Get your Firefox on: Firefox Download Day

Just a reminder, as Robert hinted half an hour ago today is "Download Day" for Firefox 3. If you haven't yet downloaded the official 3.0 release, be sure to do it today! Firefox is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. At 10 AM PDT (1:00 PM EDT) head over here to get your official download. Note: Only downloads from Mozilla's official site count towards the record.

It's not all about Mozilla's pride, really! Firefox 3 will bring many changes for all Mac users (mostly good), as this is the first release of Firefox that is built primarily using Cocoa for the underlying Gecko 1.9 engine (a project that's been in the works for years). Along with better redraw speed (CoreGraphics vs. the older QuickDraw API) and improved memory handling, the new engine provides the groundwork for a pure-Cocoa, 64-bit clean version of Firefox in the future. Firefox 3's UI is more Maclike now, with Aqua-style widgets improving the view. You can read more about the architectural changes to Firefox 3 and Gecko 1.9 at developer Josh Aas' blog.

So head on over to Spread Firefox, we're sure you can't go wrong! If you're in the mood to party with the Firefox launch day crowd, check Mozilla's party site for activities near you.

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Adrian vG

As a web developer, if it doesn't auto-update, I don't dare downloading it, 'cuz that means there will be several other people with the older browser which may have rendering differences...

June 18 2008 at 5:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter

Firefox 3 rocks and is super fast as promised. Optimize your FF3 experience with Firefoxâ€™s recommended add-on, the Me.dium Social Toolbar. Find us on AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4365

Friend pjn, gfigg, and jenniferlauren so we can surf around together in Me.dium and talk about how Fx3 kicks @$$!! http://blogme.dium.com/content/2008/06/welcome-firefox-3-users

June 17 2008 at 6:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sir. Poopy Pants

I have no doubts that mozilla will spin this disaster into gold-plated propaganda.

"Our servers were straining to keep up with the demand for the best browser in the world!, or some such, or whatever."
-Fancy-pants Mozilla spokesperson

June 17 2008 at 5:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lucky

This is the Windows US version!

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

June 17 2008 at 4:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nate

Looks like its working, getfirefox.com is overloaded and unavailable!

June 17 2008 at 2:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

The actual site seems to be now up and running (well the EU one, the USA site is still down).

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

June 17 2008 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Erik Haug

This is hilarious! Now they have a new site that talks about firefox 3, but the download link is for 2.0.0.14. The image you click to download says "Firefox3...free download...2.0.0.14. WTF.

June 17 2008 at 2:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

boomer

I just got this to start downloading... not sure if its the right one or not - 15k/s

http://pj-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/mac/en-US/Firefox%203.0.dmg

June 17 2008 at 2:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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boomer

Never mind... old version

June 17 2008 at 2:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bcd

mozilla.com wesite was down (at least for me in Romania)
http://i32.tinypic.com/vhf7zo.jpg

June 17 2008 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike