17 June 2008

Firefox 3 Release!!

Everyone,

First off, I haven't really had much time to compose the next installment of the series. Another thing is that I had issues with Vista and USB Keyboard drivers (apparently I'm not alone with that one...Vista and USB just don't get along).

Second, everyone who uses (and those of you who don't should really check it out) Firefox need to update to Firefox 3.0 today!! Mozilla is trying to set a world record for those downloading the new version at www.mozilla.com. Currently, the record is set at 1,653,061 - not bad since they wanted to have 1 million within 24 hours. That's 1.65 million in about four hours!!! The interface is extremely smooth, and the memory resource issue has been resolved. In short, web browsing is much smoother, and Firefox doesn't consume near as many resources as 2.0.0.14 did. In a few days, I'll post a how-to on speeding up rendering and web browsing. Since Firefox is open-source, users can go through and actually alter code and attributes to their liking. In this way, a user can actually allow for multiple web pages to load (as many as the user wants to determine, within reason) and other such issues. But I'll post all of that either later this week or early next week. Have fun, and everyone download some Firefox goodness!

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