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Mozilla confirms Firefox 3 "Download Day"

Urges users worldwide to hold parties

NEWS: 12 June 2008 11:53 GMT by Amy-Mae Elliott

The date for the final, and suitable for public consumption, release of the new Firefox internet browser, Firefox 3, has at long last been revealed by Mozilla.

The 17 June has been named "Download Day" by the organisation, who are urging users worldwide to hold Firefox-themed download "fest" parties on that date, with a special party site created to help with organising.

In addition to the parties, Mozilla is also hoping to break a Guinness world record for the most software downloads in 1 day with over a million people already registered in an online "pledge" to download on the big day.

The new browser has been literally years in development and promises tens of thousands of tweaks and improvements over the already popular Firefox 2.

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  • I have been reading various articles, which advertise the newest version of Firefox as the next big thing, or seem to.

    I'm not sure if i am the only person who has noticed this but, it seems that Firefox is using Opera as it's live Beta testing program. The new version of Firefox includes "Speed Dial", something that Opera has had for quite some time now. The next version 3.1 of Firefox will have tab thumbnails, again taken from Opera, and they are including tag auto complete... The Wnad feature from Opera anyone...

    It's a shame that Firefox can't come up worth some original ideas for the all new shiny version, instead of pinching bits from other browsers.

    Why doesn't anyone mention Opera when talking about browsers anyway?

    Stuart, UK
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