Jun 18 2008
Firefox 3
I don’t follow browser development that closely. I know there are some who download nightly builds and all that, but I guess I have things to do.
Anyway, Mozilla put on quite a little song and dance to promote their Firefox browser recently. A lot of sites had news about how they were trying to set a world record for downloads in a day. The whole thing seemed silly to me. I’m a huge fan of the browser, but even I scoffed at that PR stunt.
The hype was there and so were the downloaders. I got my copy right at launch, downloaded at ~40kBps, dreadfully slow. It seems Mozilla couldn’t handle the bandwidth. Haha. I couldn’t help put laugh. Be careful what you wish for, Mozilla.
As for the browser, I like it. There aren’t that many obvious changes, but enough to warrant a new version number (3, in this case). The bookmark organization/tagging/searching is interesting. But really, the thing that bugged me so far is the fact that all of my auto-complete information was deleted (or it just isn’t compatible). That stuff came in handy when filling out forms all the time.