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Firefox 3.5 was officially released yesterday, and it’s already doing nicely. In fact, as MG Siegler at TechCrunch pointed out, it was being downloaded at a rate of nearly 100 downloads per minute yesterday. You can see how it’s doing for yourself at the Mozilla download tracker. In terms of individual countries, the United States is the only country with more than a million downloads. Germany, Japan, France and the United Kingdom round out the top 5.
Seth Rosenblatt at CNET said the latest Firefox “represents the best Firefox we’ve yet seen from Mozilla.” There are some new features; this is the first Firefox to have the Private Browsing feature, which keeps private information from being stored in the browser’s cache and history. If that’s going too far, there’s also an option to clear your browsing history. In Firefox 3.5, you can specify about how long you’d like to erase the records…
Las Vegas is hosting yet another tech conference this week. This time it’s MIX09, a Web development conference hosted by Microsoft at the Venetian Hotel. Between thrasing fake guitar riffs in the Rock Band elimination tournament and snacking on free food, developers will get to attend workshops and listen to keynote speeches delivered by Microsoft bigwigs. This morning, Dean Hachamovitch will be one of those keynote speakers. Hachamovitch leads the team responsible for the design, development and release of Internet Explorer 8.
IE8 has been out in the wild for a while now. First you could download it as a beta build and later as a release candidate. But this morning everyone expects Hachamovitch to announce that the final build for IE8 will debut online today. It’s free to download, so expect Microsoft’s servers to get crazy amounts of traffic later on.
In a recent test performed by CNET UK, Internet Explorer 8 proved to be about 6.7 times faster than its predecessor, IE 7.
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