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It’s official – Firefox 3 is the Largest number of software downloads in 24 hours

Firefox 3 is now officially the holder of Guinness World Record for “Largest number of software downloads in 24 hours“. This amazing feat will not materialized without the support from the whole Firefox communities and users. Give yourself a BIG clap!!

In 24 hours of ‘Download Day’, 8,002,530 peoples has downloaded Firefox 3. Amazing right!! The number could be higher, if not due the server crash issue at the beginning of the day.

If you’re not one of them, it’s not to late to get your copy today. Tell your brothers/sisters, uncles/aunties, in-laws to do the same. Until now 28 million copies of Firefox 3 has been downloaded. But yes, there are millions more internet users that are yet to use Firefox.  So there is huge opportunities for Firefox 3 to penetrate the market conquered by IE before.

Check out the pledge map to get to know how many copies has been downloaded by your fellow countrymen. Let’s beat this record when Firefox 4 launched in future!!

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Admin 3 July 2008 Software , , , , 7 Comments

Firefox 3 for beginners

Ok, by now, current Firefox users should have Firefox 3 installed and you’re excited with the new features. But how about new Firefox users or someone who has never used Firefox before?

Firefox is the 2nd most use internet browser (IE still topping the list), and the recent Firefox 3 was downloaded 8 millions times, in 24 hour! Great isn’t it? What makes Firefox different from IE? It is customizable with tonnes of add ons to make your internet browser better, and it is also community based software.

To get started, please allow me to provide you some guide, what you need to know, so that you can get readyfirefox Firefox 3 for beginners if anything happens (I know that even some of our system architects do not know Firefox, all they know is IE).

Do this first

Download Firefox 3 before you read further. To get familiar, read tips and tricks, features and security

Firefox add on – Where you can get new plugins, themes, extensions, language packs to make your browser a lot better than just internet browser.

Firefox theme on Customize.org – May not be compatible with Firefox 3

Community & Fun

SpreadFirefox – Firefox Marketing Community

Mozilla Store – Get yourself Firefox merchandise such as t-shirt, sticker and etc

Mozilla Blog

Helpdesk

Firefox Forum – Discuss everything about Firefox here

Known issue – It lists down all known issues on this version

Mozilla knowledge base – It’s like microsoft knowledge base where you can search everything about Firefox and other Mozilla products

Firefox3 Wiki – Everything you need to know about Firefox

Firefox related blog

firefoxmastery

mozillalinks

Asa Dotzler

Alex Faaborg

For Developers

Firefox 3 developer center

Mozilla Development blog and news

gran paradiso Firefox 3 for beginners

Before this post ends, download Gran Paradiso (Grand Paradise) picture beside – the codename for Firefox 3, if you’re interested.

And the rest is history for Mozilla Firefox.

Admin 19 June 2008 Internet , , 3 Comments

Get yourself Firefox 3

The wait is almost over. Firefox 3 will be released tomorrow, 17th June 2008. This marks the new milestone for Firefox , whereby the last major release was a few years back. 180x150 02c en Get yourself Firefox 3

Firefox calls tomorrow as a ‘Download Day’. So, spread the news to help Firefox set a new Guinness World Record, for Most Software Downloaded in 24 hours by pledging to download Firefox 3.

Apart from that, be Firefox affiliate, and earn points whenever you refer someone to download Firefox. Who knows Firefox will be kind enough to offer you something as a reward when you become among the top referrers!

I know now is Euro 2008 season, and most of us stuck in front of TV watching the games. But for party lovers, find your Firefox party here!

Lastly, why not get yourself a Firefox 3 t-shirt?

Admin 16 June 2008 Software , , , 6 Comments

Official firefox 3 tshirt released

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is available for download and slated for final release later of this year. Accompanying Firefox 3 browser is the tshirt which was released recently

This would be official Firefox 3 tshirt where the design was chosen from the contest that was held last March. I blog for the same contest from my tshirt blog, but I decide to blog about the official Firefox 3 tshirt in blogjer, as it have more readers

I use Firefox most of the time, and the stat telling me also that 2/5 blogjer’s readers are using Firefox as well. What made Firefox admirable? Other than traditional use of web browser to browse Internet, Firefox has more superior functionality with lots of supported plugin out there. All of this make the Firefox even better and useful as compared to IE.

With 11k bug fixes and 2 millions line of code changes on this version, it took about 27 months to develop and test it. It’s hell lot of times!! So, buy one to show your support to Firefox, and proud to be part of the community.

Price started at £9.8 excluding shipping (quite expensive after converted to MYR). If you buy more than £10, they’ll give away free sticker. Apart from this design, there are more on their store.

I may get one if the price in USD icon razz Official firefox 3 tshirt released

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The design (front)

firefox3 tshirt Official firefox 3 tshirt released

front and back design

Admin 12 June 2008 Software , , , 8 Comments
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