Download Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gifDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comen-usCopyright 2008 Blogsmith, LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Mozilla brings Twitter, RSS, other messages to Firefox with Snowlhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/mozilla-brings-twitter-rss-other-messages-to-firefox-with-snow/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/mozilla-brings-twitter-rss-other-messages-to-firefox-with-snow/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/mozilla-brings-twitter-rss-other-messages-to-firefox-with-snow/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Snowl
Mozilla released a plugin for Firefox called Snowl yesterday that has the potential to completely change the way you use your web browser. Or it could just frustrate the heck out of you. Here's what it does: it brings messages from various sources (Twitter, RSS feeds, and eventually instant messaging services) to your browser.

The concept is interesting. Why rely on pop up notifications to let you know that you need to switch browser tabs or applications to keep up with conversations on Twitter, FriendFeed, or other locations when you can just see everything on one screen? Snowl lets you browse the web while keeping an eye on all of those conversations.

But the truth of the matter is it just sort of makes a browser screen look crowded. If you've got a 24 inch display, that might not matter. But if you've got a 15 inch, 1024 x 768 display, this is not the plugin for you. Snowl does present a few interesting ways of looking at your messages. There's an Outlook-style 3-pane view with contacts and sources on the left, headlines at the top and full text in the bottom. Or you can use a "river of news" style view that shows a newspaper-like list of updates.

Snowl is still in the early beta stages. Mozilla admits that there are a ton of known bugs, but the developers wanted to see if there was any real interest in the project before continuing. Thus the public release. What do you think? Is Snowl useful or just another distraction?
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]]>addonfirefoxmessagingmozillamozilla-labspluginsnowltwitterBrad Linder2008-08-07T10:00:00+00:00Tweak Firefox to Make the Most of Your Netbook's Screenhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/tweak-firefox-to-make-the-most-of-your-netbooks-screen/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/tweak-firefox-to-make-the-most-of-your-netbooks-screen/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/tweak-firefox-to-make-the-most-of-your-netbooks-screen/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

First Asus released the EEE (you know, that tiny little Linux laptop), now netbooks are flooding the marketplace as other makers trip over themselves to compete. I love my new MSI Wind, but let's face it: 1024x600 doesn't give you a surplus of screen real estate. Here's what I've done to maximize my viewable area in Firefox without sacrificing much needed functionality.

Step one is to reduce what you can using the options Firefox provides out-of-the-box.

First to go: the status bar. While I know there are reasons to leave it visible, it's not really necessary for the bulk of the web browsing most of us do, and those are valuable pixels we can save. Next, head over to the toolbar menu click on customize. Switching from the default large to small icons will provide another small gain.

Now let's get rid of the bookmarks toolbar.

If you're not using an online bookmarking service yet, owning a netbook is a good reason to start. By using Google bookmarks and installing the GMarks addon, you're able to sneak all your favorites into the top main navigation toolbar. After you've installed GMarks, go back to toolbar customization and drag the GMarks Toolbar star onto the bar wherever you prefer it.

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]]>eeefirefoxminimalismmsi windMsiWindnetbookumpcLee Mathews2008-08-04T15:00:00+00:00Songbird 0.7 RC1 is out: Mozilla-based music player is growing uphttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/songbird-0-7-rc1-is-out-mozilla-based-music-player-is-growing-u/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/songbird-0-7-rc1-is-out-mozilla-based-music-player-is-growing-u/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/songbird-0-7-rc1-is-out-mozilla-based-music-player-is-growing-u/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Songbird 0.7
Songbird, the music player built on Mozilla is inching a bit closer towards a 1.0 release. Last night the developers pushed Songbird 0.7 Release Candidate 1 out of the nest, and it includes a whole slew of updates including improved memory usage, UI refinements, and a new setup assistant that makes it easy to import media libraries and configure Songbird to work with an iPod or other portable media player.

Here are a few more of the changes:
  • Support for iTunes-like smart playlists
  • Optional concert calendar displays upcoming shows in your area based on the artists in your music library
  • Last.fm support allows you to scrobble tracks
  • Now uses GStreamer as the media core
  • Faster metadata scanning
If you haven't used Songbird before, here are a few others reasons you might want to check it out. First, it's kind of like having a cross-platform version of iTunes that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux but also supports multiple tabs. Second, you can use Songbird as a web browser and when you visit pages with links to MP3 files like The Hype Machine, Songbird will automatically detect the music files and bring up links for you to play those tracks.

