With the much anticipated release of Firefox 3, Mozilla also wants to set a Guiness Record of the “most downloaded software in 24 hours”. I think that is put just plain stupidly, but nevertheless, if you’re a Firefox fan, why not? You can visit the Spread Firefox site and offer your pledge to download Firefox [...]

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One of the new interesting features in Firefox 3 is the revamped add-ons manager that now recommends add-ons that are compatible to the users Firefox version. It would be interesting to see how many Firefox 2 users are actually running the browser without any add-ons installed and how this will change with the release of [...]

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The first release candidate of Firefox 3 has been finally published on the Mozilla Firefox website and users of previous Beta versions seem to get an update notification already asking them to update to the latest version. The release notes do not give specific information about the changes and features that have been implemented in [...]

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There are several ways that allow you to test Firefox 3 without interfering with Firefox 2 if that browser is also installed on your system. If you simply install the regular Firefox 3 version it will use the same profile folder which means that it will check all add-ons for compatibility and Firefox 2 will [...]

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I have not done any tests lately that would reveal the speed of each of the new upcoming browsers. The latest official builds have been tested, they are at the time of the test: Opera 9.5 build 9815/1834, Firefox 3 Gran Paradiso beta 4 and Internet Explorer 8 beta 1. I have been using the Webwait application for this test which monitors page loading times of pages that you select.

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