Mozilla has finally set a date for the official launch of Firefox 3 - which open sourcers hope will set a world record for most ever downloads in a day.

Firefox 3.0 will be ready for download from next Tuesday - 17 June. The browser claims to be quicker, more stable and to make it easier to set bookmarks.

Mozilla hopes to get at least 1.6 million downloads within 24 hours and set a new Guinness world record. It hopes Firefox fanboys and girls will organise parties and get people to sign pledges to download the browser. Mozilla claims to have received over 40,000 pledges from the UK and more than 180,000 from the US.

Release Candidates of the software have been tested over the last few weeks.

Firefox accounts for some 20 to 30 per cent of browser market share, depending on whose figures you believe. It is the most popular of the alternative browsers - those that are not pre-installed on PCs.

There's more on the record attempt here: Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

I've already signed up for it, so get a move on.

Firefox 3 downloads hit 7m despite server FAIL

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Well I'm running it and I must say it's faster than 2.
The only issue I had was with a couple of extensions, but I simply grabbed an alt.

So when are you going to install FF3??

Come on people!

Can I do it with windows vista? I have a hard enough time with it that I get all crazy thinking of something else that can add to the fire...
Gosh you are pushy pushy... ;)

I got it. Love my Firefox.

What are some handy extensions to download and run Ben? I'm a fairly simple (generally just browsing) user but always open to improvement.

One of my faves is Fasterfox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269
This turbo charges you connection.

Now the problem is it needs tweaking to work with FF3.
Not to worry I've already done it ;)

All you need to do is drop it into the extensions window and it'll install.

Tools > Add-ons > drag and drop.
It's available here: http://homepage.mac.com/brossow/fast...-MODforFF3.xpi

And a rather fun one, especially if you surt a load of sites is Flagfox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5791

Now this doesn't really do much, but shows you where the sites server is based with a little falg in the status bar.
Interesting to know and kind of pretty ;)

Anything thing else ?

Thanks Ben.

So your saying all I need to do is click the link above, save it to my PC and drag and drop the file to my Firefox add-ons? Cool! Cheers.

Nothing else at this stage thanks mate. Ill have a play!

FireFox 3 has now been downloaded 19 million times!

FireFox 3 hits 19 million downloads

I got it. I hope I don't run into any problems. I don't have a clue what to do with computers these days.

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Can I do it with windows vista?

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Yep. Ihave FF3 on my Vista computer and on my laptop that has XP and Ubuntu.

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Originally Posted by Curlyben

And a rather fun one, especially if you surt a load of sites is Flagfox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5791

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We have the same interests. :) I use Shazou for that purpose: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2993

Now that looks coool.