The latest version seems much faster and more stable than earlier versions.

[via gHacks]
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]]>itunesmedia-playermusicsongbirdsongbird-0.7songbird-0.7-rc1Brad Linder2008-08-04T12:00:00+00:00PDF Download 2.0http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/pdf-download-2-0/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/pdf-download-2-0/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/pdf-download-2-0/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

PDF Download 2.0If the thought of downloading a large PDF file makes you (or your computer) shiver, check out PDF Download 2.0. This free Firefox extension gives you several options upon encountering a PDF file. First, you are presented with a warning that you have encountered a PDF file. Then you are given the choice to download it, view it as HTML, skip it or bypass using PDF Download.

Last year we looked at version 1.0. But since then, PDF Download has added at least one major new feature. Not only can you convert PDF to HTML for easier viewing and choose how and when to view your PDFs, you can now also convert a web page to a PDF document, keeping the general look and layout of the page.

PDF Download is useful because whenever you click on a PDF link, instead of just opening the link, you are given a choice on how to proceed. And some of those chices just might save you some time.

[Via download.com]
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]]>FirefoxPDFpdf-downloadChristina Clark2008-07-22T13:30:00+00:00Wikilook Defines Words in Firefox Without Leaving Your Tabhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/wikilook-defines-words-in-firefox-without-leaving-your-tab/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/wikilook-defines-words-in-firefox-without-leaving-your-tab/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/wikilook-defines-words-in-firefox-without-leaving-your-tab/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Firefox is great on its own, but we love us an addon that makes it even more powerful. Wikilook fits the bill, making it a snap to look up definitions for unfamiliar words.

Sure, you can just google a term or head over to Wiktionary and key in a search, but Wikilook will do it for you without ever leaving your current page. It's dead simple to use: hold down shift and hover over a word, wait patiently for a second or two, and the definition appears right before your eyes.

Quick links are presented for the Wikipedia match and key terms in the definition itself are also linked for you, and yes - you can even shift-hover text in the definitions if there are words in them you don't understand.

It's a great little timesaver for a 32k download.
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]]>addondefinitiondictionaryextensionfirefoxwiktionaryLee Mathews2008-07-08T13:00:00+00:00Glubble and Kidzui - good kid browsers, silly names http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/glubble-vs-kidzui-kid-browser-wars/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/glubble-vs-kidzui-kid-browser-wars/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/glubble-vs-kidzui-kid-browser-wars/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , , , , , ,

kids browsing
There is a battle for the hearts and wallets souls of our young surfing children on the interwebs. Parents are obviously concerned about the appropriateness of the world wide web being a kid's playground, so are looking for suitable controls to help them feel their children are protected online.

We looked at 2 kids browsers, Glubble and Kidzui, and gave them a test spin as well as subjected them to an unscientific kid focus group. Check out our results after the jump.

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]]>childrens browserChildrensBrowserFirefoxGlubbles vs. KidzuiGlubblesVs.Kidzuikids browserKidsBrowserKidzuiparental controlsParentalControlssafe browsingSafeBrowsingDolores Parker2008-07-07T14:00:00+00:00Mozilla Firefox breaks non-existent world record - nobody careshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/mozilla-firefox-breaks-non-existent-world-record-nobody-cares/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/mozilla-firefox-breaks-non-existent-world-record-nobody-cares/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/mozilla-firefox-breaks-non-existent-world-record-nobody-cares/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Remember, that whole Firefox download day thing that we got so amped up about? Us too.

Remember when their servers screwed the pooch for most of "Download Day"? Us too.

How about that vulnerability that affected all 8 zillion of us who downloaded version 3? Yep, we remember that too.

Now you can put all those rough memories behind and sleep easy. Today, Mozilla "officially" announced setting the record, with 8,002,530 downloads on the release day of Firefox 3. It's fair to point out that, nothing was broken here... this was a new record, hence "setting" and not "breaking".

