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Subject: 7 Reasons Why Firefox 3 Download Day Sucks Tags: web, software, spi, cooperatives Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:06:57 +0100

![Download Day 2008](http://www.spreadfirefox.com/sites/all/themes/spreadfirefox_RCS/images /download-day/buttons/en-US/180x150_02.png)

  1. It's every where on TV and in print, even in Esperanto, which doesn't even have an official translation - only a third-party add-on Esperanto language pack.
  2. It was late even for the US and after most of Europe finished work AFAIK.
  3. There's no official bittorrent.
  4. There's no link to the source code from the main download page as far as I can tell. It may be mostly free software, but it feels like MozCorp don't want pesky users changing things.
  5. It brings more changes for webmasters (which is another reason I code to standards whenever possible, but I bet some of the free software web applications we use will need upgrades).
  6. It might be the "most stupid world record ever" (or at least useless) and comes just as some browsers move away from the Gecko engine.
  7. ...and all this irritation came before I've even built and installed the damn thing!

Seriously: the browser looks like a big improvement from Firefox 2, but there are so many niggles with this download day idea...