I’ll be celebrating Download Day Tuesday June 17. That’s when Mozilla will release Firefox 3, the new generation of the Open Source browser.

I have used test versions of Firefox 3 for months and love it. I love the performance and speed even when I have multiple tabs open, which I almost always do. Right now, I have Firefox 22 tabs open, and the browser remains perky and stable. Yes, it’s using up a huge amount of my computer’s free memory, but I’d rather give it to that then most anything else on my desktop.

Bookmarking works great, including greatly improved integration with del.icio.us bookmarking, which I also recommend. Del.icio.us combines bookmarking with social networking, and in the new version, you can have the best of both worlds, complete local bookmarks in Firefox and web-based, shared (or not shared) tagged bookmarks on the web.

The new Firefox also helps you along the way when you start typing into the search bar. Lots of other security and other improvements.

If you use Firefox, you can take the pledge to download and install it on Tuesday, to help Firefox set the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in one day. I'll be there.

Firefox 3 beta with lots of tabs open.