Firefox 3 Launch Party
Posted at 10:03am EST on 06/19/2008
Two nights ago was the launch party for Firefox 3. We had a great time. The party was hosted by AdaptiveBlue, who provided the pizza and beer. Then notch.es sponsored the second round of pizzas which were devoured within minutes.
The party was a blast! We had such a great time. A number of folks I already knew were there, so it was great to see them. Some people such as @webanalyticsguru, @chrissieb, @rebeccaforever, @tonybgoode, and @ozsultan, just to name a few.
The count for actual downloads of that 24-hour window was somewhere around the number of eight (8) million downloads, setting the world record for the most downloads in a single day.
I met a bunch of new people there, but one in particular stuck out to me. Lee from Veri.com was there and it was truly a pleasure to meet him and talk about Veri.com. As a sidebar item, Veri is something of a blend between Digg and Mixx meets Amazon Recommendations. That’s the short version, but there’s a lot that goes into it. It looks cool. You should sign up for a beta invite.
In other news, I downloaded Firefox 3 but am not quite happy with it yet. A lot of my extensions are not yet compatible and sadly Google has not yet stated if Google Browser Sync will be supported for Firefox 3 (which I use everyday).
So I’m still running on Firefox 2.0.0.14, but I have Firefox 3 installed just so I could see it and test it.
My attire for the evening was optimized by Leora Zellman.
Photo credit: Oz Sultan
Liz
Jun 19th, 2008
Eh, I wanted to be there but was doing the job-thing. It cuts into my partying which I’ll have to do something about. Sounds like fun…I’ll be there for FF4!
Jonathan Dingman
Jun 19th, 2008
@Liz, awww we would have loved to have you there, we really did have a good time.
FF4 will be even more revolutionary, I hope.
But alas, the FF3 launch party is over and FF3 now has well over 10 million downloads.