The Firefox 3 download day is over. Their download serves were reported to be offline for 1-2 hours (I wrote about that in previous post). Anyway they have reggistered 8,349,074 downloads in 24 hours period. There is also a very nice flash download map where you can see downloads count by the region / country. Poland goes quite nice there :)

And about Firefox 3 after one day of normal usage (browsing / web development). It is definitely faster than previous versions. gMail even with gMail Redesigned skin is working quite fast. Memory usage seems to be better too.  In 2.0 after some hours of work, FF used to take about 300-500 MB of memory (with a lot of tabs opened/closed/cycled and so on). In FF 3.0 I’ve noticed yesterday something about 200 MB, but I need to check it more closely. Favourites are better - with tags and Smart Bookmarks (such as ‘Recently bookmarked’) it is something closer to del.icio.us. Interface skin is very slick and nice. Also the new ‘remember password’ option that does not block loading page after asking for password is very very nice.

Lifehacker has prepared a list of top 10 Firefox 3 new features and Power User’s Guide to make this browser more user friendly (like by installing Old Bar extension to replace Awesome Bar that I don’t like).

The drawback of this new awesome version is fact that some extenions are not working with it, like Google Bookmarks Sync that won’t be updated for Firefox 3 :/
Anyway Firefox 3 is great, some new features are similar to those found in recently released Opera 9.50 which is great browser too.

I just have received e-mail message from spreadfirefox.com that Firefox 3 Download Day has started. The idea is to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. The problem is that download link from email leads to the page that shows ‘‘Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” error message. I hope it will be fixed soon and organizers will set the record. Firefox is worth it :)

ps. link from spreadfirefox.com show the same error message at the moment.

edit. just after my back from small meeting with my friends - everything works as it should. Go Go Firefox :)

Everybody needs a small break. Together with my girlfriend we’ve spent last weekend in Poraj (Poland) on The Sentenced guild meeting. The Sentenced is polish World of Warcraft raiding guild on The Venture Co. [EU] realm. One of the best PvE polish guilds in WoW btw ;) As actually I have almost no time to play any game, this event was simply great. I’ve met a lot of guys that I knew only from game / vent / forum - a little shocking experience sometimes ;)

We’ve had great time there but as today is Monday - it is time to get back on track :)

As today we’ve 1st April, a lot of nice jokes are flying around. Euro 2012 (organized by Poland and Ukraine) was canceled. This is probably most known and commented today’s joke. Polish president was replaced by his twin brother on some meeting. Blizzard has released Molten Core (WoW version) for consoles. Some guy has written an WoW addon that lets you to win most item rolls (guaranteed results over >90 in range 1-100). And so on and so on :)

And the day is not over yet :)

Quite interesting poster was published on Brad Abrams MSDN blog. It is a quick overview of Sliverlight 2 goodies for developers. Along all those ‘new’ tags nice thing is that Firefox and Safari is in the Browser/Browser integration list, mp3/png is in the Media Pipeline list and finally IronRuby and IronPython are in Framework Language list. It seems that Microsoft is getting more open and open and I like it very much. It seems that major Flex competitor is growing stronger.

In my secondary school time I spent a lot of time playing UFO X-Com game and it’s successor UFO Terror from the Deep. Even now I think it was one of the best games I’ve ever played - even if it is turn based. Developers mixed a lot of great ideas into this game and made it challenging but very addictive. And today accidentally I’ve found PocketPC version of this hit created by Russian company SMK Software (salutes). And it is free.

Almost 8 months after my guild has started to fight in the tower of might mage Medivh - Karazhan - on monday we have cleared the place. For so called raiding guilds, where people do play on regular basis and ‘have no life’ (quote from South Park :P ) - Karazhan is piece of cake. But for our casual guild, where ‘real life’ is more important that ‘game’ - it took some more time to master this place. We are happy anyway, as this is great nice start for our guild in 2008.

Congratulations and salutes to all who helped us to fight our way through this place.

Tags: karazhan, mmorpg, World of Warcraft, wow

Having some free time I’ve found 2 neat tools for my WM5 based Vario:

• Sidplay for Windows CE / PocketPC - as the name says, this is the player of Commodore 64 music files, known as sids (.sid extension - SID was the chip responsible mainly for sound on Commodore 64). The quality is quite nice and it is great feeling to hear Last Ninja 3 or some cult scene musics once again :). Of course there is great SidPlayerW for Windows. To get .sids, just visit HVSC - biggest and greatest Sid collection ever.
• XnView Pocket - very nice picture browser and converter for Windows Mobile. It is much more convenient to use than default file browser or TCPMP (which is great for movies anyway).

I just have back from Xmas / New Year in Ireland, and now having normal internet connection I wish you all happy new year 2008 :)

This is quite interesting article - it shows which technologies are being used on worldwide publicly-accessible most loaded sites. PHP is going strong, even if the other technologies are said to be better prepared for high load and scaling. It is definitely good for PHP :) In addition - most of the sites listed there use nice memcached library.