Since it was officially released around 7 hours ago, Firefox 4 has been downloaded nearly 2.4 million times.
I feel many things today. I’m deeply proud and humbled to be a part of the Mozilla community and contribute in my own small way to what I honestly believe is a fantastic product and the best choice in web browsers right now.
I’m filled with joy at seeing a product so many people have worked so hard on finally get released to everyone.
And I’m a little bit sad that I’m not in Mountain View for the release.
Finally, I’m excited, because just in the time I’ve been at Mozilla, the web has gotten so much better.
- All the modern browsers are fast.
- Browsers quickly getting more secure.
- Modern browsers are so much more capable.
The future of the web is bright. There are challenges—not just for Firefox but for the web itself—but I’m confident we have the ingenuity and passion to overcome them.
So if you haven’t tried it yet, go get Firefox 4, and experience a better web!
Here are my favorite parts:
- App tabs.
- Panorama.
- WebGL.
- Developer console.
- Fast, fast, fast!
- Tabs on top.
- Switch to Tab.
- Sync.
- Restartless Add-ons.
Buyer Beware here. You probably saw a warning when you tried to go to about:config. That’s because you can significantly alter the behavior of Firefox here, and you need to be either very careful about what you change, or very confident in your ability to fix it.
Right there? That’s enough to deter me from this whole process, so I can definitely understand if it scared you off. But this is an important update, a security update, so you need to do it.
Now, more towards the middle of the page, look for a link that says “
That will start downloading the normal installer we’ve come to know and love. Yeah, you’ll still have to restart Firefox, but you were going to need to do that, anyway.