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Firefox 3.0.10 releasedFirefox 3.0.10 releasedPosted Apr 28, 2009 20:56 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Firefox 3.0.10 released by MattPerry Parent article: Firefox 3.0.10 released
My parents have to download them over a 28k8 modem. Small is in the eye of
the beholder :( it often takes twenty minutes or more and sometimes eats an hour. A costly hour.
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Firefox 3.0.10 released Posted Apr 29, 2009 19:22 UTC (Wed) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link]
As I mentioned in another post in this thread, the update from 3.0.9 to 3.0.10 was 1.5 MB for Windows and 199 KB for Linux. For a 28kbps modem that would be about 8 minutes for the former and one and a half minutes for the latter. If it's taking an hour for your parents to download, they're either downloading the full release and not the update or something is wrong with your their connection.
Firefox 3.0.10 released Posted Apr 29, 2009 20:13 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Oh, I'd be quite willing to believe that something was wrong (probably
something else saturating the line, but Windows being Windows it can be hard to tell what: probably a billion contending worms or something like that).
It *is* much better now than it was in the FF1 days. The real problem is
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