The Firefox 3 download day is over. Their download serves were reported to be offline for 1-2 hours (I wrote about that in previous post). Anyway they have reggistered 8,349,074 downloads in 24 hours period. There is also a very nice flash download map where you can see downloads count by the region / country. Poland goes quite nice there :)

And about Firefox 3 after one day of normal usage (browsing / web development). It is definitely faster than previous versions. gMail even with gMail Redesigned skin is working quite fast. Memory usage seems to be better too.  In 2.0 after some hours of work, FF used to take about 300-500 MB of memory (with a lot of tabs opened/closed/cycled and so on). In FF 3.0 I’ve noticed yesterday something about 200 MB, but I need to check it more closely. Favourites are better - with tags and Smart Bookmarks (such as ‘Recently bookmarked’) it is something closer to del.icio.us. Interface skin is very slick and nice. Also the new ‘remember password’ option that does not block loading page after asking for password is very very nice.

Lifehacker has prepared a list of top 10 Firefox 3 new features and Power User’s Guide to make this browser more user friendly (like by installing Old Bar extension to replace Awesome Bar that I don’t like).

The drawback of this new awesome version is fact that some extenions are not working with it, like Google Bookmarks Sync that won’t be updated for Firefox 3 :/
Anyway Firefox 3 is great, some new features are similar to those found in recently released Opera 9.50 which is great browser too.