Firefox 3 Goes Live, Breaks Record- Worth the Hype?
Yesterday I was one of eight million people who downloaded Mozilla Firefox 3, a software release so hyped up you’d think that Steve Jobs had whipped it out of his pants.
The open-source rival to Microsoft’s loathed Internet Explorer holds runner-up spot in the browser wars, commanding roughly 18.4% of internet users round the world, compared to Microsoft’s huuuge 73.8% share.
With Firefox 3 Mozilla wanted to set a record for “most software downloaded in a 24 hour period”- but they had to fence off such adversities as blogger smugness, and a brief server-overload crashing the download site first.
By around 4am UK time last night the 24 hours were up- 8.2 million downloads meant the world record was pretty-much de facto, and the Internet Explorer team even sent them a congratulatory cake.
For Firefox users not a whole lot has changed: a dash of paint, a blitzkrieg of hype, and one sturdy, resiliant browser is replaced by another of the same ilk. Next time I won’t be getting off my seat.
Link to download Firefox 3.
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Fascinating.
Thanks for the link to firefox, I downloaded it.
Not really worth all the hype but it is a slightly better version regardless :)!
~webmaster of http://www.gnarfard.com