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This is a fox. He’s on fire. “Whoosh!”… if you like.
Mind you, he can’t be enjoying that…. This week a new world record was set by over 8 million people… not for setting foxes on fire, but for all downloading the same application to their computers within the one 24 hour period - that application being the hotly anticipated Firefox 3. (Frankly, I never understood, at the time, where exactly they got the name Firefox from… it was originally called “Phoenix”, and then “Firebird” - which made sense, as it was a sort-of phoenix from the flames;- a rebirth of the browser… but some people complained, notably Phoenix Software and the Firebird Free Database Software project people, so “Firefox” it became and remained. It’s certainly unique anyway…) [More history here]. |
Anyway… Firefox 3 was launched onto a very-much suspecting world this past week, and I joined the many millions who downloaded it on “Download Day”, setting a new world record in the process for most downloads in 24 hours.
As Ruairi and, I’m sure, many others have blogged - it’s quite bloody good and there are, apparently, plenty of reasons you can’t live without it.
Of course, all that aside … well … it’s just a piece of software, and the fact that I’m writing about it here does mean that I have feck-all going on and so have very little to say right now. Feck. Rumbled.
In other news, I never realised Google was that massive either.
Ahem… Normal blogging service will resume soon.