I hope you don’t mind the off-topic post, but web advocacy and alternative browsers are important to me, so I wanted to publicize this a bit.
Firefox and Opera have both released new versions of their web browsers in the past week. Opera 9.5 came out on Thursday, and Firefox 3 is available today starting at 10:00 AM Pacific time. I’ve used the betas for several months, and can highly recommend both of them. They’re both very fast, lean, modern browsers. If you’ve been concerned about Firefox’s memory usage, they’ve made massive improvements since version 2. If you’re concerned about Opera’s price, your knowledge is out of date—it’s been free (with no ads) since 2005.
This goes double for those of you still running Internet Explorer 6. Web technology is passing IE6 by, and if you can upgrade to IE7 or switch to an alternative, and your favorite sites don’t force you to use IE, either Firefox or Opera will be a good move.
Additionally, Firefox is trying to set a world record for software downloaded in a 24-hour period. That starts at 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Saving Time on Tuesday, June 17 (that’s 17:00 UTC). You can use a time zone converter to figure out your what time that is in your own time zone. If you want to participate, head over to the Download Day site, and download Firefox 3 during those 24 hours.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled comics blog.
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