Firefox 3 Release Date June 17 10AM PDT: download for world record attempt

The article wrote earlier today was about the release candidate 3 of Firefox, if your looking for the full release this will be today (June 17) at 10AM PDT and you can download Mozilla Firefox 3 for your part in the world record attempt. Many users have been trying to find out when the official release is and if you want a count down then just match your local time to the information below.

The UK will be able to get Firefox 3 at 6PM and in the US it’s coming at 10AM PDT as stated above. Some users have been up early in the United States waiting for the download and have said “If things don’t go up soon, this whole world record business is down the drain”, I am sure Mozilla know what they are doing and this download and record attempt has been planned for sometime.

Leading up to today’s Firefox 3 release we have seen pledges from many different countries with the UK, Japan, US and Spain all getting over 50,000 pledges. New features in the Official release of Firefox 3.0 include a smart location bar that allows you to type words and they match against your history, your also able to bookmark the sites by just clicking the button at the right of the smart location bar.

If you click the favicon icon next to the URL of the site your looking at, you will get information about that site, although some sites will not have any information about them. Some other features you can get here is information on how many times you have visited this site and a lot more that is dependent sometimes on the website. British Airways even shows you who runs and designed the website.

We all know that Firefox 2 added Phishing protection and now Mailware protection has been added to Firefox 3, this will help protect you in many ways that you did not have in previous versions of Firefox. You can now click to see downloads from the browser with one-click just at the bottom of the browser and you will also find lots of new features that have been added to your download section.

We now have just two hours to go before the worldwide release of Firefox 3; will you help set a new software download record?