Firefox 3

Published on 06/14/2008

You may have noticed a new little image below my list of slideshows on the right. I figured I'd write a little note to explain that (and give my subtle plug). The new version of my favorite web browser, Firefox 3, is coming out on June 17th; they just announced the date today. The little banner I put up is about Download Day, which is an attempt by the Firefox folks to set a world record for most copies of a single piece of software downloaded in a 24 hour period. If you click on the banner you can pledge to download it on that day (for free, of course) and add one more download to the count for your country. It shows a map that you can mouse over and seehow many people have pledged so far around the world--it's kinda neat. Anyway, it would be cool to be a part of the world record, but regardless, you should definitely try Firefox 3. I've been using it for quite a while now, as Firefox 3 Beta 5 was the default browser in the latest release of Ubuntu (Hary Heron) It's great. I like it a lot. Firefox 2 was amazing, and this is even better. So yeah, that's what that's about. :)

[Edit] Well, download day is over and was quite the success with over 8 million downloads in the 24 hour period after it was released. Pretty cool.