Did you hear about Mozila Design Challenge? No? This is a contest organized by Mozila Labs to design the home tab in the coming Firefox 4.0 version. The contest is just about over and we can have a look on the People's Choice Awards. Here are the Top 10 voted concepts chosen by 3000 people from the wide internet community. On the 15th of March 2010 the best in Class honors will be announced. So Do not forget to check it out!
Do you want to know how the Firefox 3.6 release looked from behind the sceens? Check the video from the release day and observe how the Firefox company is tracking the downloads! Can you believe that since the release day, 7 days ago, there have been 21 million Firefox 3.6 dowloads. Is't it amzing?
It wasn’t probably a big surprise. In the last month of
2009, Google Chrome (4.63% share) became world’s 3rd most popular browser and took over Apple’s Safari (4.46%).
Internet Explorer market share decreased from 63.62% to 62.69%.
Firefox lost some of the share, falling from 24.72% to 24.61%.
Google Chrome increased its market share to 4.63%. Safari went up as well, from 4.36% to 4.46%.
Thanks to the launch of Opera 10.50 pre-alpha, this browser increased it's market share and has now 2.40%.
Firefox 3.5.7 had 3 bug fixes (where one was a major crasher), while version 3.0.17 has 2 issues fixed (the same as 3.5.7, except for a major crasher).
Recently Mozila released 2 updates for Firefox 3.5 and the older version 3.0. Both
versions include several stability and security improvements. Firefox
3.5.6 received 62 bug fixes and Firefox 3.0.16 – 24. As usual we recommended to use latest stable version of Firefox. You can download it here .
Five years ago Mozila launched Firefox 1.0. Just within the first four days of the launch more than 1 million people downloaded the new browser. In just five years this number grew to more than 330 million users worldwide. Today almost 25% of all Internet users are using Firefox to browse the Internet. Thanks to it's great functionality and revolutionary ideas like add-ons Firefox became one of the most popular browsers around the globe. Watch the video to see how Firefox became so popular. Happy Birthday Firefox!!!
As Firefox's 3.6 release is getting closer, Mozilla just finished one more stability update for Firefox 3.5. Version 3.5.5 fixes a total of 5 bugs and can be downloaded from the following location.
It wasn’t probably a big surprise. In the last month of
2009, Google Chrome (4.63% share) became world’s 3rd most popular browser and took over Apple’s Safari (4.46%).
