Join the Firefox 3 Download Guinness World Record

[SLCPUNK]

It's nice and fast, I like it.

[tim_m]

Firefox 3 Vulnerability Found

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080619/tc_pcworld/147277

At least we know we won't have to wait a whole month for them to get around to fixing it like microsoft.

[Genesis]

Wow, they got 8 million downloads in 24 hrs. To think they were aiming for 5!

[tim_m]

yeah over 8 million thats incredible. I didn't expect that much either.

[Atillla]

40 minutes on java chat, 180MB RAM and 30% CPU usage...on a very fast PC, yep they solved the system hog issues.....not 

[tim_m]

40 minutes on java chat, 180MB RAM and 30% CPU usage...on a very fast PC, yep they solved the system hog issues.....not 

Either your computer isn't as fast as you say it is or the java chat you use has some serious shoddy coding. I was just on Jmeeting.com for an hour which is a webcam chat site written completely in java. I had 3 cams open and a chat room as well as a second browser window open the ram usage never got above 112 unless i had the second window open then it was around 117-118 unless i was at myspace or espn or watching a youtube video then it got to just over 130. My cpu usage consistently was around 10% with only spikes higher then that.

[Chief]

Java is a notorious resource hog, so most likely that's the problem.

[Genesis]

40 minutes on java chat, 180MB RAM and 30% CPU usage...on a very fast PC, yep they solved the system hog issues.....not 

Firefox 3 memory usage benchmark

Written by Samuel Simon   
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 01:47

Most memory efficient browser on the market

As we all know, the previous versions of Firefox weren't very memory efficient; sometimes the browser would use more than 400MB after few hours if you visited script and image intensive pages and used multiple tabs.

This bug was reported by many users to Mozilla, but they didn't fix it until now. In 2006 they made a historical statement that a memory leak is not a bug, but a feature.

It seems that Mozilla managed to fix Firefox's nasty habit to hog memory, and according to benchmarks, Firefox 3 is the most efficient browser on the market. Compared to Flock 1.2, which is based on Firefox 2, Firefox 3 has 50% better results and memory usage almost never goes over 120MB.

Opera 9.50 performed better than Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, and the worst performer on the test was Safari, which at end of the test used over 600MB. The tests were conducted after more than two hours of work under Windows and memory usage was recorded every 3 seconds, so we can now see from real-world usage how Firefox 3 compared to other browsers on the market.

[tim_m]

Its true. I've rarely seen it get above 120-130. I have to be doing a lot to get it higher.

[cotis]

I've been suffering through 180K+ the past couple days with FF3, hovering around 40-50% PC Usage. All I'm using is FF3, have uTorrent open but not running.

Really sucks :/

[Genesis]

That's it Folks!

Firefox download record official

By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

So far there have been more than 28 million downloads of Firefox 3.0

Mozilla has officially made history with a new Guinness world record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period.

The final record breaking 8,002,530 downloads for Firefox 3.0 took place in June with parties in over 25 countries.

"The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen" said Marketing head Paul Kim.

Gareth Deaves of Guinness World Records called it "an extremely impressive accomplishment".

The official figure was confirmed after logs from download servers were audited and checked to ensure duplicate and unfinished downloads were not counted.

Mr Kim told the BBC: "The notion of going for a world record, as gooky and nutty as it may have sounded, was a really sticky idea.

"It was an idea that translated really well across national borders and to all different kinds of people around the world."

Marketing manager Mary Colvig said no party is planned to celebrate the record until the actual certificate is presented by Guinness World Records in London next week.

"Here at Mozilla headquarters (in Mountain View) I think most of us are just going to try and get to bed early now that we have the confirmation. We are all tired."

Security flaw

On launch day some of the shine was taken by security firms claiming to have found the first flaws in the new software.

Within five hours of Firefox 3.0 making its debut, DV Labs/Tipping Point reported a flaw that potentially let an attacker take over a PC if a user clicks on a booby-trapped link.

Mr Kim told the BBC "Firefox users are safe. We have a patch in the works and hope to release it very soon."

mozilla hq at end of the download day
Mozilla says the number of downloads surpassed their expectations

Another potentially disastrous glitch ahead of the world record attempt came when servers handling the downloads collapsed under the weight of visitors checking to see if the new version of the browser was available.

Once they were all up and running the clock started counting down.

At their busiest the servers were handling more than 9,000 downloads per minute. Within five hours the number of downloads for Version 3.0 exceeded the 1.6 million set by Firefox 2.0 in October 2006.

Market share increase

Another boost for the open source browser comes with the announcement that it has boosted its market share to over 19% making it the second most popular browser after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or IE.

Net Applications says a chunk of the gain seems to have come from rival IE, although much of the growth came in users upgrading.

The company said while IE reached a record low last month, it predicted Firefox will break the 20% share bar sometime this month.

Mr Kim said "We offer the best browsing experience and this shows people are getting the message and voting with their browser choice."

Meanwhile Mozilla has shipped a high priority update for Firefox 2.0, warning that there are at least five serious vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks.

Mr Kim said Mozilla will continue to support Firefox 2.0 until the middle of December.

After that users will be expected to switch over to Firefox 3.0 which since its launch over two weeks ago boasts 28 million downloads and counting.

[Chief]

strange! do you have any add ons, its probably one of them.  or maybe you're leaving the program running for long stretches of time.

I've been suffering through 180K+ the past couple days with FF3, hovering around 40-50% PC Usage. All I'm using is FF3, have uTorrent open but not running.

Really sucks :/

[tim_m]

That's really odd. The only times i've come to about 180 is when i have a java site open and mlb gameday which uses flash i think other then that i max out around 150 and it takes awhile to get to even that.