Will you remember Mozilla set the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours on June 18th, 2008? Neither will we.

But congrats on still being #2 Firefox. Let us know when that changes and we'll jump around and party like it's 2035!
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]]>boringbrowserfirefoxguinness book of wor...GuinnessBookOfWor...mozillavulnerabilityDrew Olanoff2008-07-02T20:00:00+00:00Cybersearch Addon Puts Results in Your Awesome Barhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/cybersearch-addon-puts-results-in-your-awesome-bar/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/cybersearch-addon-puts-results-in-your-awesome-bar/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/02/cybersearch-addon-puts-results-in-your-awesome-bar/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Search results in my awesome bar? Hell yes!Firefox is already pretty amazing, but we're always looking for another add-on to make it even more kick-ass. Enter CyberSearch, an update of AwesomeSearch which adds tons of search functionality to your browser. It even displays results right in the Awesome Bar's drop-down.

Search results without Adsense ads? Oh, it's possible.

CyberSearch also lets you set up keyword or letter patterns that tell it to restrict sites to specific URLs - preface your search with 'techy' and you'll only get results from Lifehacker, CyberNetNews(go figure), and Download Squad (we had nothing to do with that, we swear!).

Since it's built on Google's API, you're still getting the same results you'd get if you went to Google first anyways. Hello, efficiency!

You can download the extension from Mozilla's repository.
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]]>add-onaddonaddonsextensionfirefoxmozillamozillafirefoxsearchLee Mathews2008-07-02T13:00:00+00:00Firefox 3 download day made possible by Windowshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/28/firefox-3-download-day-made-possible-by-windows/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/28/firefox-3-download-day-made-possible-by-windows/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/28/firefox-3-download-day-made-possible-by-windows/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

On June 17, 2008 Mozilla attempted to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a 24 hour period. According to Mozilla over 8 million downloads were recorded. Currently they are awaiting word from Guinness if they were successful.

But there was one thing we wanted to know about this number. Out of the 3 major operating systems in use today which one blazed away with the most downloads. So we decided to ask and a Mozilla spokesperson gave us the following numbers:

  • Windows 79%
  • Linux 13%
  • OS X 8%

Now the number 1 spot didn't surprise us at all since Windows leads in overall computer operating systems it's almost a given that most of the downloads would come from Windows. But what was a bit surprising was that Linux bested OS X in the numbers of downloads.

One could say that Ubuntu, which is a very popular Linux distro comes packaged with Firefox so it's only natural that more downloads would come from Linux users. But according to w3counter, OS X accounts for 4.95% of the operating systems in use while Linux is barely half of this at 2.01%

So this strikes us as odd. What would cause OS X to slip to 3rd place in the number of downloads? Do these numbers suggested that Apple users only like to use Apple apps? Or did a large group of Mac users not get invited to the download party?

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]]>firefoxlinuxos xOsXubuntuwindowsJoey Celis2008-06-28T09:00:00+00:00Firefox 3 portable out of betahttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/23/firefox-3-portable-out-of-beta/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/23/firefox-3-portable-out-of-beta/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/23/firefox-3-portable-out-of-beta/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

We've covered the beta version of Firefox 3 portable before. But since the world wide release of Firefox 3, the team over at PortableApps has upgraded the beta version to the release version of this very popular web browser

Unlike the standard Windows version of Firefox 3 that requires a standard Windows installation, the portable version can be executed in any directory, even right off a USB thumb drive. This makes it great for taking your own browser, complete with cookies and favorites, with you for use on any Windows computer. When you're done, remove the thumb drive from the host computer leaving virtually no trace of your online activities.

The portable version is a 8MB download and available now at PortableApps.com.

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]]>browserfirefoxportableJoey Celis2008-06-23T08:00:00+00:00Firefox 3 vulnerability, 8 million people affected!http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/20/firefox-3-vulnerability-8-million-people-affected/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/20/firefox-3-vulnerability-8-million-people-affected/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/20/firefox-3-vulnerability-8-million-people-affected/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Firefox 3If you were one of those 8 million people that downloaded Firefox 3 the other day be aware that Tipping Point DVLabs has announced a vulnerability in Mozilla's latest browser.

