2008
Jun 
17

Firefox Download Day

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If you haven’t been using the beta of Firefox 3, then now is your chance to download the full release. As an additional incentive, Firefox is going for the world record in single-day downloads today. Give them a hand and download an installer today.

“Why should I?” you ask.

Well, for starters, it’s free. And I know that Internet Explorer is free, but it’s really not. See, Internet Explorer is closed-source, which means that it is difficult for developers to work with, and we can’t see the source code to fix things if there is a problem. It is also not very extensible.

Firefox, on the other hand, can be made to do almost anything. Don’t like those annoying ads that infiltrate your web content? Firefox has a plugin that removes them. Want to use Firefox to ftp content to a server somewhere? Yep. How about backing your bookmarks up to a secure remote location so that you can use them from anywhere? Already there.

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Firefox also gives you complete control over the cookies that it saves, how much data it keeps in the cache when you turn it off (like cookies, login and password info, and download info), and it is the best browser out there for blocking malicious content. Tabbed browsing was first used in Firefox as well.

Plus the logo is cool, isn’t it?

So, download it today and try it out, won’t you? You won’t be disappointed.

PS – This site looks fantastic in Firefox 3. If for no other reason, check it out.

[Update: the official "Download Day" will begin at 1pm EDT today]