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Firefox 3 Download Day…A Success?

Download Day
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Today is the day that Firefox 3 was to be released. I checked their site today morning to see, and it hadn’t started yet, probably because they meant ’17th June’ as in GMT or some US-specific timezone. I logged in again right now, and tried to do my bit by try to access both spreadfirefox.com and mozilla.com to get my copy of the browser, and BOTH sites are not loading right now. Might be unable to serve pages, or indeed, handle downloads because of so many people trying to access it at the same time. Does that mean it’s a such a success, that it’s become a victim of its own success? Dunno. Until the results get verified, we won’t know whether the record attempt succeeded. Till then, I’ll keep trying to do MY bit for the effort, and see if I can get Firefox 3 within the 24 hour Download Day period.

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Firefox 3 – The Download Day Approaches!

Mozilla pins (wallpaper)
Creative Commons License photo credit: flodIf you’re a no-good dumbo nothing, then you’d probably have not heard of Mozilla’s attempt at setting the world record for the most number of software downloads in a day. The software? Firefox, version 3. Why should you upgrade? Because it has a far lower memory footprint (= “consumes less RAM / virtual memory while running”); and a nifty new address bar which allows you to search through pages using the name of the page, rather than just the URL. For example, if you had previously visited some other post on my blog a few days ago, then you’d normally have to bring up that page again using its URL; with Firefox 3, you can simply enter a part of the title of the page, and Firefox will show the matching results.

Those are the major changes, with others including a better options management area, with options to set defaults for handling different filetypes in a much easier form than currently. You’ll love it. And you can download it on Tuesday, 17th June (along with helping to set a world record!). Mark that date down in your calender. Or head to www.spreadfirefox.com to pledge yourself to the cause, and get a reminder before the event.