Firefox - a world record breaking open source project
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| After many years of championing standards compliance, the icing on the cake
| for the volunteer developers at Mozilla has to be the fact that they can now
| rightly claim to be the most popular browser amongst the digirati. Why? The
| release of Firefox 3 on June 17 2008 generated slightly over 8,000,000
| downloads over a 24 hour period, propelling the browser into the Guinness
| World Records as the single most popular one day download ever.
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http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/live/articles/firefox--a-world-record-breaking-open-source-proj.asp/4909/
http://tinyurl.com/6l4huk
Pencil Turns Firefox into a Drawing Tool
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| Just when I think I’ve seen everything that you can do in Firefox, along
| comes an add-on like Pencil (Firefox 3 required). By coupling the Gecko
| drawing engine with the ability to display, save, and load an external
| canvas, together with a palette of shapes, Pencil installs an entire drawing
| application into your Firefox browser.
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http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/04/pencil-turns-firefox-into-a-drawing-tool/
Recent:
How Can We Harness the Firefox Effect?
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| Three things are striking about the recent launch of Firefox 3. First, the
| unanimity about the quality of the code: practically everyone thinks it's
| better in practically every respect. Secondly, the way in which the
| mainstream media covered its launch: it was treated as a normal, important
| tech story – gone are the days of supercilious anecdotes about those wacky,
| sandal-wearing free software anoraks. And finally – and perhaps most
| importantly - the scale and intensity of participation by the millions of
| people who have downloaded the software in the last week.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-can-we-harness-firefox-effect
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