Go Get it (Firefox 3) NOW!
You have until this 19:15 this evening (UK BST) to get Firefox 3 and help to create a world record. There are versions for Windows, Linux and Mac.
As of 08:22 this morning, the tally stood at a bandwidth burning 4,784,601 downloads!
Spread Firefox: Download Day 2008
As most of you will no by now, Firefox 3 is very close to making it’s full release. Next Tuesday in fact.
If you visit the link above, or click the badge in the left hand column, you can “pledge” to download it on the day. The Pledge Reads:
I pledge to get Firefox 3 during Download Day to set the Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours.
I’ve been using FF3 for sometime now and it’s pretty bloody good. Faster, uses less memory and (apart from the Beta 5 release that used to just disappear at the most inconvenient times!) rock solid too! It has some really neat new features such as the “intelligent” address bar, the bookmark start, tagged bookmarks and many more. [Update: I caught this newspick on Groklaw. Here’s a Field Guide to FF3 and explanations of many of the new features]
Go on, make the 17th June the biggest download day ever. We’ll be promoting it to visitors on our stand at the Surrey Expo in Camberley.
PS: One thing I noticed on the map of pledges is that France is ahead of the UK by over 10,000 pleadges! Come on England, we might not be in the Euro 2008 Football tournament, but surely we can beat the French at getting Firefox???
Remote Firefox over X/SSH
Here’s a quick tip…
I was trying to get a Firefox session running over an SSH connection between my desktop PC (Ubuntu 7.10) and the little server I’m building. The strange thing was, every time I typed firefox & at the command line prompt, it started Firefox all right; but it started a local (Ubuntu) instance of it with my local profile settings! One of the reasons I wanted to run a remote browser was so I could download files directly to that machine and so I could access some html docs on that box; as it is now headless.
A bit of Googling led me here, where the author used this command ( export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; firefox -profilemanager ) &. After a bit of experimentation, and more Googling, for my purposes it can be simplified to this:
firefox -no-remote &
This assumes Firefox version 2 and that your SSH connection was made using ssh -X uname@host
Hope this helps someone else. It got me foxed for ages initially…
