Firefox 3 ships 10am PDT....

Jonny Evans
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June 17, 2008
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We love it, many of you love it, it gives Microsoft a headache and while we love Safari too, we're ready and waiting for when Firefox 3 will ship at 10am (PDT) today.

We've signed up to support the release by downloading it the moment it's made available - hopefully putting the release into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloaded software ever released. 

Firefox 3.0 will be fast, loading pages up to four times faster than the previous version and an astonishing seven times faster than Internet Explorer (why does anyone still use Microsoft's stuff, anyway?).

So - roll along to the Spreadfirefox website and take a look at the tons of new features that we can look forward to in Firefox; get ready to download it, and don't bother downloading those files named Firefox 3 that seem to be circulating right now - some of these are just re-named versions of the last beta, and in any case, these downloads don't count as part of the world record attempt. And we really hope to see an explosion in its market share in next month's Net Applications stats...

Updated to add: As of 10.05 am PDT, the Firefox servers are clearly being hammered - we're just trying to get in!

 

Comments (11)

applefangrammy (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 6:50am

Which is it? 10AM as the title says or 10PM as the story says?

kevvyg (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 6:52am

Actually, you can download it now from the official Mozilla site here:

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=osx&lang=en-US

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 7:11am

Heh... it worked! And fast, too... I'm sure it's going to be stupidly slow later on.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 7:13am

BAH! I was fooled!

The link still only downloads RC3... damn... I'll have to try again later...

Jonny Evans | June 17, 2008 - 7:13am

 "....and don't bother downloading those files named Firefox 3 that seem to be circulating right now - some of these are just re-named versions of the last beta..."

kevvyg (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 12:59pm

It points to the real, actual site. And if you download and install, then do an About, you'll see that it's the same exact version they "released" at 1PM.

It's hard being right all the time...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 7:28am

Why do i have to wait for California to wake up, in order to download this beautifully crafted software!? Why not 10 EST. Why can't the east side be special!! Hahaha! I'm kidding, lighten up, it's tuesday!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 1:08pm

Very Safari-like. I like it so far.

genaro02 (not verified) | June 17, 2008 - 9:31pm

It's Wonderful,and very , very quick . Thankyou for the Link. Run , don't walk , download and be grateful for the wonderful Folks at Firefox who care about what they do. Forget all others , this is the best. Run away from all other pretenders.

Zews (not verified) | June 18, 2008 - 12:32am

Interesting.

When I check Help/Check for Updates ..., I get: "There are no new updates available. Firefox may check periodically for new updates."

Then Firefox (2.0.0.14) crashes.

That's how good Firefox is. It can't even check for it's own updates!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 18, 2008 - 2:08pm

iDisk's web interface doesn't seem to work with FF3 on OS X. Anyone else experiencing this?