It is now official! Guinness officials announced that Firefox holds the record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours with 8,002,530 number of Firefox 3 downloads beginning 18:16 +UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 +UTC on June 18, 2008.

Firefox community now has 180 million users in 230 countries all around the world. The best part of it is I am part of the event! And of course you are too, if you downloaded Firefox 3 on that date. And to celebrate this joyous event, you can get your personalized Firefox Download Day certificate here.

Congratulations, Firefox team!

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I just found out that Mozilla Firefox, the world’s favorite web browser, has a portable version that can be stored in a USB storage device.

Bring your bookmarks with you with Portable Firefox

Firefox is bundled with PortableApps.com launcher, a free and open source platform you can use with any storage device like flash drives or iPod. So when you combine a portable app with Firefox, what you will get is a super fast and free browser that you can carry anywhere with you. And yes, it means you also have your bookmarks and extensions in your handy lil’ Portable Firefox. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mozilla has released Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the much awaited version 3 of Firefox, a very popular web browser. The Release Candidate version serves as a public preview of the soon to be final release of Firefox 3 and also as testing release for Open Source developers. This version is also for those who are not into software development but would like to contribute to Mozilla’s open source initiative by sending in comments and suggestions. (Hey, the more heads, the merrier!)

Mozilla developers also focus on what seems to be the most important aspect of softwares - performance. RC1 has shown improved performance on speed, memory footprint and reliability. New features has also been added, thanks to the open source community for letting the Firefox developers know what users *really* need. Read the rest of this entry »

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I am a loyal Firefox fan and a loyal user for years and so I have seen how Firefox grew and improved. Mozilla does a great job of developing Firefox to the point where it is even with MS counterpart Internet Explorer, if not better, when it comes to usability, stability and performance.
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