Firefox 3 - Get it now! (6 million others already have …)
June 18th, 2008
Yesterday around 1pm Eastern Standard Time, Mozilla officially released version three of their popular Firefox web browser. I’m a long-time Firefox user, and I’ve been using a beta version of Firefox 3 for a little while now, since it was installed by default when I upgraded to the newest version of Ubuntu Linux. It didn’t take long at all for me to begin to appreciate the many improvements in the latest iteration of Firefox.
Back in the early days of Firefox it held many clear advantages over its primary competitor, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. These days, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Firefox have all come a long way, and each has some very compelling merits. I’ve used all three and in my experience this newest version of Firefox is on top of the heap.
For the past 17 years the Ford F-150 pickup truck has been the best selling vehicle in the country. But the times are ‘a changing and last month’s sales figures are a dramatic reflection of this. During the month of May, the Ford F-150 dropped from first to fifth place in overall vehicles sold. Ouch.