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8 million

That's the number of total download in yesterday's "firefox 3 download day".

Other source says that the market share of Firefox 3 reached 4% at end of the day. Quite amazing, really.

However, the firefox team still needs to keep up with the updates. I've also heard many complaints saying that it crashes regularly or incompatible to Silverlight.

Non of those happened to me, yet. What I see is a huge improvement on reducing memory leak and faster rendering speed. The only problem is, firebug plugin has yet to release a Firefox 3 compatible version.

Overall, I would highly recommend this version for people still on Firefox 2 or IE.

wow

It's around 9.40 NZST at the moment. The Firefox download day has just started about 4 hours ago. I checked the stats:

Total Downloads Region Downloads

1,423,547

New Zealand

3,628

Seems the 1.5 million Firefox 2 download record will be easily passed. I expect the number to rise rapidly in few hours as the sun rises in Asian countries such as China and Japan.

I'm in my work place so I don't have the privilege to install it now , but would definitely recommend the network administrator to upgrade Firefox on everyone's computer later.

1.4 million, that's definitely a huge number for just 4 hours' download. Friends in China who waited the download to start says the website was totally crashed before anyone can start.

Wonder if this would also set another world record: largest scale of DDOS attack in the world.

It's fine now, I downloaded it in less than half a minute.

Join us to crash the server, it's not too late.The download will end in 3.16am (UTC+8) if you are in China, or 7.16am tomorrow (NZST, UTC +12) if you are in New Zealand.

The latest near-real time download time can be found herehere

Tomorrow is the day!

The long expected Firefox 3, will be officially released on 17 June 2008, which is ... tomorrow night or early Wednesday in NZ.

There were several beta and RC versions available. I did not try it since I'm not that kind of guinea pig type software enthusiast. However, from other people's comments, I expect the Firefox 3 to be something worth you to download, and have a try (if you never used firefox before...)

I'm a long time Netscape - Firefox user. I enjoyed Firefox with its high flexibility - you can almost add any function you can imagine to your browser by simply install a plug-in.

Another reason is just do my small bit to prevent a monopoly. Netscape has been put down by AOl, which is a sad story. However, it's legacy, and the <blink> tag, continued in Firefox.

Of all the visitors to my Chinese and this blog, roughly 25% of them are using Firefox. It's a high percentage considering that Internet Explorer had a several year monopoly over the market.

The Firefox 3 release also got something quite special ... It will attempt to become "the most downloaded software in 24 hours" in Guinness World Record. 1.3 million people worldwide have pleaded that they will become part of this "download day".

Great idea to increase Firefox's publicity.

A new look for this blog... and other stuff

I was bit tired with the old theme, the colour suited my taste, but I just simply did too many changes on it, especially on my Chinese Blog , if i don't totally overhaul it and restart again that theme would just become totally unworkable. Read more