherman”)

Firefox 3 and Extensions (Addons).

Well after about an hour of waiting on Tuesday. Firefox 3 download day finally began.

Even though RC 3 was identical to the final release, I downloaded again just to be counted.  The total for the world record was over 8 Million!

I’ve been reading various complaints from people stating that their fave extensions aren’t working. I’d love to know which ones they are using.

All of the following are working just fine for me:

• Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5
• Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.5
• Add Bookmark Here ² 3.0.20080604
• All Your Maps Are Belong To Us 0.4.1
• All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.6
• Autofill Forms 0.9.4.2
• BBCode 0.5.2.2
• Better GCal 0.2.3
• Better Gmail 2 0.5
• Better GReader 0.2.5
• Cert Viewer Plus 1.3
• Chrome List 0.2.2
• Configuration Mania 1.09.2008051801
• Console² 0.3.9.1
• Context Search 0.4.3
• CustomizeGoogle 0.72
• Deepest Sender 0.9.0
• Delicious Bookmarks 2.0.58
• DictionarySearch 3.0.0
• DOM Inspector 2.0.0
• DownloadHelper 3.0.4
• DownThemAll! 1.0.3
• dragdropupload 1.6.7
• Email This! Bookmarklet Extension 2.2.1
• Exif Viewer 1.45
• Facebook Photo Album Downloader 0.2
• Facebook Toolbar 1.2.1
• Feed Sidebar 2.2.1
• Fission 0.9.7.1
• Flashblock 1.5.6
• FlashGot 1.0.3
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 2.0.47.4
• FoxyTunes 3.0.2
• Google Notebook 1.0.0.20
• Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.1.20080605L
• Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0
• gui:config 0.3.6
• History Submenus 1.1
• It’s All Text! 0.8.5
• Key Manager 0.1.3.20080615
• Live HTTP headers 0.14
• Mahalo Share 1.3.12
• MeasureIt 0.3.8
• Minimap Sidebar Extension 0.2.6
• More Tools Menu 1.1
• Mouse Gestures Redox 2.0.0
• MR Tech Toolkit 6.0a29
• Neo Diggler 1.0.5
• No Squint 1.93.2.1
• OPIE 1.2
• OPML Support 1.5
• Paste and Go 2 0.8
• Paste Quote 0.3.3
• PDF Download 1.0.1.2
• Popup ALT Attribute 1.3.2008052801
• Prism for Firefox 0.2
• Resurrect Pages 2.0.2
• Save Link in Folder 1.4.2
• Secure Login 0.9.2.3
• Show Picture 1.2
• ShowIP 0.8.08r14b0251
• Status Buttons 3.0
• StumbleUpon 3.18
• Stylish 0.5.7
• Tab Counter 1.3
• Tab History 1.0.5
• Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6.1.080416
• Table2Clipboard 0.1.1
• TagSifter 3.0
• Toolbar Buttons 0.5.0.5
• Unhide Passwords 1.2.2
• Update Notifier 0.1.5.4
• Update Scanner 2.2.0
• URL Fixer 1.4.3
• URL Link 2.02.2
• WeatherBug 2.0.0.4
• wmlbrowser 0.7.18
• Yahoo! Toolbar 1.5.1.20080312

Firefox 3 is much improved over Firefox 2. Lots of nice new features, great integration with your OS (no need to “skin” to match) and best of all it’s much faster.

I’m pleased. Good work, Mozilla.

Today is Firefox Download Day (Sort of).

You would think that Mozilla would want to maximize exposure to their Firefox 3 “Download Day”.

But unless you’re so into Firefox that you read the Mozilla blog or the trades, you will only see mention of the date (today as of this writing).

But there is also a time. That is 10:00 AM PDT (-0800 UTC/GMT).

Now last I checked, there 24 time zones on this planet. So, for a good portion of Asia and the Pacific, “Download Day” isn’t on the 17th at all.

There were a number of comments on SpreadFirefox with regard to this.  Many were unhappy.  I can’t blame them. If Mozilla wants hype, then they blew it.

Their best bet it to hope they can set the record with just the downloads from North & South America.  I suspect others won’t even bother for another 24-48 hours (or they’ll just use the update feature in Firefox 2).

I just read mention of the 10:00AM time on the Mozilla blog, but why isn’t (wasn’t) it in prominent places on Mozilla.com?

They blew it.

BTW, as of this writing, for those that want to say “screw the contest, you can get Firefox via one of the mirror sites. You can ignore the warning message you may see on on them and click through to find your download.  As of this early morning writing, Firefox 3 is already on most (if not all) of the mirrors.

Here are a few screenshots of the places you’d expect better information.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

And…

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?from=getfirefox (a/k/a: getfirefox.com and www.mozilla.com).

You blew it, Mozilla.

Help me set a world record!

Looking for something out of the ordinary?

Wanna help set a world record?

Want a “new” kick ass web browser?

Click here

no buffalo burgers, sorry.

no buffalo burgers, sorry.

Originally uploaded by Veronica Belmont