Firefox 3 Sets World Record?

Published on June 19, 2008 By kryo In Personal Computing

Following Tuesday's release of Firefox 3, and despite a couple of server downtimes (due to the huge demand), the Mozilla Foundation has announced that the new version of their browser was downloaded more than 8 million times in the first 24 hours of availability! Their claim to the record of most downloads in one day is still being verified by Guinness, but it's still quite an amazing feat.

Personally, I've only just gotten the browser this morning (I first tried during one of the above mentioned downtimes), but already it seems tremendously faster than Firefox 2. I haven't really had much chance to look into the new UI elements just yet, but at least most of my add-ons (all the important ones, anyway) had updates available, and so far they all seem to be working well.

What does everyone else think so far, especially those who weren't previously Firefox users? Is Firefox 3 going to make you switch from IE or Opera? If not, why not?

Comments (Page 1)

vStyler

on Jun 19, 2008

Holds the record for the worst browser for skinning too

I-Mod Stefan

on Jun 19, 2008

Was one of the first downloading it^^

I like FF3, it's fast, nice looking and has web 2.0 search. If I think of a fragment in the name of a website it finds it for me easily

kingpan

on Jun 19, 2008

well it couldn't lose either way lol. its the first to do this world record so idk. reminds me of IE8 lol

but either way congrats to mozilla and yay for new browser

UEF Soldier

on Jun 19, 2008

yeah, i was one of the first as well. i went there, and it showed v2.14, but the firefox 3 picture was shown on the page, so i downloaded it. i installed it, and then it overwrote firefox 3, and then it tried to find older versions of my add-ons, and crashed.

then i went to my gaming rig, 30seconds later, and the version number changed to 3.

Macmatt

on Jun 19, 2008

After getting through the rather shambolic download process yesterday, I am currently using Firefox, and although the new features aren't as impressive as those added in FF2, there are a lot of little things that I really like.

Fuzzy Logic

on Jun 19, 2008

I've been using FF3 for ages. It's the first version for me which has completely replaced IE for every day use. With FF2 I always had to go back to IE for some things.

Sadly the shop I get my groceries online from only lets me login with IE...

Sir_On_The_Edge

on Jun 19, 2008

It's an amazing achievement to have improved on Firefox 2 as much as they have with 3.

zakai1369

on Jun 19, 2008

Oh yeah. I forgot to update to the final release.

bilbo1930

on Jun 19, 2008

I've been using FF3 for ages. It's the first version for me which has completely replaced IE for every day use. With FF2 I always had to go back to IE for some things.
Sadly the shop I get my groceries online from only lets me login with IE...

agree with Fuzzy, FF3 awesome...quick , nice, more stable..recommend!

Phoon

on Jun 19, 2008

Is Firefox 3 going to make you switch from IE or Opera? If not, why not?

Firefox 2 was such a memory pig that I stopped using FF altogether.
IE7 serves every single solitary need I currently or will most likely ever have. I've never had a security issue or a serious performace issue with it either. So, no, I won't be switching.

heft

on Jun 19, 2008

I once switched back to IE, back in the days of FF1. Then I switched back to FF with v2. FF3 is even better, and I can't imagine going back to IE (especially with the IE Tab Add-on, I don't even need IE for the MS site!).

erathoniel

on Jun 19, 2008

I'm gonna switch over sometime soon.

tubster

on Jun 19, 2008

Just 5 hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla’s flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts all Firefox 3.0 users at risk of PC takeover attacks.

According to a note from TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) , a company that buys exclusive rights to software vulnerability data, the Firefox 3.0 bugalso affects earlier versions of Firefox 2.0x.

Technical details are being kept under wraps until Mozilla’s security team ships a patch.

According to ZDI’s alert, it should be considered a high-severity risk:
"Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, permitting the attacker to completely take over the vulnerable process, potentially allowing the machine running the process to be completely controlled by the attacker".

zakai1369

on Jun 19, 2008

So now they have the potential for a second Guinness record " Company to piss off the most customers simultaneously"

Jouketje

on Jun 19, 2008

I'm not gonna switch from Opera. It's just not good enough to give up Mouse Gestures and the mail client for

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