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  • Guinness awards download record to Firefox 3

    The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox.

  • Firefox 3 downloads clear 8 million mark

    Mozilla claims that at its peak, Firefox 3 was being downloaded 14,000 per minute and in the first 24 hours, the organisation had served more than eight million copies of its new browser.

  • Opera claims victory over less secure browsers

    Norwegian-based Opera software said more than one million people have downloaded version 8.51 of its browser in the past week because they are concerned about security issues in alternatives, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

  • Firefox beta out of the foxhole

    A test version of an updated Firefox browser is out, offering such features as automatic updates and improvements designed to speed browser navigation.

  • Firefox marks its first year on the Net

    Firefox turned one year old Wednesday, marking yet another milestone for the popular open-source browser.

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  • Photos: New features in Firefox 3

    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 worldwide. This photo gallery takes you inside the new features this recording breaking browser.

  • Photo Gallery: Inside Firefox 2

    Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor.

  • For Opera, smaller really is better

    Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.

  • New Firefox, Mozilla releases coming to fix bugs

    Mozilla Foundation plans to soon release new versions of the browsers to deal with a recently disclosed serious security flaw and other bugs.

  • Microsoft out-Firefoxed?

    The software giant is playing it low-key, but a barrage of verbal pyrotechnics is around the bend.

Reviews (65)

  • Get a new browser

    Internet Explorer is getting a bad rap lately, and the fact is, a lot of other options are out there. Heck, some of those options are Internet Explorer, just in a different package. So, is it Firefox or some other alternative?

  • Firefox 3

    If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.

  • Firefox 3 beta 1: a first look

    A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.

  • Mozilla Firefox 2

    Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor and deserving our Editors' Choice award.

  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5

    While Firefox 1.5 isn't too different from the original release, what's new should attract even more Firefox users -- and that's ultimately good for the Internet.

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