Firefox 3 aimed for 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and smashed all expectations achieving more than 8 million downloads. This photo gallery takes you inside the new features this recording breaking browser.
After months of testing, Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. With its new Gekko 1.9 engine, the browser renders pages faster and uses fewer system resources overall. As with any new browser, some add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work, but give them time.
Firefox 3 offers faster rendering, a vastly reduced use of system resources and clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history. Most notable is the fact that Firefox 3 includes many built-in security-related features, such as the best-of-breed antiphishing protection, making Firefox the most secure browser on the market today. If you haven't already tried Firefox, what are you waiting for? Firefox 3 remains our Editors' Choice over Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Opera.
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"Firefox 3 offers faster rendering, a vastly reduced use of system resources and clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history."
And, a new code execution vulnerability right from day one. It say a lot for the browser that so many hoped would live up to a brief reputation riding on how secure the browser was supposed to be. Then again, if you release software and claim that hackers can't break it then you are asking for trouble and it looks like the chook has come home to roost.
I'll stick with IE - better the devil you know, and it means one less application to worry about.