# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/21 "2008-06-18T10:56:58Z")
Firefox has been making me scratch my head a little lately - FF2 recently updated me - quite automatically - to a beta version, then I find FF3 beta bundled into the new release of Ubuntu Linux. This is not how I previously experienced the Open-Source world to work. It’s not uncommon for a fairly young project to exist _only_ in beta - but for a mature one, I thought beta versions - although available to anyone, were not released _generally_, but rather, to that community of interested and enthusiastic users best positioned to test and feed back on any remaining bugs and issues. Has something changed recently in the Open-Source world as a whole? or are these incidents of premature general release just exceptions? or am I just wrong about how it’s supposed to work? ---
**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, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/22 "2008-06-18T11:48:56Z")
I think beta versions of open source products have always been available to those enthusiastic enough to look for them. EIT: On re-read, I guess that was what you said. So, nothing new to add, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/23 "2008-06-18T11:52:27Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] 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. [/QUOTE] worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/24 "2008-06-18T12:09:01Z")
I’m running ubuntu 8.04 on this laptop. I update it daily, and at some point switched to Firefox 3 without even noting it. I just checked this a.m. to see if I should go download it. Can’t get more seamless than that, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229/25 "2008-06-18T12:25:11Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Nader] I’m running ubuntu 8.04 on this laptop. I update it daily, and at some point switched to Firefox 3 without even noting it. I just checked this a.m. to see if I should go download it. Can’t get more seamless than that, right? [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure it came bundled with the upgrade to 8.04. I uninstalled it and went back to 2.0 - at least for the moment. Point is, you seamlessly switched from 2.0 to 3.0 _beta_. That just shouldn’t happen automatically, IMO. I found the font rendering a bit gritty and the ‘awesome bar’ just didn’t invoke anything approaching _awe_, to me. Maybe it will grow on me (actually, I hope it can be turned off). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-please-all-visit-my-site-and-download-something-on-the-same-day/453229.md?page=1)