That's pretty cool. :) Though it seems a little strange that they don't say what time zone they're counting those twenty-four hours in (it won't be June 17 everywhere!) Oh, well, I signed up for the reminder email, so they'll tell me when it starts.

As if hearing your question, this was in a recent Firefox Facts newsletter (it sounds like a lot of people in different time zones logged in at 12am their time and were shut-out so there was some frustration that the duration of the download window wasn't made clear)...


Right now we are just waiting for Mountain View, California, USA at 10:00:00 AM. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) to happen. At that time the switch will be flipped and Firefox 3 will be ready for the masses!

To help with the time conversions, check out this link. For the US, it looks like the eastern time zone will get it at 1:00 PM. The central time zone gets it at noon. The mountain time zone gets it at 11:00 AM and the west coast will get it at 10:00 AM.

Count me in

Let me know what you think of it!

And they're already talking about Firefox 4! Here's something I got from the Firefox Facts e-newsletter...

"Here is what Mike Shroepfer, Mozilla VP of Technology has had to say on Firefox 3.1 and Firefox 4:

There were a number of features that we held back from Firefox 3 because they weren’t quite ready - but they were nearly complete. These include things like XHR, native JSON DOM bindings, ongoing performance tuning, awesomebar++, better system integration, etc. This along with the overall quality of Gecko 1.9 as a basis for mobile and the desire to get new platform features out to web developers sooner has lead to us want to do a second release of Firefox this year. This release would be date-driven and targeted at the end of 2008. Any features not ready in time will move to the next major release. This is currently planned to be based on Gecko 1.9.1 - but if there are solid technical reasons for breaking frozen APIs we will bump the version number to Mozilla2.

Firefox 4 will incorporate some of the more aggressive platform improvements in Mozilla2. It is far too early to set a shipping date but an initial target would be sometime in late 2009. Mozilla2 work has been underway for > 8 months"