Firefox 3
Firefox 3 has finally been released. The Mozilla Foundation set to break a world record with the largest number of downloads within a 24 hour period. It started Tuesday at 1:00PM Eastern, with the Firefox blog reporting consistently about 14,000 downloads/minute. What's even more incredible is the report on their web traffic which is said to have been pushed "well over 2 Gigabits a second of just pure HTTP traffic...in addition to 13 Gigabits a second or so of download traffic."[http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/]
Download day is over and the world is waiting for Guinness to validate the more than 8 million recorded downloads within 24 hours. Web developers everywhere are looking forward to having a secure standards compliant cross-platform browser with majority market share. With this massive boost of downloads, and the Colbert Bump, there's no doubt in my mind that we will finally be able to build standards compliant sites and applications before having to deal with or even think about hacks and proprietary code to satisfy a diminishing IE crowd.
It's just another example of a community overthrowing a corporate monopoly, and one more step toward a global community where knowledge and information is free and abundant, corruption and success cannot exist together, and everyone is on an equal plane with equal opportunity regardless of [anything].
Now that download day is over Firefox 3 will soon be pushed through as an update for previous versions of Firefox.
