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This thing fits in a manila folder, you can probably slide it under a door, it’s the thinnest laptop in the world right now. It’s  a great move that Apple tries to take a another step toward competition by introducing this very sexy laptop. But, there are alway but after something good right?

If you want to use it for design purpose, or try to use some heavyweight application, it won’t cut it. Good looking comes with sacrifice, which in this case-performance. Sporting a 1.6ghz cpu, it does a descent job on maybe just writing your notes or papers, and it will view any website smoothly. However, with the low end video card, programs such as adobe line of products will squeeze that last bit of juice out of it. The bottom line is that the Macbook air was not design for designer, but for casual use.

Since its launch last week on June 17^th 2008, Firefox 3 has hit 17.3 Million downloads! To celebrate the launch, Mozilla encouraged users to participate in Download Day, a day where all downloads made would count towards setting a Guinness world record for the most software downloads within 24 hours. At the end of DownloadDay, there were over 8,000,000 downloads from people all over the world.

Developers claim that they have made 15,000 improvements and added features to make Firefox 3 a faster, safer and smarter web browser. Here are just some of the new features that improve Firefox’s performance, user experience, customization and security.

Performance

• Pages load two to three times faster than Firefox 2 with its improved page rendering
• Uses less memory while running with improved memory management

User Experience

• Smart location bar that adapts to user preferences and provides better matches over time
• One-click bookmarking & bookmark tags to organize your favorite websites
• Session restore
• Built-in spell checking
• Full zoom to see any part of a webpage up-close

Customization

• Over 5,000 add-ons that customize the way you browse the internet
• Themes to change the look and feel of your browser

Security

• Phishing and malware protection to shield you from viruses, trojans and spyware
• Site ID information to verify a website’s legitimacy and protect you from scams and unsafe transactions

For more information:
Download Firefox
World Record Info