The long awaited release of Firefox 3 arrived today and is being released in over 50 different languages for the worldwide release. This newest release is supoosed to be two to three times faster than the previous version. For me, I’m hoping that the Mac version has fixed the memory leak issue. It seemed to bog down quite a bit and needed to have the cache and temporary files constantly deleted to work properly. There are numerous improvements to this version and too many to name. For a look into the inner workings of Firefox 3 check out Lifehacker’s Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3.

The new default theme has been brushed up quite a bit and there’s a new tool bar that glides from the top for remembering passwords. I haven’t dug around too much this afternoon at the office, but I plan on giving it a full run through tonight at home. If you haven’t had a chance to download this latest release you gotta get on it. In an effort to break a Guinness World Record for most downloads in a single day a site called Spread Firefox is counting all of the downloads of Firefox 3. They’ve got a link on the site to download the installer as well as a counter and cool Flash map showing the hotspots around the globe downloading the new Firefox. As of this post the counter is at just over two million downloads. In order for your download to count you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008.

Get out there and get your update now.

~ GrandmasterB