According to the Mozilla foundation that released the new browser, the software was downloaded 8.3 million times in its first 24 hours of release starting Tuesday morning.
The downloads were so popular that they initially crashed the servers running the operation.
At their busiest, the servers were handling more than 9,000 downloads per minute and within five hours had surpassed the initial daily download of 1.6 million set by Firefox 2.0 in October 2006.
Tech critics greeted the new browser and recommended users to adopt it.
”Firefox 3 is the best Web browser I’ve ever seen. And I’ve been using the Web since before there were Web browsers,” said ComputerWorld’s Steven J Vaughan-Nichols.
Firefox has been rapidly attracting users since its 2004 launch and now has approximately 18 per cent of the market, compared to the 72 per cent share enjoyed by Internet Explorer which has the advantage of being pre-installed on the vast majority of computers.
Firefox is mainly downloaded by individual users and as of February 2008 it had been downloaded over 500 million times. However, since one user may download the software several
times, the best estimate for regular Firefox users is around 140 million.
Source : Indiatimes Infotech
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“In many ways Firefox 3 is much more stable than anything else out there,” Mozilla Corp Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said in an interview.
Additions boost security and allow users to run Web sites when they are not connected to the Internet. Mozilla also says Firefox 3 uses less RAM than Firefox 2.
Engineers at Mozilla are still putting the finishing touches on the software and hope to release the final version of Firefox 3 by the end of June, Schroepfer said. A 5th round of changes, will involve “tuning the visual look and feel of the program” and further improving its stability,” Schroepfer said.
| File size: |
1,457 K |
| Download Time Estimate: |
2 minutes @ 56K modem |
| Version: |
9,0,115,0 |
| Browser: |
Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Opera |
| Date Posted: |
12/3/2007 |
| Language: |
English |
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- Release Date:
- November 26, 2007
Security Issues Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.10
MFSA 2007-39 Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition
MFSA 2007-38 Memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv:1.8.1.10)
MFSA 2007-37 jar: URI scheme XSS hazard
Mozilla has released the Firefox 3.0 beta 1, it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. The release notes states it is currently for testing purposes and aimed at developers, not recommended for normal users. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available in 20 languages
Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.
Mozilla provides Firefox 3 Beta 1 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages. You can get the latest version of Firefox 3 Beta 1.
