Comments on: 3 hours until download day starts – use the mirrors please! http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2008/06/3-hours-until-download-day-starts-use-the-mirrors-please/ I love you. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Ant Bryan http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2008/06/3-hours-until-download-day-starts-use-the-mirrors-please/comment-page-1/#comment-131969 Ant Bryan Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:25:17 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=387#comment-131969 You could use Metalinks to put the mirror listings (& other info like checksums) into a machine readable file. DownThemAll! addon already supports it, & there's even a patch for Bouncer. :) You could use Metalinks to put the mirror listings (& other info like checksums) into a machine readable file.

DownThemAll! addon already supports it, & there’s even a patch for Bouncer. :)

]]> By: raindog469 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2008/06/3-hours-until-download-day-starts-use-the-mirrors-please/comment-page-1/#comment-131826 raindog469 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:53:33 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=387#comment-131826 As of 13:45 Eastern US time, the link emailed to me in Mozilla's download day alert (linked above) still shows Firefox 2 and offers a test drive of Firefox 3 which is a release candidate. I suspected a caching proxy at my ISP and so added some randomly generated parameters to the URL, but with the same result. Unsurprisingly, spreadfirefox.com seems to be down altogether as I type this. As of 13:45 Eastern US time, the link emailed to me in Mozilla’s download day alert (linked above) still shows Firefox 2 and offers a test drive of Firefox 3 which is a release candidate. I suspected a caching proxy at my ISP and so added some randomly generated parameters to the URL, but with the same result.

Unsurprisingly, spreadfirefox.com seems to be down altogether as I type this.

]]> By: Linux with Doubts :: Firefox 3 Release http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2008/06/3-hours-until-download-day-starts-use-the-mirrors-please/comment-page-1/#comment-131754 Linux with Doubts :: Firefox 3 Release Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:43:48 +0000 http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=387#comment-131754 [...] took a note from Chris Blizzard and cheated by downloading already by typing out the full URL into a mirror (no, I didn’t use [...] [...] took a note from Chris Blizzard and cheated by downloading already by typing out the full URL into a mirror (no, I didn’t use [...]

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