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…and set a World Record

It’s an excit­ing time for the web world, with some big devel­op­ments com­ing up.

Fire­fox 3

If you haven’t tried Fire­fox, the web browser bet­ter than that other one, now is the time.

Fire­fox is a web browser that is faster, more secure, and cus­tomiz­able. And it’s free. The cur­rent ver­sion is 2.0.0.14 for Win­dows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Even bet­ter is Fire­fox 3, which will be released on June 17, 2008.

The cool kids at Mozilla are try­ing to set a new Guin­ness World Record, for most soft­ware down­loads in 24 hours. Down­load Day for Fire­fox 3 is Tues­day, June 17, 2008.

So, help us set a new Guin­ness World Record, and “Enjoy a Bet­ter Web.”

Opera 9.5

In the mean­time, Opera 9.5 has been released. Opera is a pretty good browser too, though web devel­op­ers will prob­a­bly wait for Drag­on­fly.

OpenOf­fice 3

While you’re at it, you might want to upgrade your Office suite, as well. OpenOf­fice is a free open-​source office soft­ware sui­tex, for doc­u­ments, spread­sheets, pre­sen­ta­tions, graph­ics, and data­bases. Lat­est release is ver­sion 2.4.1, and OpenOf­fice 3 is in beta.

In fact, my shiny almost-​new Vista lap­top has never run Microsoft Office. A state­ment I never expected to write, but with OpenOf­fice, I don’t even miss it.