World Stats at Firefox 3 Pledge Site

[GooeyGUI]

This is cool to see what's happening in other places than just here in the states. It's all to set a new record.

Like - I wouldn't have expected N. Korea to have any pledges. :Q

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

EDIT: I changed the topic summary because this thread has turned into a discussion about browsers rather than the intended topic of a web page with cool mouse overs that reveal the world's internet connectivity. Using the magnifier you can find some of the smallest countries in the world.

Don't ask me why, but the interactive map isn't available unless you pledge. I would have thought they would have made it for use even w/o the pledge.

 

[BrokenVisage]

So far 40 is the lowest I can find.

 

[mugs]

Pledging to download something is really, really lame. And Mozilla making a big deal out of trying to break a record that their FAQ admits does not even exist yet is really, really, really lame.

Do we have to reach a specific number of downloads in order to set the record?

This is the first record attempt of its kind so there is no set number. We'd really like to outdo the number of Firefox 2 downloads on its launch day, which was 1.6 million. Let's shoot for 5 million--the sky is the limit!

So basically, no matter how many downloads they get, it'll be the new "record." And what's worse, there is apparently no indication from Guinness that they'll even put it in the book:

Will I be able to find this record on the Guinness website or in the printed version of the book?

We hope so! Guinness World Records? receives many record attempt requests and can't accommodate everyone. Let's catch their eye by working to make this a spectacular record with millions of downloads and great, zany Download Fests.

Eh... lame. But as long as it doesn't devour memory and processor time like the cookie monster devours cookies, I'll download it. Supposedly they've closed hundreds of memory leaks. Seriously. Hundreds of memory leaks. WTF.

 

[Zim Hosein]

At least one security feature won't make it into the final release of Firefox 3 on June 17, Mozilla confirmed again Thursday.

The feature, Private Browsing, would have disabled all caching, cookie downloads, history records, and form data used during the current session. In essence, you could surf the Web and leave no fingerprints.

"It basically said to the browser: I would like what I'm about to do to not be logged anywhere," said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's "human shield," aka its security user interface designer.

He described the private browsing process as this: you hit a button and everything past that point isn't logged. Then, at some point in the future, you hit the button again and it's as though what you just did never happened.

One possible use might be when someone other than the computer owner uses the browser.

"We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a lot of code," Nightingale said. "Because there are such rich interactions with Web sites and mashups and things like that, we didn't want to put in something that was half baked."

You can hear more of my interview with Nightingale on my Security Bites podcast here.

Firefox 3 won't have 'private browsing' :roll:

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: mugs
Eh... lame. But as long as it doesn't devour memory and processor time like the cookie monster devours cookies, I'll download it. Supposedly they've closed hundreds of memory leaks. Seriously. Hundreds of memory leaks. WTF.

I've never had a problem with these supposed memory leaks, even back before firefox 1.0. Weird.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

At least one security feature won't make it into the final release of Firefox 3 on June 17, Mozilla confirmed again Thursday.

The feature, Private Browsing, would have disabled all caching, cookie downloads, history records, and form data used during the current session. In essence, you could surf the Web and leave no fingerprints.

"It basically said to the browser: I would like what I'm about to do to not be logged anywhere," said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's "human shield," aka its security user interface designer.

He described the private browsing process as this: you hit a button and everything past that point isn't logged. Then, at some point in the future, you hit the button again and it's as though what you just did never happened.

One possible use might be when someone other than the computer owner uses the browser.

"We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a lot of code," Nightingale said. "Because there are such rich interactions with Web sites and mashups and things like that, we didn't want to put in something that was half baked."

You can hear more of my interview with Nightingale on my Security Bites podcast here.

Firefox 3 won't have 'private browsing' :roll:

That sounds like it would have been a pretty good feature Zim Hosein.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: mugs
Eh... lame. But as long as it doesn't devour memory and processor time like the cookie monster devours cookies, I'll download it. Supposedly they've closed hundreds of memory leaks. Seriously. Hundreds of memory leaks. WTF.

I've never had a problem with these supposed memory leaks, even back before firefox 1.0. Weird.

You say "supposed" as if it's not a well-documented and widely-known bug. Educate yourself.

Edit: Stupid FuseTalk :roll:

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

At least one security feature won't make it into the final release of Firefox 3 on June 17, Mozilla confirmed again Thursday.

The feature, Private Browsing, would have disabled all caching, cookie downloads, history records, and form data used during the current session. In essence, you could surf the Web and leave no fingerprints.

"It basically said to the browser: I would like what I'm about to do to not be logged anywhere," said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's "human shield," aka its security user interface designer.

He described the private browsing process as this: you hit a button and everything past that point isn't logged. Then, at some point in the future, you hit the button again and it's as though what you just did never happened.

One possible use might be when someone other than the computer owner uses the browser.

"We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a lot of code," Nightingale said. "Because there are such rich interactions with Web sites and mashups and things like that, we didn't want to put in something that was half baked."

You can hear more of my interview with Nightingale on my Security Bites podcast here.

Firefox 3 won't have 'private browsing' :roll:

That sounds like it would have been a pretty good feature Zim Hosein.

It would be a good feature IMO mugs, but now "they" are talking about the feature affecting too much lines of code...

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

At least one security feature won't make it into the final release of Firefox 3 on June 17, Mozilla confirmed again Thursday.

