Firefox 3, Making awesome software and world records - Adventures in Switching to Linux

Friday, July 4, 2008

Firefox 3, Making awesome software and world records

If you haven't noticed (I don't think any one hasn't), Firefox 3 has been out for just over 2 weeks now (June 17, 2008). On the release day they also had a push to create a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in one day and despite some initial issues, they (we) did it!

Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a safer, smarter and better Web.
I've been running some of the betas for a while now and despite some crashes in those pre-releases, this is definitely the best release yet. It feels faster, looks better, uses less memory and the awesome bar truly is awesome. If you have been running Ubuntu 8.04, you too have been running beta 5. So go get your download day certificate and enjoy the new browser.

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