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With Firefox 3 nearly ready for primetime, and as Netscape is formally
no more, Mozilla celebrates over half a billion Firefox downloads with
a program to donate free rice to the poor.
Mozilla’s official community marketing site for Firefox, called Spread Firefox, has celebrated the 500 millionth download of the successor to the Netscape browser: Firefox.
The magic milestone comes not long after Firefox launched Firefox 3 beta 3, a version of the browser recommended for testers only, but happily by myself, and many others, in preference to the older, but still officially current, Firefox 2.
The Spread Firefox site has a statement which is headed “500+ Million Celebration” and which reads as follows: “In honor of the 500 million download mark we're celebrating by raising 500,000,000 grains of rice in one day to help feed the world's poor”.
The statement continues: “Since we have reached the milestone, it is time to flock to freerice.com and attempt to push the days total over 1/2 billion. This is just a foreshadow to where one day Firefox will be”.
Spread Firefox then explains that users can help feed the poor with rice, concluding their statement with: “Food for thought, uh, better yet, Food for Lives; if we reach 500 million grains of rice, that's a direct contribution in feeding 25,000 people for one day! Donate now, http://freerice.com”.
A T-shirt competition to mark the impeding release of Firefox 3 is also promoted at the Spread Firefox site, with the winner set to become the official Firefox T-shirt in the Mozilla store.
As noted, the Firefox 3 browser is shaping up to be the best version yet, promising more than 1300 improvements, faster operation, less memory usage and an improved design.
Worthwhile alternatives to Firefox include the Opera browser and Maxthon, and while Opera in particular has had great success not only on the desktop, but on mobile phones and the Nintendo Wii games console, Firefox is still seen as the biggest threat to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
So, if you’re still only using Internet Explorer, be it version 6 or 7, don’t wait for IE 8, try Firefox, Opera, Maxthon or all three - and see the web through a whole new window!
David Bass
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