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Firefox 3 LogoMozilla is telling all of their customers that tomorrow is officially recognized as ‘Download Day’. They will be trying to set a brand new Guinness Record for how many software downloads they can attempt when they release the new Firefox 3 web browser tomorrow June 16th. The new browser is said to have better security, a new design, and better performance than the previous model.

Firefox 3 will boast better navigational control – which is something that many Firefox users have been waiting to see along with improved extensibility features. The location bar has been placed in a much better place along with the bookmarks.

Locked ComputerSeveral online forums that have posted thousands of images of child pornography have been taken off of three separate internet providers – said New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Two of the servers were some of the nation’s largest providers.

These new agreement were enforced by child-welfare advocates in order to push service providers to do more to monitor the things that people do on their servers and to prevent people from posting this kind of horrible images. While this helps to push horrible people off the internet it may also go against the First Amendment – free speech.

Windows 7People who attended the Gates/Ballmer interview during the D6 conference were given a sneak peek at the up and coming Windows 7 – which is scheduled to be delivered to consumers in late 2009. In the demo they showed the full screen multi-touch interface that is embedded in the operating system. There was also a demo of the Surface-like application that is used to organize photos.

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