Internet metrics firm Net Applications may be able to confirm Firefox 3.5's growth, if not its numbers, tomorrow. Pacific, followed by Germany with more than 260,000, France with 110,000, and the U.K. led all countries on Mozilla's real-time download counter, with nearly 600,000 by 3:35 p.m. In October 2006, Mozilla said it recorded 1.6 million downloads of Firefox 2.0 on that version's launch day.
Last year, Mozilla said that more than 8.3 million copies of Firefox 3.0 had been downloaded in the first 24 hours of its availability, in part because of the aggressively promoted Download Day, an attempt by Mozilla to set a single-day download record that it hoped would be sanctioned by the Guinness World Records organization. Although many of the new features are available with plug-ins anyway, this is still a rip-roaring browser and consolidates Firefox’s position as the best browser on the market by miles."But it looks like we're not too far off Download Day's numbers," Beltzner said. Whilst the recently released Internet Explorer 7 is only just introducing tabbed browsing, Firefox 2.0 is already taking internet surfing to a new level. This resulted in frequent crashes, keyboard head-banging and violent swearing.
The legendary memory leak also still doesn’t seem to have been fixed as Firefox continues to guzzle processing power. The extension incompatibility issue is the main drawback although this will change as developers update their plugins over the coming weeks and months. The automatic session retrieval option (previously available with the Tab Mix Plus plugin) is also a tonic when your system crashes or you’ve got too many tabs open and Firefox cripples under the strain. One of the most useful features we found was a predictive search function within the Google toolbar that would suggest potential phrases and popular search terms as you typed. Other goodies include enhanced tabbed browsing (each with their own close option finally), the ability to un-close tabs, search plug-in/add-on manager, and much, much more.
Amongst the security highlights of 2.0 are anti-phishing support which helps the browser discriminate between genuine websites and those intended to store and retrieve your personal information.
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