Update on Firefox3's release and record
Jun 25, 2008 3:04:17 GMT
Post by CharlieChomper on Jun 25, 2008 3:04:17 GMT
In a weird way, it may be just as well that I didn't get a chance to post this earlier as there was another article posted today regarding it.
For those curious as to whether or not the Mozilla group set the record for most downloads within a 24-hour period, the answer is a definite yes. However, it proved so successful in terms of the volume of people downloading it, that their servers went offline for a period of about an hour (it also took out a few other sites the project runs off those same servers). However, they were able to get everything back up and running again within that hour, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. The number of downloads of FF3 for release day was listed at around 8.3 million.
Also, someone (LittleTurtle?) had commented on the memory management regarding Firefox3. The devs definitely did work on that area when developing it--especially given that FF2 went through a few cycles of memory leak issues that no one was happy about, including the maintainers. However, someone (not affiliated with the project in any way) independently decided upon running a test to check system resources and usage in relation to the different browsers running in Windows that are out there (at least, amongst the better known ones). Firefox3 did the best while Safari ranked as being, by far, the worst--especially when it came to memory usage. For those curious to read the results and the types of things which were looked into with this, you can do so here.
On that note, anyone who prefers the way the address bar had functioned in FF2 will be happy to know that someone has developed an extension for FF3 to allow for the address bar to function much like it did in Firefox2.
Edited because I don't know why I forgot this as well: To congratulate the Firefox team, IE's team (much as they did with the release of Firefox2) sent them a cake. What's somewhat amusing is that the Firefox team has kept the "e" logo from the second cake in the freezer all this time as a souvenir all this time. Mozilla's creative director, John Slater, took a photo of the new cake beside the slice kept from the old cake for anyone wishing to see the two next to one another.
For those curious as to whether or not the Mozilla group set the record for most downloads within a 24-hour period, the answer is a definite yes. However, it proved so successful in terms of the volume of people downloading it, that their servers went offline for a period of about an hour (it also took out a few other sites the project runs off those same servers). However, they were able to get everything back up and running again within that hour, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. The number of downloads of FF3 for release day was listed at around 8.3 million.
Also, someone (LittleTurtle?) had commented on the memory management regarding Firefox3. The devs definitely did work on that area when developing it--especially given that FF2 went through a few cycles of memory leak issues that no one was happy about, including the maintainers. However, someone (not affiliated with the project in any way) independently decided upon running a test to check system resources and usage in relation to the different browsers running in Windows that are out there (at least, amongst the better known ones). Firefox3 did the best while Safari ranked as being, by far, the worst--especially when it came to memory usage. For those curious to read the results and the types of things which were looked into with this, you can do so here.
On that note, anyone who prefers the way the address bar had functioned in FF2 will be happy to know that someone has developed an extension for FF3 to allow for the address bar to function much like it did in Firefox2.
Edited because I don't know why I forgot this as well: To congratulate the Firefox team, IE's team (much as they did with the release of Firefox2) sent them a cake. What's somewhat amusing is that the Firefox team has kept the "e" logo from the second cake in the freezer all this time as a souvenir all this time. Mozilla's creative director, John Slater, took a photo of the new cake beside the slice kept from the old cake for anyone wishing to see the two next to one another.
