Saying the release of Firefox 3.0 to the masses went as planned would be misstating the facts. It is true that Mozilla planned and worked towards a record breaking release but I think way things went was not what they anticipated. A few minutes before the actual release time the servers got flooded by requests so that the Spread Firefox and Get Firefox pages went down. The downtime caused that nobody could in fact download the final release of Firefox 3.0 until an hour later. Mozilla kept the users informed via their blog and on Twitter.

Finally everyone was able to get the download and the race for the Guiness record is on. Mozilla hopes to get as many downloads as possible to generate headlines and more interest from the non-tech savvy people. I for one must say that at the moment there is no real competition for Firefox 3.0. There are many sites where you can get reviews for the new release of Firefox so it makes no sense for me to review it at the moment but to be clear about my take on this – Firefox 3.0 is the browser to beat. Heck even Walt likes it.