Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Google Chrome, Open Source Browser from Google

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Google has announced that they will be launching an open source web browser of their own. Google Chrome, as it will be known should be, according to the official Google Blog available for download some time today (Tuesday, 02.09.2008).

Funnily enough, Google Chrome was revealed to the world when Google by mistake sent some comic books detailing the browser ahead of time to a few blogs and tech sites. And yes, they really revealed their browser in a comic book.

The new browser takes elements from both Firefox and WebKit and is fully open source.

According to the Mozilla Foundation’s John Lilly, the new Google browser will not affect Firefox’s relationship with Google.

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75% of visitors use Firefox 3.0

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Well, not quite.  75% of my visitors using Firefox use Firefox 3.0.  Overall, 60% of my visitors use Firefox.  The statistics are:

  1. Firefox (60%)
  2. Internet Explorer (27%)
  3. Safari (8%)
  4. Opera (5%)

And the Firefox versions?

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Firefox 3 to be Released on June 17. RC3 available now.

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Mozilla has now confirmed that Firefox 3.0 will be officially available on June 17th 2008.

“After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready,” the message says. “It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th.”

Firefox 3.0rc3 has also been made available and it should be the last release candidate released before June 17th.  Only a really serious, unexpected, “show-stopper bug” would change the release date.

mozillaZine [via ZDnet]

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Firefox 3.0rc2 Released

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Firefox 3.0rc2 download page

With this latest release, Firefox 3.0 inches towards a final version.  Don’t expect this to have any new features, rather look for better stability and bug fixes.

Mozilla [via Download Squad]

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Firefox Going For Guinness World Record

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Download Day - English

Mozilla is going to attempt a world record on the most software downloaded in 24 hours on the release day of Firefox 3.  Spread Firefox is asking participants to pledge to download on the day of release.  The event is going by the name of Download Day 2008.

[Spread Firefox via Slashdot]

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