First off, you only have about two hours left to download Firefox 3 if you want it to count towards their world record.
I downloaded it, and am pretty impressed. This is a huge upgrade; not so much in terms of features, but mostly in terms of performance. I find that it starts up, and runs, much faster than it used to. Additionally, it seems to be taking up less memory (those two kind of go together anyway).
Originally, I had intended to go over some of the nice, new feature, but it's already been done, so I'm just going to link you to an article which does a really good job. The image above is from that article. I especially am enjoying the smart location bar, which is feature #2 in that article.
You can see a graph of Firefox's market share during the course of this 24 hour release. It went up 3%. That may not seem like too much, but this is 3% of all of the internet browsers being used everywhere at any given time. It started above zero because Firefox 3 has been beta released (RC1 - release candidate 1, RC2, etc.) for some time now, but this was the final release yesterday.
On one of the developer's blogs of Firefox, I found an article about some features that may or not make it into Firefox 3. I took a screenshot of a description of one of the features; this one seemed particularly nice to me, and I'm disappointed it's not implemented.
Overall, well done Mozilla, well done.
Godspeed.
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