Firefox 3 Released
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Mozilla has released Firefox 3, which has a lot of awesome new features and tons of bug fixes. Download it, use it, love it.
Read about the new features in Firefox 3
Mozilla is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, you can see a map of their progress so far at the spreadfirefox.com world record map page (you can even get a certificate with your name on it for participating, if that kind of thing interests you).
America is in the lead with well over 2 million downloads, Germany comes in second with almost half a million (huzzah for Germany!!!). Altogether there is a total of over 7 million downloads across the entire globe, but it’s not over yet…… hurry on over and add another download to the count!
Downloads began yesterday, but so many people were trying to download that the Mozilla servers just couldn’t handle it and they were down for a good while; fortunately they’re back up now and cranking the downloads through at almost 9,000 downloads a minute.
The Mozilla Blog has a message from Paul Kim, Mozilla’s VP of marketing, concerning the slowdown:
Our systems were quite busy earlier this morning so individual requests may not have gotten through - but they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads. We are currently serving almost 9,000 downloads a minute, which puts us on track to achieve 5-7 million downloads our first day of general availability.