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If you hadn’t already heard, Mozilla has released the final version of its web browser Firefox, 3.0! Though most of us have been running the betas and RCs for some time its good to see it official. It comes just in time to take Opera 9.5 and  the social browser Flock 2 beta (now based on Firefox 3).

Internet Explorer better bring something new to the table with version 8 if it plans to keep its place on top.

Note: Download Firefox 3.0 and help set a world record for the most downloaded program, in one day!

Update: Over 7.5 million copies were downloaded within the 24 hr period. This didn’t include updates or ftp traffic. Also get your very own official download certificate HERE.

Firefox 3 is one step closer to release after Mozilla distributed the first release candidate of its latest browser. It was made available to around 1.2million testers with no date yet on public release.

On Mozilla’s developer blog they comment on this being the final release if no bugs are found and if so more RCs to follow. Here is hoping it is clean!

If you can’t wait then download RC1 here.

[Update] You can now download the RC via the software update in Firefox.

I am sure most users of Firefox have noticed that the option to “run” a download is not available and users are forced to download before opening.

This has led to  Jeremy Gillick developing ‘Open Download‘ a simple addon for Firefox (pre version 3) which fixes this problem.

As far as I know there is yet to be an alternative that is Firefox 3 friendly.

For all those that have been watching the development of Firefox 3, you would be happy to know the latest beta is now available for download HERE.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.

It is also faster with improved connection parallelism. Which allows for increased simultaneous connections by default for those that have not already ‘fixed’ this.

The final release of Firefox 3 is due in June.