The good news is that I’ve now done my bit for Firefox’s Download Day. I managed to nab it when I got home, just in time (I think there’s only half an hour or so left before time’s called on the record attempt).

In terms of using it, its pretty much the Beta 5 I’ve been running happily. Its a lot faster than v2.0 and definitely recommended to any other Firefox users out there.

Well,  the fairly unsurprising news from the September DC solicits is that there’s now a fill-in artist on Final Crisis.

The good news is that its Carlos Pacheco, who did great work on some of the early issues of Green Lantern.

I don’t think anyone’s particularly shocked by this.  The scuttlebut for a while has been that things were nowhere near as on track with Final Crisis as editorial would have you believe.  Despite their best-laid plans (including a planned one-month gap in the story), most people had figured that JG Jones would fall behind schedule.

However, I’m not too dissappointed in this news.  Carlos Pacheco is a great choice, and I think his style should match JG Jones’ enough to not be too jarring.   I’ve not really got anything against the odd fill-in artist if it keeps the title from being delayed, although when it gets like GLC, who had about 3 or 4 artists on one issue during the Sinestro Corps at one point, then it gets distracting.  But I don’t think it will be in this case, with just the two artists.

DC have taken late-running of their series very seriously over the last couple of years, and they’ve made great progress improving things.  As long as this nips any late-running of Final Crisis in the bud, then I don’t have a problem with it.

Really nice cover as well.  That’s a great image of the new Darkseid.

I signed up to Firefox’s Download Day, world record attempt a few weeks ago, and was pleased to get the “download it now” email last night.

I’m assuming the attempt’s going well for them, as the servers seemed to have taken a major kicking, and I was completely unable to download the new version. I’ll try again when I get in tonight though, but I imagine I’ll be pushing my luck to make it within the 24hr window. I’ve been using the release candidates pretty much exclusively for a while now, so I’m looking forward to having the final version at last (although I believe its identical to the last release candidate).

I read as well, that there’s been various other problems, with people getting corrupted downloads, or the wrong version being downloaded.

Something like this was always going to entail a fair amount of carnage. The number of people trying to download the software at the same time was always going to result in a few horror stories. I’m happy to just get the update as soon as I can, and hopefully they’ll get a high number for the record books.