Ready, steady, get Firefox

Syndyre said:
:D

Btw, does anyone know an easy way to copy over all your extensions and settings? Can you copy your profile over directly from FF2?
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The extensions are kept in ff2's folder as far as I am aware. The bookmarks you can copy as follows: Bookmarks-organise (the back up and export links). Settings.... no idea.

As for the download count, the count is counted for every count that you download. If you download then cancel at a point in time then redownload... it counts as two downloads, since the counter is initiated each time the download is started.
 
Syndyre said:
:D

Btw, does anyone know an easy way to copy over all your extensions and settings? Can you copy your profile over directly from FF2?
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You should rather make a backup of your profile folder and then install FF3 over FF2, it will carry over all your settings. FF3 will check which extensions work with it and disable the ones that don't. When upgrades are available for the disabled ones it will let you know.

Once you have Firefox all set up just the way you like it, with all the add-ons, all your bookmarks, your passwords everything, then you back up your entire profile so you can copy it exactly as is to another computer or restore it if you have to in the same version.

Your profile is stored here...

C:/Documents and Settings/[Your Username]/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles...

Your folder name will look something like this..."k13xy5k6.default"

Everything inside there is all you need to back up....

That folder name is different on every computer. if you restore to another computer you will have to rename the folder to whatever that one is using.

But you can only restore it to the same version!
 
Garyvdh said:
You should rather make a backup of your profile folder and then install FF3 over FF2, it will carry over all your settings. FF3 will check which extensions work with it and disable the ones that don't. When upgrades are available for the disabled ones it will let you know.

Once you have Firefox all set up just the way you like it, with all the add-ons, all your bookmarks, your passwords everything, then you back up your entire profile so you can copy it exactly as is to another computer or restore it if you have to in the same version.

Your profile is stored here...

C:/Documents and Settings/[Your Username]/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles...

Your folder name will look something like this..."k13xy5k6.default"

Everything inside there is all you need to back up....

That folder name is different on every computer. if you restore to another computer you will have to rename the folder to whatever that one is using.

But you can only restore it to the same version!
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Thanks. ;)
 
Just an update. Apparently the release will occur at 10am Pacific Daylight Time, which is UTC-7, and so 7pm South African time if my maths is correct...

I guess they want to maximise the number of hours in which Americans are likely to download it.
 
Well, its the 17'th and 3:06Am and no Firefox download yet!? Did they say in what timezone the 17'th is?

Nervermind!!!

Just an update. Apparently the release will occur at 10am Pacific Daylight Time, which is UTC-7, and so 7pm South African time if my maths is correct...
 
general_koffi said:
Just an update. Apparently the release will occur at 10am Pacific Daylight Time, which is UTC-7, and so 7pm South African time if my maths is correct...

I guess they want to maximise the number of hours in which Americans are likely to download it.
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marjo said:
Well, its the 17'th and 3:06Am and no Firefox download yet!? Did they say in what timezone the 17'th is?

Nervermind!!!

Just an update. Apparently the release will occur at 10am Pacific Daylight Time, which is UTC-7, and so 7pm South African time if my maths is correct...
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Looks like it. :p
 
Well, I've got FF3RC3, IE7 and Opera for testing our stuff here.

But FF3 has the advantage of extensions over Opera, otherwise I prefer Opera. If anyone could provide adblock plus and firebug for Opera then I'd use it as my default browser (and none of this built in opera stuff, it sucks.)
 
soon as it's there i will dl it.


grrr@corperate firewall blocking websites
 
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eltherza said:
Well, I've got FF3RC3, IE7 and Opera for testing our stuff here.

But FF3 has the advantage of extensions over Opera, otherwise I prefer Opera. If anyone could provide adblock plus and firebug for Opera then I'd use it as my default browser (and none of this built in opera stuff, it sucks.)
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Yeah it is not built in, but you could use the content blocker or:
Saule said:
Adblocker: Not sure how the adblocker compares with FF.
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general_koffi said:
Just an update. Apparently the release will occur at 10am Pacific Daylight Time, which is UTC-7, and so 7pm South African time if my maths is correct...

I guess they want to maximise the number of hours in which Americans are likely to download it.
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Yes, that's why my countdown clock says. Confirmed 7 pm tonight for us.
 
Been using Firefox 3 over the weekend.

It is a great improvement over Firefox 2 in regards to speed and memory usage. If you are loading a page with tons of thumbs Firefox used to be very slow and hang your whole computer (unless you have great PC specs). No problem anymore. No need to periodically close and reopen firefox. Bookmarks (favourites) operate a lot better and now have some additional features.

RC3 has been completely stable on my system (XP) and hasn't crashed once.
 
froot said:
As for the download count, the count is counted for every count that you download. If you download then cancel at a point in time then redownload... it counts as two downloads, since the counter is initiated each time the download is started.
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Not if they count the IP's that's downloading.
 
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