# World - Please all visit my site and download something on the same day. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229 "2008-06-17T17:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/1 "2008-06-17T17:42:07Z")
Am I being naive, or was it a bit silly of Firefox to invite the whole world to all download their new browser from their website on ONE day. Perhaps predictably the page isn’t loading. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/2 "2008-06-17T17:45:15Z")
Hey it loaded for me. Took about 15 minutes, though. Being on the SDMB makes me barely notice that, though… Worst part is FF3 isn’t even up yet after that wait. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/3 "2008-06-17T17:49:31Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] Hey it loaded for me. Took about 15 minutes, though. Being on the SDMB makes me barely notice that, though… Worst part is FF3 isn’t even up yet after that wait. [/QUOTE] That’s why I’m trying to get there (to see if it’s up yet) thanks for letting me know 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/4 "2008-06-17T18:02:16Z")
Hopefully FF3 will properly render the icons for all my bookmarks toolbar bookmarks. And I wonder if it will allow me to show my ff bookmarks on the start bar like I can with IE ‘links’ ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/5 "2008-06-17T18:07:00Z")
Have you tried the FF3 Release Candidates? I’m using that now, have had few problems. My bookmarks toolbar icons look properly rendered, but I don’t recall FF2 having any issue with them. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/6 "2008-06-17T18:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] Have you tried the FF3 Release Candidates? I’m using that now, have had few problems. My bookmarks toolbar icons look properly rendered, but I don’t recall FF2 having any issue with them. [/QUOTE] It’s probably just an issue with my setup then. I’m actually fairly new to FF. I had it yonks ago, but I was put off by how long it took to startup. Then more recently I was told it starts up pretty quick so I donwloaded it (FF2) As today is the 17th I’ll (hopefully) get hold of the final release instead of any beta releases. I tend to shy away from betas unless I really want something immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/7 "2008-06-17T18:47:41Z")
Technically RCs are not betas and should be more stable, but your point still stands, no reason not to simply wait until the final release is out, hopefully later today. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/8 "2008-06-17T18:54:11Z")
Now running Firefox 3! [http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US](http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/9 "2008-06-17T19:21:01Z")
Alright, I’m up and running with FIrefox 3…not too keen on the new look, but maybe it will grow on me. But one thing I do NOT like is what happens when I start to type in a URL in the address bar. In FF2, I’d just get a little list of previously visited URLs, but now the list is dumb-looking. Rather than just a nice plain list, in black text, it has the name of the webpage, with an icon next to it, and the actual URL listed below it in blue, all the while taking up like five times the space. Anyone figure out yet how to turn that off and go back to the way it was? ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/10 "2008-06-17T22:28:08Z")
I’m using littlefox as my theme. It’s very minimal. Oh! Wait, do you mean the Awesome Bar? Why would you want to get rid of the Awesome Bar? I mean, I suppose you can, but that’s the new big thing. Give it a try. > **[A Little Something Awesome about Firefox 3 | The Mozilla Blog](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-little-something-awesome-about-firefox-3/)** > > Deb Richardson, author of the about:mozilla newsletter, wrote one of the better explanations I’ve seen on the “AwesomeBar,” Firefox 3R Notice it checks your shortcuts and a few other things. For example, if I knew I bought something at Yahoo, I can type in Shopping, and it’ll show me URLs to shopping carts I hit. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/11 "2008-06-17T22:59:07Z")
Mother fuck!!! All my bookmarks are gone. Eat shit and die Firefox, I hope Microsoft buys your ass out. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/12 "2008-06-17T23:13:24Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] I’m using littlefox as my theme. It’s very minimal. Oh! Wait, do you mean the Awesome Bar? Why would you want to get rid of the Awesome Bar? I mean, I suppose you can, but that’s the new big thing. Give it a try. > **[A Little Something Awesome about Firefox 3 | The Mozilla Blog](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-little-something-awesome-about-firefox-3/)** > > Deb Richardson, author of the about:mozilla newsletter, wrote one of the better explanations I’ve seen on the “AwesomeBar,” Firefox 3R Notice it checks your shortcuts and a few other things. For example, if I knew I bought something at Yahoo, I can type in Shopping, and it’ll show me URLs to shopping carts I hit. [/QUOTE] Nice concept. I a little annoying if you don’t want to be reminded about the porn you’ve visited every time you use it. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/13 "2008-06-17T23:33:20Z")
FYI - I started a [Firefox 3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=472171) thread for new users. The title of this one is probably going to be overlooked by most people and it’s not really about the browser but about the wisdom of a national “downoad day”. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/14 "2008-06-17T23:36:39Z")
Just went there and had no problems. YMMV. _Posted w/FF3_ ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/15 "2008-06-18T00:00:19Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] Mother fuck!!! All my bookmarks are gone. Eat shit and die Firefox, I hope Microsoft buys your ass out. [/QUOTE] Wait a sec.. It doesn’t keep the bookmarks? How do I back up my FF bookmarks? I would cry if I lost my 1000s of organized bookmarks. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/16 "2008-06-18T00:05:03Z")
In FF2, ‘Export’ your bookmarks from the Bookmark Organiser or Manager or whatever they call it. They’ll appear as an HTML file somewhere named _bookmarks.html_. You can then import them into FF3. Silly me. I should have done that. I lost a few of the newer ones. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/17 "2008-06-18T00:19:27Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Wait a sec.. It doesn’t keep the bookmarks? How do I back up my FF bookmarks? I would cry if I lost my 1000s of organized bookmarks. [/QUOTE] It did for me. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/18 "2008-06-18T00:22:12Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Wait a sec.. It doesn’t keep the bookmarks? How do I back up my FF bookmarks? I would cry if I lost my 1000s of organized bookmarks. [/QUOTE] As you can see in my other thread I think it’s confused because I tried out FF 3 Beta at one point and then went back to FF 2. It never offers the option to import FF 2 bookmarks if you’ve ever tested FF 3 apparently. Luckily I was able to recover them since the FF 2 settings are stored elsewhere. Dumb ass implementation though. They have to know that thousands of people have been running a version of FF 3 since they’ve been so eager to get people stress testing it. Still, back the fuckers up. ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/19 "2008-06-18T08:32:28Z")
I downloaded because of the record, but will wait until my FF 3 beta updates itself. Strangely, it did that earlier today, the status bar now reads “Gran Paradiso” and the about info says this is still a beta. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/20 "2008-06-18T10:47:20Z")
Search for bookmarks.html if your bookmarks file is missing. And do back it up on occasion, okay? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229.md?page=2)