Firefox 3: Records are made to be set
Sometimes a race horse stumbles out of the gate and it wins anyway. Such is the case with Mozilla’s Firefox 3.
Mozilla put out a lofty goal of 5 million downloads for Firefox 3 on the first day. As of noon today, the number stands at just over 8.5 million. In the United States alone, over 2.6 million people have downloaded the browser. Very, very impressive.
While attempting to set a Guinness World Record for software downloads… Continue Reading
Failfox 3, er…Firefox 3: The race to 5 million is on, but the race to one proves difficult
It is both annoying and laughable when a company massively hypes its own launch, only to result in broken links and 404 pages. As Stinger taught Maverick in Top Gun, you shouldn’t let your ego write checks that your body can’t cash. Mozilla apparently never learned from that message, and the launch of Firefox 3 has badly stumbled out of the gate.
Mozilla’s failure is actually worse than most in a couple regards. First, it is… Continue Reading
Today is Firefox download day. Will it hit 5 million?
Hey kids, it’s past midnight on June 17th and you know what that means: It’s Firefox Download Day! In a few hours, the latest iteration of the insurgent web browser, Firefox 3, will be unleashed upon the world.
If you live on the west coast, the time to download will be 10 AM. If you live on the east coast, you’ll have to wait until 1 PM. For everyone else, check out this map.
Mozilla, the makers… Continue Reading
Insurgent web browser Firefox 3 launches in six days
The first release candidate of Mozilla’s Firefox 3 web browser has been out for almost a month but the company had been quiet about when the final version would be released. Instead, all we got was that it would ship “when it’s ready.” Well now we know: it’ll be ready next week.
The final version of Firefox 3 will ship on June 17. This represents 34 months of active development on the follow-up to its hugely… Continue Reading
Firefox continues to gain market share in Europe, the world
A few weeks ago, we covered how Mozilla’s Firefox, the open-source web browser, is now used by more than 160 million people around the world. Earlier today, we covered Firefox’s plans to develop a robust mobile browser. Now, here’s some more data for you about Firefox’s growth around the world, based on a study by French web survey company ZiTi Monitor.
This past March, according to the study, Firefox was being used by nearly 29 percent… Continue Reading
Mozilla releases The Coop — social networking in your browser
The Coop is a new social networking feature by Mozilla, which will let users of its Firefox browser keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share content with them.
It will integrate with web services, using data feeds so that you can keep up your friends’ activities on various sites. This may hurt Flock, the browser company that was about to release a version with similar features (we saw a demo several… Continue Reading
“Young Guns” form secret Silicon Valley society
That’s what Rolling Stone wants you to believe, in its latest edition. In a story called “Baby Billionaires of Silicon Valley,” Rolling Stone catches up with a group nine entrepreneurs who get together to strategize. This is another hype job, since none of these people are billionaires. (Update: Blake Ross, in comment below, says this is no secret society, and headline is wrong.)
From the piece:
That’s why they’ve gathered here tonight. This is one of the… Continue Reading