The much awaited Firefox 3.0 is released with a bang. Mozilla expects to set a World Record for maximum downloads in a single day, with a target of 50 million downloads in 24 hours. The Firefox download page announces FF 3 as:

The Best Firefox Yet
With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.

View a cool video showing the new firefox 3’s features here. Reports indicates that 4 million downloads made in the first four hours and users are experiencing slowdowns in the download servers. A few of the improvement areas in this new installment listed below:

• Much faster load times
• Fixed memory leak problem in Firefox 2
• An “Awesome Bar” (aka smart location bar) that suggests sites you’ve visited before or bookmarked when you type a URL into the address bar.
• Better security against phishing and malware
• One-click bookmarking
• Offline capabilities
• Built-in spell-check and session restore capabilities (like Firefox 2)
• Cool zoom-in feature
• Looks better on a Mac

Download Firefox 3 from these urls:

HTTP: Link
FTP: Link