We’re just minutes into the Final Release of Firefox 3, dubbed “Download Day“, and already it appears that the Mozilla servers are quite thrashed. If they can keep the servers alive, I believe they probably will set a record. Despite all this excitement about breaking a record, these numbers really have a lot less to do with the number of people using Firefox, and a lot more to do with the enthusiasm of the people using Firefox as a great product/idea/movement/way. More than all the bandying about on downloads, I think they should really be talking about their alternate distribution methods. Bittorrent and other peer-to-peer methods, as well as package managed applications such as apt-get install firefox-3.0 on debian systems. Then it wouldn’t be so hard to actually get a copy using traditional methods, on “Download Day”
By the way Firefox 3 IS everything it’s cracked up to be. the new awesome bar incorporates; bookmarks, tags, recent / popular pages into an easy-to-use autocomplete that will really change the way you use the address bar. I’m anxious to see what new extensions will start to appear to take advantage of the tagging system for bookmarks which is still in its infancy. Well if you can find a copy, install FF3 do it today, the time is now.
Filed by joshc at June 17th, 2008 under
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