Chris Schiffner’s Corner of the Web

After a tumultuous morning I was finally able to download Mozilla’s Firefox 3. This version has been greatly anticipated because it has tremendous improvements over its previous versions in two key areas; Memory Management and Rendering. So far Firefox has been using roughly 1/3 the memory it would previously use. It is also freeing up memory much faster, and in greater percentages on page changes. Thus far I have not had memory usage “run-away” on me as I had with ff2 (memory consumption would continue to grow at an alarming rate until it filled roughly 700-800MB of ram at which point it would crash).
Many people are still unable to download directly from Mozilla’s servers because their marketing ploy worked a little too well. Starting around noon EST the Moz servers response times started to severely lag. By release time, 1pm EST, the servers were reporting “http/1.1 service unavailable”. Its an unfortunate consequence of the browsers popularity. Until sometime next week ff2 users will not be offered a new version via automatic updates. To download Firefox 3 got to: http://getfirefox.com. If that fails try this link: Un-Official Firefox 3 Download.

Assuming the Moz servers remain up today, we might have a new Guiness Book record! (well, by new, I mean really new … no record for “most downloads” currently exists).