That recent release of Firefox 3 seems to have earned Mozilla, maker of Firefox, a new Guinness World Record. claims over 8 million copies of the new browser were downloaded in a 24 hour period. At first, the release and download got off to a rocky start, when Mozilla’s site was intermittent.

Overall, now has over 19% of the browser market. Internet Explorer is down to 74%. I seem to recall not that many years ago when IE had 96% or so of the market. This is a much healthier situation.

Don’t rush to download or use Firefox 3. Bugs were found in it when it was barely a few hours old. Others claim that Firefox 3 security is actually weaker than Firefox 2. Mozilla will continue to support Firefox 2 until December, so you can wait a while for the dust to settle, then go for Firefox 3.

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