Mozilla Firefox development groups announced a new version of Firefox3 After 34 months of development, will be released on June 17 and open to download on the same day, is expected to attract over 2 million people in the first day of the download, this end, Mozilla download specially held on (Download Day), with a view to attract more downloads, a “single-most downloaded software on the” Guinness Book of World Records.

It is understood, Firefox 3 using the new Gecko 1.9 platform, is the first test by the ACID2 browser Visão Geral, higher compatibility and painted accuracy, improve security, provide more personalized features, the use of new jemalloc Memory recovery, solve the memory leak (memory leak) problem, enhanced performance and increased stability, and to provide additional API to enable more developers to participate in the development of Firefox’s plug-in expansion.

Graphics processing, Gecko 1.9 Cairo for a next-generation graphics engine, to provide better image processing performance, consistency and more graphics performance. In addition, because Cairo does not support Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows NT 4.0 and the older version, Firefox 3 will not be in the implementation of the operating system. Similarly, Mac version of Firefox 3 will only run on Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and will use the original Cocoa components.

In addition, Firefox 3 through enhanced JavaScript engine and the best features of the guidelines (profile guided optimizations) to improve performance, Mozilla Firefox 3 that the implementation of Google Mail and Zoho Office, and other network applications than Firefox 2 have twice the performance increases. Firefox 3 SQLite database for the use of user bookmarks, history, and cookie parameters, such as information storage interface, effectively enhance the efficiency of implementation.

According to Net Applications 5 previous survey figures, Firefox browser market share of 18.41 percent, after Rui not following the reduction of the Microsoft Internet Explorer, the No. 3 spot for Apple’s Safari, to 6.25 percent market share.

Mozilla will be held around the world-I wish parties, and has released Download Day website, with a view to attract more downloads. Readers can go to the Download Day website http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/, registered as participants, and in June 17 to download Firefox 3, with a “single-most downloaded software on the” Guinness Book World Record!