Among numerous changes Mozilla completely refined it’s JavaScript engine, making dynamic feature rich applications (FileBuffer 4 included) significantly faster and glitch free.

Every other FireFox advantage you’re used to has been improved as well, and the very sweet package was spiced up with new and useful features such as:
- One click bookmarks
- New address/history/bookmark bar, all in one
- Visual feedback for EV SSL certificates

If you didn’t have a chance to try out FireFox this is a great chance to do so:

The launch of FireFox 3 was accompanied by a “Download Day” promotional action. Everyone who participated knows that huge expectation and interest resulted in a massive strain on Mozilla’s download mirrors, downloads had to be suspended for a period of time and throttled shortly after. While I did manage to get my copy during the spike I refrained from posting until now, you should be able to download without any limits at this time.

In order to celebrate the upcoming FileBuffer 4, hosting time limit has been removed and max file upload size has been increased to 100MB!

This means that you can now:
- Upload files up to 100MB in size
- Uploaded files never expire (unless you set any limits on them)

We hope you enjoy these changes,
FileBuffer Team

This is the logo FileBuffer 4 will be using, all coments are welcome.
The site will follow the same, dark, feature rich design.

You can also expect a lot of eyecandy, but with emphasis on usability, availability and ergonomics, site elements are positioned in a natural “reading style” matter with carefully tweaked typography.

If you have tried to contact us and did not receive a reply, please re-send your e-mail.

Last week a problem occurred with one of the blacklist servers that FileBuffer uses for spam protection, unfortunately most messages were flagged 100% positive for spam and were therefore completely rejected by our mail server, the issue has been resolved. File Abuse reports are handled by a separate system and have not been affected.

Sincere apologies,
FB Team

As mentioned, the development environment for the new FileBuffer is in place, and the progress is on schedule. The first round of beta-testers will be enrolled within a month, and I expect the site in public beta by the end of summer.

That’s not all that’s happened since I last posted though, FileBuffer was approved by The Good Net Guide, and therefore awarded the GNG logo. I would like to thank all the good people in GNG for discovering and recognizing our little corner of the Internet.

Happy downloading guys, I’ll keep you posted (honest)!

What does this mean to you?
Well already now you’ll be able to experience:
- faster downloads
- a more responsive and secure interface

… And naturally FileBuffer Exchange (FileBuffer4) after the development is complete.

Keep tuned!

How do you feel about adding the “Digg” button to the download page, as well as listing 5 top referring sites that link to the file?
Do you believe this would violate your privacy, considering that the data would be visible only on the specific download page: to the users you gave the download link to?
Would you like to be able to add your own custom comments and links instead?

We need your feedback on this, thank you!

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create and fill shared folders.

We’ll start off by creating a new folder.
Log in and click “home” on the top menu to list your folders. Now click “Create a Folder” just like on the image below:

Great! Now name your new folder and click “Create”:

Select your new folder by clicking on it’s name (clicking on folder’s name selects it, clicking on the folder icon opens the folder):

Several options appeared on the left hand menu, click on “Share Settings”:

Folders are not shared by default, click on the “Share Folder” button to turn sharing on:

Did you notice the link below the button? That’s the access link you give to other people, similar to individual files, but accessing this link lists folder’s content. You might want to open the link in new window now:

Now get back to your control panel and click on “home” on the top menu to list the folders.

Shared folders serve little purpose empty, let’s add some files to it. I’ll assume you have some files already uploaded so just access your “Uploaded Files” folder, you can click the folder icon this time as we need to view the content:

Fantastic, now click on a file’s name to select it (again, clicking on file names selects the files, clicking on the tiny file icon jumps to file edit). You noticed the extra options on the left again, click on “Move File”:

Select your newly created shared folder from the drop down list and click the “Move” button:

Fantastic! If you opened a new window or a tab during folder sharing, focus it and refresh the page (F5) to view your sahred folder!

That wasn’t so hard, was it?
Shared folders allow you to regenerate links just like normal files (the public access link changes but your folder and contents remain intact). You can turn off or on folder sharing as you wish on any folder you have, except on “Uploaded Files”, that one is always private.

I hope you enjoyed this short tutorial, thank you for using FileBuffer!

The complete service unavailability should not exceed 18 hours, thank your for understanding.

“Server will undergo a complete re-install, along with some tweaks necessary for the new software I’m developing, however all of the uploaded files will be left intact thanks to my dear colleague Filip Penezic and some clever cross-server-cross-network backing up (any user-set time limits will keep running though, and no worries about security because, as you know, files uploaded to FileBuffer are encrypted).

I’ll also have to tweak the DNS server so some of you might experience problems accessing the server after the downtime , depending on how frequently your ISPs refresh their domain lists, nothing to worry about, should any problems appear they’ll be resolved swiftly.”

Server will undergo a complete re-install, along with some tweaks necessary for the new software I’m developing, however all of the uploaded files will be left intact thanks to my dear colleague Filip Penezic and some clever cross-server-cross-network backing up (any user-set time limits will keep running though, and no worries about security because, as you know, files uploaded to FileBuffer are encrypted).

I’ll also have to tweak the DNS server so some of you might experience problems accessing the server after the downtime , depending on how frequently your ISPs refresh their domain lists, nothing to worry about, should any problems appear they’ll be resolved swiftly.

Thank you for your patience!