Spreading the Firefox love
Mozilla is launching Firefox 3 and they’re doing so in style, by attempting to set a record for the most number of downloads during a 24hour period. This is a great idea to spread awareness and love of a browser that has gained quite a significant amount of awareness over time. The thing us Australians should pay attention to is the date, while stated everywhere on the website as June 17. The official launch time of 10am on June 17, Pacific Daylight Time is actually 3am on the 18th of June here in New South Wales. You can check the official start time for wherever you are here.
To get involved you can pledge your bandwidth by clicking the banner below.
I’ve been using the Firefox 3 beta release candidate since I upgraded to Hardy Heron and it’s grown on me. I’ll like it even more when they start supporting more of the extensions I used to use with FF2. On the other hand, it’s been good to clean out the extension collection to determine what I really use and what I can live without.
July 2nd, 2008 at 19:49
I’ve been using Firefox 3 ever since it went full release and love it as a browser.
However I’ve been having a lot of crashes with it – 3-4 each day….roughly one every few hours.
It seems to be a bit of a memory hog, and doesn’t handle releasing Windows virtual memory as well as it could.
Hopefully there will be a 3.1 out soon!
July 3rd, 2008 at 08:19
I’m yet to see an update/upgrade addon, so I’m not entirely happy with FF3.
But, yes, overall FF3 is far better.
July 3rd, 2008 at 08:20
(… update for del.icio.us)