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Firefox 3 Download Guinness World Record official
Mozilla announced it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.
The record-setting 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3 on download day have now been officially declared a Guinness World Record.
"The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was instrumental in achieving this record," said Paul Kim, VP of Marketing at Mozilla. "Our community members came together and not only spread the word, but also took the initiative to help mobilize millions of people to demonstrate their belief that Firefox gives people the best possible online experience."
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox 3 sets new Download World Record
The Download Day is over! Mozilla set a new Guinness World Record with the most downloads in 24 hours. Since the record did not exist before, 1 download would have been enough, but the final download number is very impressive.
As almost expected the servers got overloaded in the beginning yesterday but they recovered and 8,249,092 downloads world-wide have been delivered.
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Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:20:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox 3 Downloads over 6m already [Update]
The Firefox 3 Download Day is still going on and so is the world record attempt. Update: Firefox 3 World Record is set.
The Firefox 3 download counter currently states 4.6m downloads and keeps going strong. Update: 7:20am EST The download counter is now over 6m. The U.S. accounted for almost half of these downloads.
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Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:57:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox 3 Download Day starts at 10am PCT
Firefox 3 Download Day is today. At 10am PCT (1pm EST) the Guinness World Record attempt begins. The Mozilla guys want to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer, and smarter than before and definately worth trying out. Browsers are a very personal thing. I have Firefox and IE 7 installed, but somehow still stick with using IE 7 most of the time.
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Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox 3 Release on June 17th
The Mozilla guys announced today the release date of Firefox 3.
Development of the new Firefox 3 browser took more than 34 months. The last release candidate was published a month ago.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox 3 Release Candidate available for download
Firefox 3 is out of beta and the first release candidate is available for download now.
The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.
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Posted on Sat, 17 May 2008 10:35:47 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox 3 Beta Review, Verdict: A Disappointment
OSWeekly tested the latest Firefox 3 beta and is not impressed. Firefox 3 is now in beta 5 and available for download at the Mozilla site.
Quote from the review: "I’ve been testing the latest release of Firefox since my last article, which discussed the areas Mozilla needed to work on. Overall, it looks and feels like the last release.
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Posted on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:40:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released
A new beta version of the upcoming Firefox 3 browser has been released.
The Firefox 3 Beta 4 is a developer preview release is being made available for testing. Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 31 months.
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Posted on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:25:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox Mobile to come to Smartphones in 2008
Mozilla has apparently started negotiations with carriers to see if they are interested in the Firefox Mobile browser.
Opera is already out there and competes with the Microsoft Explorer on Smartphones. I'm thinking Firefox maybe a little late to the game here.
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Posted on Mon, 3 Mar 2008 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Firefox reaches 500,000,000 Download Milestone
The Firefox browser got downloaded 500 million times. This is quite an impressive number.
I still find myself using both browsers on a daily basis. I spend still the most time inside Internet Explorer in Windows.
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Posted on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Mozilla works on The Coop - Social Tools for Firefox
Mozilla Labs works on "The Coop", a set of Social network tools to be integrated into the Firefox browser.
With The Coop you can add your friends to show up in a sidebar on the browser. Shared browsing and content exchange from other sources like Flickr are possible.
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Posted on Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
New Firefox Browser Version 1.0.1 Launched
Firefox 1.0.1 is available for download. The new version has improved stability, International Domains are shown in punycode (hu? RFC 3492 - Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) - Faqs.org) and security fixes.
The Windows Firefox 1.0.1 download is 4.7MB.
As reported Microsoft has announced IE 7 coming this year.
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Posted on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:14:54 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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