Firefox 3 has just arrived on the scene, offering new features and boasting a browser that is more user-friendly, secure, and customizable than ever before. The Cooliris Team is excited about the launch and is proud to say our ever-poplular addons PicLens (check out our brand new Piclens 1.7!) and Cooliris Previews sail smoothly with the Firefox upgrade.

Firefox is a tremendous success story, growing organically through the combined efforts of a small core Mozilla team and a massive volunteer community. Firefox users are enthusiastic early adopters of new Web technology, excited to both try out and develop new software.

It was this enthusiasm and sense of community that encouraged the Cooliris team to focus much of our efforts on the Firefox browser. Immediately after launching our “PicLens 3D Wall” interface in January, we received thousands of letters of praise, suggestions, and even performance reports from Firefox users and fellow developers. Some even sent us multi-page documents that canvassed every aspect of our interface and their user experience.

This kind of feedback, and the sense that we are part of a growing and evolving community, has been invaluable in advancing PicLens toward its full potential.

Our just launched PicLens 1.7 (read about it here), with new features such as Return to PicLens, Discover, and Shop Amazon, evolved much in thanks to the tremendous feedback we’ve received from fans.

Today, PicLens is one of Firefox’s most downloaded addons, and proudly the personal favorite of Mozilla CEO John Lilly.

Give Firefox 3 a try now and make sure you’re making the most of your Web experience. Mozilla’s community has been a great help in evolving PicLens, and newest version of Firefox gives all of us – as both users and developers – a lot more to play with. Way to go, Mozilla!