The feature, Private Browsing, would have disabled all caching, cookie downloads, history records, and form data used during the current session. In essence, you could surf the Web and leave no fingerprints.

"It basically said to the browser: I would like what I'm about to do to not be logged anywhere," said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's "human shield," aka its security user interface designer.

He described the private browsing process as this: you hit a button and everything past that point isn't logged. Then, at some point in the future, you hit the button again and it's as though what you just did never happened.

One possible use might be when someone other than the computer owner uses the browser.

"We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a lot of code," Nightingale said. "Because there are such rich interactions with Web sites and mashups and things like that, we didn't want to put in something that was half baked."

You can hear more of my interview with Nightingale on my Security Bites podcast here.

Firefox 3 won't have 'private browsing' :roll:

That sounds like it would have been a pretty good feature Zim Hosein.

It would be a good feature IMO mugs, but now "they" are talking about the feature affecting too much lines of code...

I've never worked on an application the size of Firefox Zim Hosein, but I think that in a well-designed application such a feature should affect very few lines of code. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, Zim Hosein.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: mugs
Eh... lame. But as long as it doesn't devour memory and processor time like the cookie monster devours cookies, I'll download it. Supposedly they've closed hundreds of memory leaks. Seriously. Hundreds of memory leaks. WTF.

I've never had a problem with these supposed memory leaks, even back before firefox 1.0. Weird.

You say "supposed" as if it's not a well-documented and widely-known bug. Educate yourself.

Edit: Stupid FuseTalk :roll:

I say supposed because I've not experienced it. I know others have, which is why I said it was weird that I've not had it. Not complaining, mind you

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: mugs
Eh... lame. But as long as it doesn't devour memory and processor time like the cookie monster devours cookies, I'll download it. Supposedly they've closed hundreds of memory leaks. Seriously. Hundreds of memory leaks. WTF.

I've never had a problem with these supposed memory leaks, even back before firefox 1.0. Weird.

You say "supposed" as if it's not a well-documented and widely-known bug. Educate yourself.

Edit: Stupid FuseTalk :roll:

I say supposed because I've not experienced it. I know others have, which is why I said it was weird that I've not had it. Not complaining, mind you

I experience issues mostly when I leave browser windows open for a long time (a day or more) and/or view websites that use Flash (i.e. Youtube). If you haven't noticed the memory leak, you probably don't leave Firefox running for a long time.

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

At least one security feature won't make it into the final release of Firefox 3 on June 17, Mozilla confirmed again Thursday.

The feature, Private Browsing, would have disabled all caching, cookie downloads, history records, and form data used during the current session. In essence, you could surf the Web and leave no fingerprints.

"It basically said to the browser: I would like what I'm about to do to not be logged anywhere," said Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's "human shield," aka its security user interface designer.

He described the private browsing process as this: you hit a button and everything past that point isn't logged. Then, at some point in the future, you hit the button again and it's as though what you just did never happened.

One possible use might be when someone other than the computer owner uses the browser.

"We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a lot of code," Nightingale said. "Because there are such rich interactions with Web sites and mashups and things like that, we didn't want to put in something that was half baked."

You can hear more of my interview with Nightingale on my Security Bites podcast here.

Firefox 3 won't have 'private browsing' :roll:

That sounds like it would have been a pretty good feature Zim Hosein.

It would be a good feature IMO mugs, but now "they" are talking about the feature affecting too much lines of code...

I thought there was an extension that did this. Not sure how well it worked though.

 

[mjrpes3]

Originally posted by: mugs
Pledging to download something is really, really lame. And Mozilla making a big deal out of trying to break a record that their FAQ admits does not even exist yet is really, really, really lame.

Free software using a novel marketing approach to garner attention to its newest product and hopefully gain new converts. As a fan of free software, this doesn't seem lame to me. It seems pretty cool.

 

[mjrpes3]

P.S. Poland FTW.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: mjrpes3
P.S. Poland FTW.

don't forget about poland

 

[GooeyGUI]

Originally posted by: mjrpes3

Originally posted by: mugs
Pledging to download something is really, really lame. And Mozilla making a big deal out of trying to break a record that their FAQ admits does not even exist yet is really, really, really lame.

Free software using a novel marketing approach to garner attention to its newest product and hopefully gain new converts. As a fan of free software, this doesn't seem lame to me. It seems pretty cool.

That's what I was thinking when I posted this to start with. Then the whole thing devolves into a discussion about memory leaks and features.

Sounds like ATOT to me.

 

[HannibalX]

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it?s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

It's just a fucking web browser. It shows web pages.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it?s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

It's just a fucking web browser. It shows web pages.

QFT.

In addition, I'd like to say the whole FF versus IE versus Opera and whatever else is getting really old these days. I had to have an hour-long discussion with a guy at work the other day on why I decide to use IE7 instead of FF. He acted like I shouldn't even work in the tech industry because I used IE7. The quicker we move away from IE6, then the lines between the browsers will be blurred even more, and it hopefully shouldn't matter what browser anyone uses.

 

[GooeyGUI]

Does anybody actually have a comment that is more related to the interactive map?

:light:

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: mjrpes3
P.S. Poland FTW.

don't forget about poland

You forgot about Poland!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: GooeyGUI
Does anybody actually have a comment that is more related to the interactive map?

:light:

The Gambia kind of sucks right now with only 38 pledges.