Firefox 3.0 Download
The Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla’s browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.
Firefox is a small, fast and very easy to use browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the tabbed browsing.
Features of Mozilla Firefox:
· comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop;
· a tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you’re on;
· integrated search (powered by Google);
· industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing;
· simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively;
· a streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable;
· a large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser.
Now that Firefox 3.0 is widely available to the general public, Mozilla is cooking the next version which is planed for delivery either in the last quarter of this year, or in Q1 2009. With the first beta Build scheduled for the end of August, the development process will not permit Mozilla to ship a major update to Firefox, but only integrate the features and capabilities that were cut out of Firefox 3.0. And version 3.1 will have some rather big shoes to fill when it is made available.
Mozilla received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the ‘largest number of software downloads in 24 hours’. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3! Tristan Nitot, President of Mozilla Europe, accepted the certificate from Gareth Deaves, Records Manager for Internet and Technology at Guinness World Records, on behalf the Firefox Community,” revealed Jane Hatton Finette, Director of European Marketing at Mozilla Corporation.
Firefox 3.1 is the successor of Firefox 3.0, and Mozilla is currently cooking the first Alpha version of the next iteration of its open source browser. Pre-Alpha versions of Firefox 3.1 codename Shiretoko are already available for download and testing, and the fully fledged Alpha is right on track for delivery by the end of this month. Damon Sicore, Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, pointed to two potential dates for the availability of Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 which could drop at the end of the next week along the Firefox 3.0.1 security and stability
update, or the week after that.
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