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[jmr]

well if you dont already know its going to start on the 17/06/08 so if you dont already use firefox its time to upgrade now & get yourself the best browser on the web

Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period.

Download Day - as Mozilla dubs it - will begin the minute Firefox 3 is generally available and continue for 24 hours. Ahead of this release, expected in mid-to-late June, Mozilla has set up a website (spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord). This encourages people to organise Download Day parties, to run around collecting sign-up pledges at their university or place of work, and to place Download Day buttons on their websites.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

[Devil_Spawn]

bah. opera ftw.

[kkan]

bah. opera ftw.

I like OPERA too but anything to pi## microsoft and bill gates off with his lame browser is good for me 

will download for a spare  :p

[socket]

They're getting crushed... if you just want to download it, you can get it here... for now: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Mozilla-Firefox-Final.shtml

[DeVS]

Getting it now, can't wait!

[sonicwind]

opera can't compare to firefox 3.0
get it now.

[DeVS]

There already closing in on 3 million downloads in only like 9hrs,lol.

[socket]

Yeah and a lot of people I know got it from alternative sources!

[Doggy124]

Downloaded 

The funny thing is I just talked with my friend that I use FF3 RC3 and it never crash, then as soon as I finished DL the FF3final, my RC3 Crash

[ZzzZilla]

What kind of business model do these free web browsers adopt? They sell licenses for corporations to use?

[DeVS]

In 2006 they made $72 million.

Mozilla makes money. They make millions of dollars. Not bad for a free software foundation, eh?

How does it work? Well they have a partnership with Google.

    Google pays Mozilla an amount for each user that performs a Google search from Firefox. Exactly how much Google pays, we don’t know for sure but I’d wager that it’s somewhere in the range of 1 cent to 5 cents per click.

Mozilla then made Google as the default search engine on all Mozilla FireFox downloads. It is the default web page once you open up the browser. Since searching for information is one of the most common activities on the Internet, almost all FireFox would simply use the default search interface. More income for Mozilla there

[socket]

Cool, I never realized that google paid them.

[Devil_Spawn]

opera can't compare to firefox 3.0
get it now.

i used RC3, i bet thats close to final

didnt see anything opera beating.