17 Jun 08 Firefox 3 Download Day
Firefox three downloads start at 13:00 EDT. More than 1.6 million people have pledged to get a copy today. The record for the previous full release was 1.3 million on the first day.
I’m not going to try and get myself in any kind of record book or league table, but I shall be getting my copy as soon as I can, as like many folks it’s my default browser, and I avoid using Internet Explorer except to test pages when I’ve built a new web site.
Firefox is continuing to make steady inroads into Internet Explorer. Unlike Internet Explorer, most Firefox users keep their copies up to date. Many Internet Explorer users are still using IE6 and IE7, which are both hopelessly non-compliant.
As most web designers know, pages written to conform to current W3C standards often look awful in IE6 and 7 without tweaking of CSS. IE8 supposedly addresses some of this non-compliancy, but I can’t ever help wondering why Microsoft didn’t do a decent job on IE in the first place; after all they sit around the W3C table when the standards are being formulated and ratified.
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How true with the Microsoft issue… but how long have we ALL been crying about that? hmmmmMMmmm…. *shrugs* FF3 is nice.. solid.. but we were to expect anything less?
John K
How true with the Microsoft issue… but how long have we ALL been crying about that? hmmmmMMmmm…. *shrugs* FF3 is nice.. solid.. but we were to expect anything less?
John K
What I can never truly get my head around, and without having an anti-Microsoft rant, why is it that Open Source software such as Firefox can be released as a solid product with comparatively few nasties, and yet products from a huge corporation such as Microsoft are always way behind schedule, and full of major bugs?
What I can never truly get my head around, and without having an anti-Microsoft rant, why is it that Open Source software such as Firefox can be released as a solid product with comparatively few nasties, and yet products from a huge corporation such as Microsoft are always way behind schedule, and full of major bugs?