Firefox 3 is all set to reach new territories, and on the way to its glory it aims to create a world record for the most number of software downloads in a single day. Mozilla is surely on its way to create the record and its asking everyone including me and you to pledge to download Firefox 3 when its available for public download..

Well the dates for the release haven’t been announced as yet but looking at the recent Release Candidate builds Firefox looks like a solid improvement over Firefox 2. I’d say go ahead and make a pledge to help Firefox create this new world record…

To help Mozilla set the world record, they recommend the following:

• Sign up to get the final copy of Firefox 3 on Download Day.
• Host a Download Day Fest on Firefox 3 launch day at your school, office, or anywhere with an Internet connection.
• Become a Firefox campus representative and collect pledges from fellow students.
• Add Mozilla buttons and banners to your site, blog, or profile.

Nearly 120,000 people have already pledged, but I can imagine this number will grow significantly in the following days. You can even see how many people have pledged from each individual country on a nifty world map, as pictured below. As of now the United States is in the lead but I’d like to see my home country India be a bigger part of this initiative.

So what are you waiting for? lets get moving and stab IE in the face. Come on people, Firefox rocks doesn’t it?

Put in your pledge right now!!

Just done with reading an Interesting Post at PCWorld titled “Dear Microsoft: It’s Time for Internet Explorer, Powered by Firefox”. The headline caught me unawares and the article itself was quite an interesting read.

The article was quite provocative, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I just thought I should present my opinions on this idea as well, so here you go.. If you have any ideas please drop in your opinions in the comments.

For a start lets get it straight on, that IE will never embrace Firefox come what may. So this post is more like dream that is never going to come true. But in case something of this  sort does happen, here is what may happen..

• For a start it would be the biggest news in the Internet Era, to come a close second only to the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo Merger.
• Microsoft would immediately become the darling of Open Source Movement. I shudder to think of Microsoft going truly open source.
• IE will have more developers and will become more secure than it is at the moment.
• Microsoft would forever loose its monopolistic tag, and become a company that works closely with the Open source crowd.
• All the pain that Google took to build Firefox as an alternative to IE will go in vain.

All in a all this does sound like a good deal. If IE is built over Firefox it would mean over 95% of the browser market would be Gecko based, which is a win win situation for web developers worldwide simply because they will have to work less harder in coding their web apps.

What do you think on this dream that me and a couple of others have come up with Do you think this will ever happen? What would be your opinion on this as a Web developer ?