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Shelley on Tuesday, 2008-06-17
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I have this insanely perverse urge not to download Firefox until Wednesday. To get up in the dead of night, tip-toe to my machine and hit the download button when the date is safely the 18th; cackling in glee at the thought that I, I, am the sole hold out--the traitor, the ingrate, the rebel.

What will happen, instead, is I'll forget about it and sometime later tonight when I'm online, reading or writing or both, the automate update wizard will pop up and tell me there's a new version of Firefox. I'll click the button for the upgrade, and probably won't think twice about it.

My moment of rebellion will have passed, immersed in other things.

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Submitted by Jeff Schiller (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 09:35.

And Shelley merrily skips further down the socio-path... ;)


Submitted by Shelley on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 14:59.

Some would say I don't skip, but run like a bat out of hell.

Mostly I'm harmless.

Mostly.

Wait a sec...define harmless?


Submitted by Paul Morriss (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:37.

When I go to spreadfirefox.com I get a message from Drupal about too many connections. (And very helpfully the username and IP address of the database server.) I don't think they are going to be able to cope with that many downloads. They don't even tell you on that page (when you do eventually get through) when download day is.


Submitted by Shelley on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 15:00.

Paul, I'm not surprised that the servers are overloaded. Frankly, I'm not sure who thunk this little brain fart. I hope it works for Mozilla.


Submitted by McD (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 17:40.

To measure EQ (Emotional-Intelligence Quotient), they will typically put a cookie in front of a young child and tell them NOT to eat it until they say it's OK. Then they leave the room and start a timer. If the kid holds out for a long time then they rate a high EQ. EQ relates to higher levels of success in the real world.

Some people think this is a test of compliance (subserviance) but it can be a measure of impulse control as well.

Developing and maintaining a high EQ is a good thing in a social context. It typically makes you more
effective and a better contributor to the greater good.

How long can you hold out?

I'm waiting on FireFox out of respect for the service they offer. It's simply the best thing to rise from the ashes of the NetScape era. The benefit Microsoft gave us all is the realization that the combined resources of many generous coders is the ultimate answer to monopoly. United we stand...

It also reinforces the simple fact that standards increase the value of a technology: when they are well made and widely adopted.

How much time do you (gentle reader) spend each day looking at FireFox? Has it supassed the TV screen... yet?


Submitted by McD (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 19:01.

Who knew?

It's download day for FireFox 3... they want to set a Guinness World Record:

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/?from=sfx&uid=0&aid=2766017

I'm in.


Submitted by Phil (not verified) on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 00:47.

I'm waiting till tomorrow. I don't want the download count to be very high because I'm a big fan of Opera. I rarely use firefox. Opera 9.5 got around 4.7 million downloads in the first 5 days.