Details are unknown but in order for this exploit to work, you'll have to visit a site with the malicious code and click the infected link. Zero Day rates the severity as "High" and it effects both version 2 and 3 of the popular internet browser. Mozilla has acknowledged the security issue and should have a patch issued in its 3.0.1 release shortly.

With the amount of beta testing that's been done on Firefox 3 it makes you wonder why something like this slipped by?

In the mean time, be careful of where you click and make sure Firefox is set to auto update.
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]]>browserfirefoxmozillasecurityJoey Celis2008-06-20T13:00:00+00:00Feedly - a Firefox start page on steroidshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/19/feedly-a-firefox-start-page-on-steroids/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/19/feedly-a-firefox-start-page-on-steroids/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/19/feedly-a-firefox-start-page-on-steroids/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , , , ,

FeedlyIt's been a while since we've seen a compelling new browser start page. There was a real flurry of start pages a year or two ago when the likes of Google Personalized Start Page (now iGoogle), NetVibes, Pageflakes, and a myriad of other copycat sites launched. Strangely, even with such an amazing variety of start pages to choose from, we've never found any of them to be particularly compelling.

Then we were introduced to Feedly. Feedly is a start page that only works in Firefox, because it requires a Firefox browser extension to run. It's actually a locally hosted page that goes out and grabs information feed reader sites and social networks that you use, and presents it to you in a friendly magazine style layout.

Feedly can go through your Firefox bookmarks, as well as your My Yahoo! page, NetVibes, Bloglines, Twitter, FriendFeed, Yahoo! Mail, and Gmail accounts to find relevant information to present to you. If we can offer one tip, it would be to choose carefully. When setting up our page, we checked every possible option, and ended up with far too many feeds, and too many feeds that we had lost interest in that were still in some account somewhere that Feedly found.

Feedly also has a very tight integration with Google Reader, and anything that you read in Feedly will be marked as read in Google Reader, and vice versa. This is cool, but it's also dangerous, since and feeds that you add to Feedly (or that it finds) are automatically added to your Google Reader account. So again, choose carefully what feeds you want to be seeing in Feedly, as they will affect your Google Reader account.

But once it's all set up, Feedly is a very useful and elegantly done start page - so much so, that we haven't been compelled to remove it. And since no other start page has captured our interest, that's certainly something.

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]]>bloglinesFeedlyfriendfeedgmailgoogle-readernetvibesstart-pagetwitteryahoo-mailJason Clarke2008-06-19T14:00:00+00:00What to expect from Mozilla's mobile Firefox web browserhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/what-to-expect-from-mozillas-mobile-firefox-web-browser/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/what-to-expect-from-mozillas-mobile-firefox-web-browser/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/what-to-expect-from-mozillas-mobile-firefox-web-browser/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , ,

Fennec tabs
Now that Firefox 3 has finally shipped, the developers at Mozilla are starting to make time for other projects. Don't get us wrong, those busy little bees are already working on Firefox 3.1, but they're also working on something entirely new: a mobile web browser.

The mobile version of Firefox, (currently codenamed Fennec -- a final name hasn't been picked yet), will use the same rendering engine as Firefox 3. In other words, any web page you can view with the desktop browser will be usable on a mobile device. That includes AJAX-heavy web applications. But nobody's pretending that you can just run Firefox 3 on a cellphone without making any changes. After all, mobile devices have small screens, slow processors, low amounts of memory, and often rely on relatively slow internet connections.

Last week we showed you a first look at a concept interface that might make its way into the final product. But it might not. So we decided to speak with Jay Sullivan, VP of Mobile for Mozilla. He gave us a run down of what's in store for Fennec, including what types of devices will be supported and when you'll be able to try the browser out for yourself.

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]]>browsercellphonefennecfirefoxmobile-phonetweet-thisBrad Linder2008-06-18T18:00:00+00:00Download Day: How did Firefox 3 do?http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/download-day-how-did-firefox-3-do/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/download-day-how-did-firefox-3-do/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/download-day-how-did-firefox-3-do/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Download Day
This morning it looked like Mozilla was on track to set a world record by serving up 5 to 7 million downloads of Firefox 3 within 24 hours of the web browser's release. But by day's end, (well, 24 hour's end anyway), you all smashed that number and downloaded Firefox 3 over 8 million times.

