Jon Hicks, designer of Firefox, sells his old Mac G5, which the Firefox logo has been created. This G5 is powered by the 1.6ghz G5 processor and 160 GB hard drive, 1.5GB of RAM, and the Leopard operating system. It also comes with 17-inch Formac Gallery display ADC connector, which means that it is linked directly into the G5 with no extra plug. He wants to sell the G5: £ 250 ($ 500). (via)
Firefox 3, the long-awaited update, the Mozilla open source web browser, was released earlier today. Download counter, which is projected on a large display screen here in the Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View, CA, has been churning numbers are rapidly throughout the morning. The display shows that Firefox has now exceeded the 1 million downloads, which between 5000 and 14000 downloads Friday minute.
Fast, the pace of the downloads are occurring difficult to calculate the exact total. The counter seems to be lagging behind the actual count, and Mozilla’s statisticians say that the number could be as high as 3 million in just four hours after the Firefox’s official launch. Users will be able to follow along at home watching only at the official site.
A friend of mind to say that IE is no longer a favorite browser is a World, Firefox does not.
The browser manufacturer wants to set a Guinness World Record for the next version of Firefox become available to consumers. It does not appear in Firefox 2 came to the Mozilla all that long ago.
Now we have to understand that the least, when the change comes here soon. This may include the amount of data download business tool. Mozilla certainly hopes that is not. To promote Firefox 3, and, perhaps, to win the spot, together with some high-result, they are trying to participants for their Firefox Download 3 a day.
The date is determined, Mozilla will try to show that the World Record number of downloaders, the latest browser, which will last 24 hours. Download Day of the site shows how many people have promised to make a download per country.
Quick, secure, the performance together with the new features will become part of the Firefox browser 3. Prevent any late changes to Download a day has been made in June, a record of the inspection Guinness, which requires about one week, Mozilla said.
