firefox day

August 2, 2006 3:36 AM

It's Firefox Day!
posted by reklaw (40 comments total)

The title of the website is 'Fire Fox Day - July 15th 2006'.

Carry on.
posted by slimepuppy at 3:45 AM on August 2, 2006

When the first rumors began to filter out of the Soviet Union some three years ago, our theoretical weapons strategists stood before NATO command to explain - with much confidence - that it would take the Soviets a minimum of ten years to develop a Mach Five aircraft with thought-controlled weapons systems. I stand before you today to explain - with much regret - that we were wrong.
posted by Smart Dalek at 3:47 AM on August 2, 2006

The title of the website is 'Fire Fox Day - July 15th 2006'.

Um.

So it is.

Make that "my Firefox told me it was Firefox Day -- two weeks too late!" So, yay Firefox.
posted by reklaw at 3:49 AM on August 2, 2006

Also goes to show that I don't even know what the date is any more.
posted by reklaw at 3:49 AM on August 2, 2006

Smart Dalek, don't say anything. Your words would be useless, maybe even insulting. Just fly the damn plane.
posted by slimepuppy at 3:55 AM on August 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

One of the options to can verb your friends with when you tell them about Firfox is "set free." X "set free" Y by telling him/her about Firefox.

This is a browser, right?
posted by quite unimportant at 4:13 AM on August 2, 2006

When's there going to be a global "we've got Firefox working well on a Mac" day? Because then I'd be interested.
posted by TheDonF at 4:13 AM on August 2, 2006

Greetings from The Future!

Here is a source for baseball and other sports scores for the last two weeks. Use them wisely.

Now make like a tree, and get out of here!
posted by robocop is bleeding at 4:35 AM on August 2, 2006

When's there going to be a global "we've got Firefox working well on a Mac" day? Because then I'd be interested.

Damn straight - Firefox/Mac is hands-down the worst fucking app I've ever had to use, Lotus Notes included. Dear Mozilla types - please make the pain stop.
posted by influx at 4:36 AM on August 2, 2006

Any "friend" who gives my e-mail address to a third party without permission may no longer find me as friendly.
posted by D.C. at 5:00 AM on August 2, 2006

Nothing could possibly be worse than Lotus Notes !
posted by rfs at 5:17 AM on August 2, 2006

It's Pepsi Blue day!

And yes, as an ex-Lotus Domino developer, Notes does indeed suck the sweat from my arse.
posted by bouncebounce at 5:25 AM on August 2, 2006

Are the Firefox people planning any speed and usability upgrades for 2.0 for the Mac version? Cuz if they aren't, I'll stick with Omniweb. Even at US$30, it's worth the money-hit -- far better in the speed and stability department.
posted by Gordion Knott at 5:32 AM on August 2, 2006

i concur, down with lotus notes!
posted by kev23f at 5:33 AM on August 2, 2006

IT'S LOLIFOX TIME
posted by brownpau at 5:38 AM on August 2, 2006

Uh, brownpau, tell me I didn't just go to a bizarre lolita/anime inspired mozilla browser site...
posted by slimepuppy at 5:40 AM on August 2, 2006

"Do you ever have deja vu Mrs. Lancaster?"

"I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen." ;)
posted by nthdegx at 6:18 AM on August 2, 2006

Think in Russian.

X 'set free' Y by telling him/her about Firefox.
Isn't that how Lincoln freed the slaves?

Gordion Knott, you might try Camino.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:19 AM on August 2, 2006

I've heard tell that Firefox is going to get all cocoa-ed or carbon-ed or whatever-the-helled with Beta 3, which should give us some significant improvements in performance for OS X.

Of course, I can't find the article where I read this, so take it with a grain of salt.

And seriously, that seems like a long time to wait.
posted by kbanas at 6:23 AM on August 2, 2006

This firefox; it vibrates? it's a cult?

You’ve become part of the movement on which Firefox Scientology relies – a community that is restoring balance to the Web world.

Starting on July 15, the day that the Mozilla Hubbard Foundation was created, we ask that you tell just one person who doesn’t use Firefox Dianetics why you think they should, why you do.

