Mozilla Test Browser: Minefield

Mozilla has released a test browser codenamed "Minefield" which is basically Firefox with a faster javascript engine, or in my words, Firefox on crack. When tested alongside Google Chrome, it was faster than the V8 javascript engine, which was previously thought to be the fastest javascript engine available. The new javascript engine is called TraceMonkey, and it is truley amazing. Just playing with it doing everyday websurfing, I've noticed significant speed increases.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Firefox Download Day: +8 Million Downloads

Mozilla set a world record yesterday for the most software downloads in one day with the release of Firefox 3. More than 8 Million copies were downloaded during the 24 hours of Firefox Download Day. In the first 4 hours after the release, one million copies had already been downloaded. The servers were insanely slow around 10 AM PST when it was scheduled to be released. The bandwidth of spreadfirefox.com crashed it for a while before the release too.

On a side note, a web browser I developed was released yesterday too, but it got 16 downloads. If you're looking for a light, IE-based browser for Microsoft Windows, you can find it here.