Alfred C. Chen's Weblog

First of all, congratulations to the FireFox Community on establishing the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in one day.  As one of the 8,002,530 people who successfully downloaded FireFox 3.0 on June 17th, I feel privileged to be displaying the FireFox 3 Download Day certificate on my Blog.  After all, I simply downloaded the latest version of the Web browser (for my Macbook Pro) that I already use daily for all my Web activities.

Well, it has been 2 1/2 weeks and I have not encountered a single crash.  Performance has been great and all my existing add-ons upgraded without a hitch.  Thanks to FireFox 3 I'm enjoying my Web surfing experience even more so.  Kudos to the developers who work on the Mozilla projects.

There are so many new features in FireFox 3 that I simply haven't had the time to test drive them all.  Among the new features, my favorite include the Password Manager, Instant Web Site ID, and the New Location Bar with One Click Bookmarking.  I'm also a big fan of the FireFox 3 Download Map (Cool page, not a feature.) which provide an at-a-glance view of the latest FireFox 3 download stats across the globe in a very visually engaging manner.  I hope we can provide similar reporting UI for the software downloads at Sun.

Speaking of Sun, I was disappointed to not find FireFox 3 for Solaris readily accessible on the FireFox home page.  As it has been with prior releases, the download links to the Solaris port of FireFox 3 is buried in the Release Notes under Contributed Builds.  You really need to dig for it.  Well if you have been looking to download FireFox 3 for Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris, today is your lucky day.  I have conveniently provided the download links here on my Blog.

Download FireFox 3 for Solaris here:

Checkout the new Download Home Page on Sun.COM.  As one of the most frequently visited page, the newly enhanced design will allow customers to gain quick access to the most essential software from Sun.  These products are often the subject of Jonathan Schwartz's Blog.  Personally, I have recently downloaded OpenSolaris and xVM VirtualBox (desktop virtualization), and I'm now able to run OpenSolaris (and other operating systems as well) on my MacBook Pro using xVM VirutalBox.  How cool is that.  Anyway, I will be sure to blog about my virtualization experience in the near future.

Back to the new Download Home Page, if you do not find the software you need on the Featured Downloads tab, the new home page design offers numerous means to locate your software download.  You will find links to the New Downloads and Top Downloads.  Of course, navigation by Product Category or A-Z Listing is available as well.

Give it a try and download one of the feature products today!