Comments on: Firefox 3

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:48:56 +0000

It may have been a bad router somewhere that took a while to be avoided. Since my DSL service gets routed through Central Florida before it hits the real backbone, I have lag issues that other people wouldn’t get involved in. I’m at the western edge of my provider’s coverage area, so I get outages that don’t affect anyone else.

The only security issue I’ve seen on FF3 is not something that would ever affect me, as I don’t visit the sites that might provoke the behavior, so I’ll probably shift to it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:20:03 +0000

Hmm. I didn’t see that from here, but I was out for a while during the evening. My domains are registered through IYD; they have been there for years, and I have them set to auto-renew and hit my credit card. I just checked, and the next renewal for the YDD is in July.

FWIW, last night, a FF3 notification appeared that the JavaScript debugger, updated for FF3, was available. I installed it but haven’t had occasion to try it yet. Presuming it works, that’s the one essential add-on for people who do AJAX development. (These days, that does not include me.) It is a good sign that they updated it so quickly.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:13:18 +0000

That I could definitely use.

Weird, but tonight, for an hour your site was acting like mine, refusing to be found.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:08:48 +0000

“I’ll wait to see if you guys crash and burn before I try it. You get sliced and diced a lot on the leading edge.”

Yep. I’m taking the chance only because I have no critical work in front of me. A couple of people out there have claimed they have hacks for FF3, but I haven’t seen any actual reports that make me quake in my boots, and to this point, in ordinary use, it’s been rock-solid. Then again, I haven’t seen any must-have new features, either. It is, though, noticeably faster than FF2.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:07:36 +0000

I read your good news earlier, Andante, and if cats and Haloscan ever stop conspiring against me I will tell you how happy I am to hear that your weeks of torture have yielded good results.

By: andante

andante — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:31:47 +0000

Your wish is my command. Errr, rather Firefox's wish is my command. In other news, I have some good news. finally.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:02:10 +0000

Yeah, I know, Steve, I’ve never had a problem with Ken Quinnell sites which are also .us. It has to be the registrar I use. There may be another jump that pushes the time out limit.

I’ll wait to see if you guys crash and burn before I try it. You get sliced and diced a lot on the leading edge.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:11:45 +0000

I downloaded it twice; once for the home computer and once for the work laptop where it is the alternate browser. Both installations went fine. The only add-on I have is Foxmarks.

I love the Spell Check feature. No more tyops!

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:29:01 +0000

Perhaps I clicked Preview instead of Post. I’ll keep an eye on it.

FWIW, it’s not all .us domains. I ran across another blog in .us the other day; there was no delay in loading it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:12:56 +0000

It’s not on another thread, so it must have gone to /device/null.

That could be a problem. Today has been pretty good, but some days the ‘Net doesn’t want to recognize my existence. I’m about ready to buy another domain just to see if I can get better response.