Mozilla 3.1 Beta Release 2 had just been released for beta testing. For regular users like most of us, among the few features include on this release are as follow
- Beta version is available on your local version.
- New Private Browsing Mode.
- Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
- Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications. More information.
Before installing, if you’re heavy Firefox user with lots of plugin installed, please be aware that some of them might not work. Beside that, please have a look at the Known Issue section
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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!!
Via Statcounter blog, it is mentioned that Firefox has slightly gained in web browser market share.
Overall, Firefox’s share of the browser market has increased from 34.9% to 36% over the two day period while Internet Explorer drops slightly from 56.3% to 55.4%.
Usage of Firefox 3 jumps from 7.8% to 18.9% between June 16th and 18th.
For a note, this static is gathered from data of 55 millions pageviews collected from 1400 websites.
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Bravo firefox! But the situation might change with the release of IE8 slated this August. Check out statistics from other resources (data is available as of May 2008 only).
Statistic from W3schools
Statistic from Hitwise
Statistic from Wikipedia
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 
The design (front)
front and back design