Mozilla is still waiting to get confirmation from the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records before proclaiming the official number, but Mozilla Links pegs the number at 8,290,908, give or take a few. And NetApplications says that Firefox 3 went from less than 1% of the browser market this morning to almost 3% in a matter of 13 hours.

No matter what, Mozilla will have set a world record though -- since they're competing in a brand new category.
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]]>download-dayfirefoxfirefox-3mozillaBrad Linder2008-06-18T16:00:00+00:00United States loves Firefox 3, Turkmenistan, not so muchhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/united-states-loves-firefox-3-turkmenistan-not-so-much/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/united-states-loves-firefox-3-turkmenistan-not-so-much/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/18/united-states-loves-firefox-3-turkmenistan-not-so-much/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Turkmenistan 7
Mozilla's attempt to break a world record by getting as many people to download Firefox 3 in a 24 hour period as possible got off to a bumpy start. But almost a day later, the Mozilla servers are humming along and sending out copies of the company's latest browser to every corner of the globe. Wait, a globe is round. Nevermind.

Anyway, as of this morning, Firefox 3 had been downloaded over 6 million times, with more than 2 million downloads coming from the US. Mozilla has set up a nifty little page where you can track downloads by region. And all we can say is Turkmenistan had better step up its game. Seriously, 7 downloads? There have been more downloads from Greenland. We didn't even realize that people lived in Greenland.

Of course population size, poverty levels, and access to computers all come into play, which is why much of Africa is shaded in blue on the map (meaning most countries have had less than 1000 downloads) while more developed nations like the US, Canada, Spain, the UK, France, Germany, China, Russia, and India are colored in orange or red to show that 50,000 or more downloads have come from those locations.

The world record attempt concludes this afternoon at 11:16am Pacific, 2:16pm Eastern. Anyone want to take a stab at what the final number will be? Keep in mind, Mozilla's already secured a world record, since this is a new category for the Guinness Book of World Records.

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]]>download-dayfirefoxfirefox-3world-recordBrad Linder2008-06-18T09:00:00+00:00Firefox? Who's that? Opera says 4.7 million have downloaded version 9.5http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-whos-that-opera-says-4-7-million-have-downloaded-ve/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-whos-that-opera-says-4-7-million-have-downloaded-ve/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-whos-that-opera-says-4-7-million-have-downloaded-ve/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

Browser WarsAre the oldschool browser wars starting up again? It sure seems like it.

Flock has a preview of their version 2 out, Firefox launched version 3 today, and Opera launched version 9.5 on June 12th.

Who's missing from this uber release party? Oh, that would be Microsoft's Internet Explorer...the browser with the #1 market share. After their less than stellar (and way less than standards compliant) version 7, Microsoft better come up with some EPIC for Internet Explorer 8.

Opera as you know is focused on security, speed, and mobile.

The sometimes over the top Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner stressed that Opera 9.5's most innovative and most important feature is the cross-link between your desktop and mobile devices. A feature that other browsers haven't even bothered to start playing with yet.

Will Opera's mobile first, desktop second strategy work? We shall see.

4.7 million downloads in 5 days is impressive, but can Firefox surpass that in a single day? Not if they can't keep their own site online.

Stay tuned!
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]]>browsersfirefoxflockinternet explorerInternetExplorermicrosoftmozillaoperaDrew Olanoff2008-06-17T15:30:00+00:00Download Day: The perils of shooting for a world recordhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/download-day-the-perils-of-shooting-for-a-world-record/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/download-day-the-perils-of-shooting-for-a-world-record/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/download-day-the-perils-of-shooting-for-a-world-record/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

Firefox down
So you may have heard that Mozilla is hoping to set a world record for the most software downloads in a single day today. The company has been hyping today as "Download Day" for about a week. But a more apt name might be "Down Day." That's because GetFirefox.com is down. As in dead, kaput, service unavailable.

This probably shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but if you encourage millions of users to download your software on the same day, your servers are going to take a hammering. But it appears that even Mozilla had no idea how many people would be trying to download Firefox 3 today.

