During the first 24 hours of the launch of Firefox 3, Mozilla calculated more than 8 million downloads. Ten million was broken the day after that and already Firefox 3 has surpassed 25 million downloads. In fact, it’s well on the way to break 30 million soon. The launch of Firefox 3 has been a tremendous success, and so far it’s the Americans and the Germans who are the most notorious downloaders. Before the launch, Mozilla developers announced that some of the features that was dropped in favor of other, more critical, features will be implemented with the next version, Firefox 3.1.
Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 should released in about two weeks, with beta in late August and final 3.1 in late Q4. Some of the most talked about features was the proposed implementation of Ctrl+Tab, but whether it will make it to the final version or not remains to be seen. It will feature the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering engine, updated Places with lightweight tagging interface, download history integrated and plenty of other things.
We will keep you posted on when the first Firefox 3.1 Alpha becomes available.
