Mozilla is about to release Firefox 3 to the public and users all over the World are getting ready to set a Guinness Book World Record this month - date to be determined - by having the most downloads in a 24-hour period known as “Download Day 2008.” There is a lot of circulation about the download day in spreadfirefox forum. Release Candidate 2 is already available for download testing in more than 45 languages.
Update: Just saw on Techmeme that Mozilla just set the date: Firefox 3 is coming on June 13 June 17. I’ll follow up with another post later today.
There are many improvements with this release compared to previous versions. For instance, FireFox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.0 Web rendering platform that has been in development for the past 33 months. It also has more than 14,000 updates and improvements added in the Release Notes. To run Firefox 3 your system must meet some Requirements.
Once it was downloaded to my Dell Inspiron 1720 system I could see a vast improvement in speed compared to previous versions. The first thought that crossed my mind was, “Hey, Mozilla must have outdone themselves on this version.” I soon realized that I was correct in my assumption and the final version was still being tweaked for release. After playing around for a while I was very pleased with its performance and capabilities. There are way too many additions to mention here (more posts to come, though).
I also have a Dell 1420N Ubuntu system that has the latest version of Ubuntu installed which Firefox 3 beta version is the built-in browser for “Hardy Heron” 8.04. It also works extremely well with this Linux Platform.
Like any new platform, there are some bugs and known issues with this release that will need to be worked out. Mozilla has a site to report any bugs that you may have during the testing phases.
While Firefox 3 isn’t for everyone, I for one think it is an extremely worthy browser and I am looking forward to using it in my day-to-day Internet browsing. I am also looking forward to posting more Firefox info here on Your Blog.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Definately keep us up to date.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I have posted and encouraged all my other friends to post about this day. Ya, I would love to help Firefox set a record and anything that shows up I.E. is a cause worth supporting!
http://www.jackpicks.com/2008/06/firefox-3.html