Yesterday, 17th June, 2008 was the Firefox Download Day. Firefox had set a goal of 5 million downloads to be able to record this as a Guiness Record.
And according to this, Mozilla’s Firefox 3 release event yesterday was an epic success. The servers logged over 8 million downloads during the 24-hour download day, and Mozilla has declared victory after exceeding its initial goal of 5 million downloads.
I personally love Firefox and use it all the time and out of those 8 million downloads, one of them was mine. 
(every bit helps!) and Firefox 3 does look good. Congratulations to Mozilla!
There is a campaign going on over at SaveTheDevelopers that focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful and complicated environment for web developers by hastening the retirement of an outdated browser.
I fully support this campaign and truly beleive that IE6 should not be used anymore as web developers (including me) spend way too much trying to get stuff working in IE6 just to cover the less than 10% of people that still use it.
Having said that, I have installed the script from the site and if you are browsing this website in IE6, you will see a little box at the top right of this page popping up every few mins to remind you to upgrade your browser.
I have been struggling with this weird browser issue for the past day or so now. If I open any website off one of the IIS servers here, it brings up the following weird error (only in Firefox).
HTTP 414 Request-URI Too Large - The size of the request header is too large. Contact your ISA server administrator. (12215)
Internet Security and Acceleration Server
The same webpage worked fine in IE. So I was puzzled for a while and searching on Google revealed that probably a hotfix is required for IIS? But then, I thought I should be getting the same error in IE as well if that was the case, so its got to do something with Firefox surely.
After a bit of asking around, it turns out that the simple resolution is to just delete the cookies from Firefox and that should do it. And after deleting my cookies, the error was gone. Looks like Firefox is sending the cookies in the header? Not sure really but I thought someone could benefit from this post.
Anyone else had the same issue ?
I am a bit late in finding this out but I just read that, on Feb 21st 2008, Firefox reached a whopping 500 million downloads. Now that really is a marvellous achievement. I remember those days (years ago) when IE was the popular browser and everyone used to code around compatibility between different versions of IE, but with browsers like Firefox around, things really have turned around. I myself have stopped using IE completely now (unless I want to test how a website looks in IE).
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