Nine Days Wonder

The first 24 hours the web browser was available the software was downloaded more than eight million times, says its creator Mozilla.

The attempt to set the download record was scheduled to begin at 1300 PST (2000 GMT) on 17 June. However, the record attempt was almost wrecked from the start as the servers handling the downloads collapsed under the weight of visitors checking to see if new version was available.

Once the servers were up and functioning normally the record attempt began.

At their busiest the servers were handling more than 9,000 downloads per minute. Within five hours the number of downloads for Version 3.0 exceeded the 1.6 million set by Firefox 2.0 in October 2006.

In total Firefox 3.0 was downloaded 8.3 million times over the 24 hour record setting period. The figure beats the five million Mozilla predicted before the day.

Read more: BBC News

After officially launching the Indian edition of Orkut, Google added 12 new themes to Orkut but it was visible only to some users. It hasn’t yet added this feature to everyone’s profile yet. Yesterday, when I logged into Orkut, I was happy to see that Orkut is allowing to change the default blue theme.

You can change the theme by clicking the Change theme on the top of the navigation bar. Its also available in the Edit Profile page under Themes tab.

Here is one the theme(Beach) preview after updating:

Yet another feature update by Orkut. Including the default classic blue theme, there are 12 themes(Autumn, Coutryside, Winter, Beach, Springtime, JR-The friendly giant, Snowman, Bus Stop, View from a moon, AJA Tiger and Tea House) to choose from of which 7 were available at the moment. The themes have been designed to reflect the season changes. The color combination is good but I think the themes are pretty much kiddish..I mean they appeal more to kids. I expect a lot more in Orkut regarding themes and the themes could be much better. I want user level customization of themes..that would be much better. What say?