Firefox is gearing up to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours by encouraging all 175 million+ Firefox users to upgrade in a single day.

Final shipping date is estimated for mid-June. Release Candidate 2 is currently expected to be available on Wednesday, June 4th.

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There have been some reports that the “email this page – bzzster” option in Shareaholic has not been working for some users. We diagnosed the issue to Adblock Plus running with Filterset.G

This is how one user fixed the problem:

One of the filters from the Filterset.G Updater extension seemed to be causing the problem.

1. I removed the Filterset.G Updater extension
2. Then removed all subscriptions in Adblock Plus
3. Then subscribed to the EasyList (USA) list via the “Add subscription” dialog in Adblock Plus
4. Then I restarted Firefox

NOW everything works.

Adblock also recommends not using Filterset.G with Adblock Plus. Appears to be a fairly common issue with Filterset.G. More here from Adblock:

The issues with Filterset.G have been discussed several times in the forums and now it is official — I recommend Adblock Plus users to uninstall Filterset.G Updater and use some other subscription instead. There are quite a few choices, my recommendation would be to choose one of either EasyList, Cédrics Liste, dutchblock or Filter von Dr.Evil (these are also the subscriptions that are currently suggested by the “Add subscription” dialog in Adblock Plus).

If you were facing the same issue, hope this helped! Please always feel free to email us at support at bzzster.com

This release (v1.4) incorporates many user requested features, including support for the new Google Reader sharing feature – which should make a lot of people happy :)

With the latest release, Shareaholic now supports 18 sharing and bookmarking services. This release added support for:

In addition to lots of behind the scenes tweaks, we’re also pleased to have adopted the new Open Share Icon. Twitter support should now be more reliable as well.

Mozilla has updated their featured add-ons list, and Shareaholic is now on the featured list on Mozilla’s official add-ons directory! Hoooraayy!!

What does this mean for Shareaholic? More exposure, resulting in a bigger user & feedback community. According to Basil Hashem, the directory currently receives about 5 million pageviews per day with approximately 3% of the traffic to the recommended list.

None of this would be possible without your support. A BIG BIG thank you to Mozilla, and our users for supporting, using, and believing in Shareaholic.