With last weeks’ rollout of Firefox 3, Mozilla has once again delivered a smooth, and integrated browsing experience.
New interface design is more user-friendly, the browser is more stable, and also appear to hog less memory, a common complaint of users of Firefox 2, particularly on Macs.

Interestingly, many of Firefox’s famous add-ons are still compatible with the new release. And many of those plugins are Web 2.0 plugins, harnessing social networking and social media tools.

Available immediately as a free download, the browser comes in approximately 50 languages and culminates a three-year effort on the part of thousands of developers, security experts, and testers from around the world. Reports from Mozilla highlight how popular the browser has become - the network at its peak served 17,000 downloads per minute, or 283 per second, and had sustained download rates in excess of 4,000 a minute, he said.

“We’re really proud of Firefox 3 and it just shows what a committed, energized global community can do when they work together,” said Mozilla chief executive John Lilly. (Apple Insider)