Comments on: Firefox 3: Setting a world record can teach you a valuable lesson

By: emontero

emontero — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:10:25 +0000

@Mike,

Thank you very much!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:53:42 +0000

Actually there’s a beta for ff3 of firebug:
http://getfirebug.com/

and you could also edit the plugin of your interest to see if it works, I did that to All in one gestures and it works pretty good.

Just open the plugin with winzip or whatever (the plugin is a zip file) and edit the install.rdf file replacing the compatible version information for something like 3.* rezip and drag and drop to ff.

By: emontero

emontero — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:14:47 +0000

Guys,

Here’s a follow up on Slashdot:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/06/18/217205.shtml

@Dan,

I heard most developers will get 3.0-compatible versions of their add-ons within the first 1 – 2 months of the release. Hopefully, that will be the case. I can’t live without Firebug!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:02:35 +0000

The first time I heard about the attempt to set a world record I thought: Wow the must have asked Google or someone for lots of servers to handle all the requests. I was surprised went I tried several hours after the download day began, only to be greeted with an error.

I guess the underestimated their own popularity…

BTW, I think currently there’s not such a record, they are just trying to create one.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:00:26 +0000

yes! FF3 is awesome but unfortunately i was one of those users caught in the windstorm of requests and had to wait an hour or so before I was actually able to download the latest release and this was at 5PM EST!

Lovin the newest version though, now I just need all my add-ons to be supported…