CHOOSE JUST ONE PERSON. (For now...)
posted by Hildegarde at 6:36 AM on August 2, 2006

Nothing could possibly be worse than Lotus Notes !
True, but it's even worse when you run notes through Wine. That was IBM's internal solution for years for employees running Linux on their desktops. You think native Notes it slow, try running it through emulation (yes I know that Wine's not really emulation).
posted by octothorpe at 6:44 AM on August 2, 2006

So I clicked on the Firefox day link, and Firefox crashed. TRUE STORY.

posted by Dr-Baa at 6:50 AM on August 2, 2006

Are the Firefox people planning any speed and usability upgrades for 2.0 for the Mac version?

I've used the 2.0 alphas and beta on Mac, and it's much faster.
posted by infidelpants at 6:58 AM on August 2, 2006

I gotta go with D.C. on this one.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/53496#1388933
posted by humboldt32 at 7:36 AM on August 2, 2006

[insert Firefox logo here photoshoppedenhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® into the Ceiling Cat ceiling.]

I'm too lazy to actually do it.
posted by dmd at 7:40 AM on August 2, 2006

firefox sux - changing font sizez and shitz - that blowz
posted by parmanparman at 7:46 AM on August 2, 2006

Dr-Baa: me too. Grr.
posted by jewzilla at 8:44 AM on August 2, 2006

I'm glad they didn't make the announcement in a PDF, because opening it would have crashed my &%*&$@! browser, just as happens every time I open a PDF on Firefox. That said, Firefox still kicks IE's ass.
posted by blucevalo at 8:45 AM on August 2, 2006

I'll choose Opera thanks. Doesn't have Firefox's really irritating pretensions. Most standards compliant browser, first to do tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, mouse-over previewing on tabs, etc.
posted by pots at 8:46 AM on August 2, 2006

But if you give them someone else's email and name, and the someone downloads Firefox, then both of your names will appear in FF 2.0!! Along with about twenty million other names. And smaller than this.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 9:00 AM on August 2, 2006

Pots, I thought Netscape got to the tabbed browsing first? Or was I not paying enough attention to Opera at the time?
posted by slimepuppy at 9:09 AM on August 2, 2006

I find the Opera crowd with their whinging for recognition to be just as irritating as the Mozilla crowd, neither being nearly as irritating as the rabid IE boosters who should qualify for some kind of intarweb Darwin award. Of course, the pinnacle of irritation has to Lotus Notes--which I was just introduced to about a month ago. Completely suckular the way it insists on crappily handling all clicked hyperlinks instead of passing them off to the default system browser.

But I signed my sock puppet up so both of us will be memorialized in Firefox2.0. This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people.
posted by Fezboy! at 9:15 AM on August 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

I already have my name in the phone book. I'm somebody!
posted by Kirth Gerson at 9:19 AM on August 2, 2006

Firefox crashed

You forgot to think in Russian.
posted by CynicalKnight at 10:10 AM on August 2, 2006

lol, CynicalKnight, well done!

Firefox blows. I use Opera, since it now only browses teh intrarweb well, but it also cleans, cooks, and comes with a kitchen sink.
posted by nlindstrom at 11:42 AM on August 2, 2006

Sorry, I don't know what this is about. I don't use the Internet. I don't even have a computer.
posted by sdrawkcab at 4:44 PM on August 2, 2006

For those asking for a better FF on the mac, try Camino.

I stick with Safari for its speed, and FF for development because its extensions (Firebug!) for ajax development cannot be beat.
posted by rsanheim at 10:45 PM on August 2, 2006

For you Mac users complaining about the OSX version of Firefox, do a search for Deerpark.app. It's a recompiled version which includes the aqua widget set. It's much better than the official version.
posted by salmacis at 1:13 AM on August 3, 2006

What's the problem with Firefox on the Mac? The only annoyance I've encountered is that input fields don't support the emacs-ish key shortcuts. (That, and the PgUp/PgDown behavior doesn't work without tweaking the system accessibility settings.) Other than that, it feels faster and more featureful than Safari. OTOH, I'm only a few days into using Firefox as my primary browser, so perhaps I just haven't encountered these problems.
posted by bjrubble at 10:52 AM on August 3, 2006

bjrubble: One issue is that FF doesn't use Cocoa for its look and feel, so it doesn't look anything like standard mac apps. It also doesn't integrate with keychain and some of the other nice mac services.

FF definitely has more features and of course any extension you can think of, but Safari is much faster for rendering complex pages and just feels more responsive.
posted by rsanheim at 10:51 PM on August 3, 2006