There's a good chance that you may get through if you keep hitting refresh. And there's a good chance that the company will manage to break the world record if it ever gets the servers back up. But you know what? If you don't really care about setting a world record, Firefox 3 RC 3 is pretty much identical to Firefox 3 final. So if you're already running RC2 or RC3, there's no need to kill yourself trying to update your browser today. Tomorrow, next week, or even next month will probably be soon enough.

In the meantime, if you've got your heart set on downloading a next-generation browser, you can always take Opera 9.5 for a spin. That company's servers are holding up just fine.

Update: Some users are reporting success with these download links. Windows, Mac, Linux

Update 2: It looks like the site is back up, but incredibly slow. Like dialup slow.
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]]>download-dayfirefoxfirefox-3getfirefoxoperaweb-browsersworld-recordBrad Linder2008-06-17T14:00:00+00:00Firefox 3 launches today; Five reasons you can't live without ithttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-launches-today-five-reasons-you-cant-live-without-it/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-launches-today-five-reasons-you-cant-live-without-it/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-launches-today-five-reasons-you-cant-live-without-it/#commentsFiled under: ,


After a long wait, version 3 of the popular Firefox browser is officially available today -- get yours here. It's likely the most anticipated Firefox release ever, poised to break a world record for the most downloads in a single day but, does it live up to its lofty expectations?

Frankly, without the browser in widespread circulation it's hard judge it an unmitigated success. Mozilla's new baby contains a claimed 15,000 improvements. With a list that long, there are bound to be a few new features you'll love, a few you'll hate -- and -- maybe a few you'll wonder how you ever lived without.

After putting the betas through their paces and having a nice long chat with Mike Beltzner -- one of the user experience gurus from Mozilla -- here are five of our favorite things about the newest member of the Firefox family.

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]]>download dayDownloadDayFirefox 3Firefox3MozillanewhotnessGrant Robertson2008-06-17T13:00:00+00:00Firefox shoots for world record, ladies and gents...start your bandwidth!http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-shoots-for-world-record-ladies-and-gents-start-your-b/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-shoots-for-world-record-ladies-and-gents-start-your-b/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-shoots-for-world-record-ladies-and-gents-start-your-b/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

Firefox Download DayFirefox Download DayAs you know, Firefox is releasing their version 3 today, and that's not all...Firefox wants to break the Guinness record for software downloads in a 24 hour period.

1.5 Million people have said "YES I WILL DOWNLOAD!", you can be one of them and a part of a world record.

So download away! (Starting at 10am PT and 1pm ET)

Still on the fence? You can check a pretty long list of all of the things updated in this version. It's not about flash and whizbang features, it's more about stability, speed, and security. The "3 S's" that we liked to hear about from a company like Firefox that is growing up.

Give it a shot, be a part of history! Tell us what you think about Firefox 3.
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]]>browserdownload dayDownloadDayfirefoxguinness book of wor...GuinnessBookOfWor...Drew Olanoff2008-06-17T09:30:00+00:00Grab and Drag: scroll in Firefox like an iPhone wielderhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/16/grab-and-drag-scroll-in-firefox-like-an-iphone-wielder/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/16/grab-and-drag-scroll-in-firefox-like-an-iphone-wielder/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/16/grab-and-drag-scroll-in-firefox-like-an-iphone-wielder/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

grab and drag in firefox
Grab and Drag is a Firefox extension that can turn your mouse icon into a little hand, enabling you to scroll up, down, and side-to-side much like you would with the little hand in Adobe Reader.

In the end, it makes Firefox scroll like the iPhone browser, even allowing for one-time flicks that can send the page conveniently scrolling with momentum in any direction. Best of all, Grab and Drag is free, so if you're curious, give it a go.

Overall, we're pretty pleased with it, but it's not perfect. Grab and Drag really messes with Blogsmith, our blogging platform, so getting the first half of this post together was really funky until we shut it off. We're sure the program would mess with other advanced web sites too, but it can be conveniently turned off via the hand icon in the toolbar if necessary.

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]]>dragextensionfirefoxgrabDanny Mendez2008-06-16T22:00:00+00:00