Firefox's set a world download record with the release of Firefox 3 with 8.3 million downloads, but it hit a bump because of the heavy demand on servers, slowing downloads to treacle for a while.
They were going for the gol d and they got it, unofficially recording 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours. But Mozilla’s attempt to hit that goal with the release of Firefox 3 yesterday might have been hindered, ironically, by the sheer demand for the product.
The launch began at 10am Pacific time, and there were soon 14,000 downloads a minute, at 13Gb a second, according to Vnunet, who reported that by 12.30 pm, the download speed was down to a very sluggish 5kb a second, and one of Firefox’s three sites, spreadfirefox.com, had gone down.
However, all was not lost. It came back up, and Mozilla reported that there were around 8,000 downloads a minute, with a one-day estimate of between five and seven million downloads.
Paul Kim, Mozilla’s vice president of product marketing, said in a statement:
"Our systems were quite busy earlier this morning so individual requests may not have gotten through, but they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads."
With that 8.3 million download total, Firefox beat it’s own goal by three million, and the word record is theirs – although, to be fair, none existed before. John Lilly, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, claims this gives Firefox a 4% browser market share.
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I use Firefox 2 as my browser, and only open Internet Explorer 7 (IE) if a webpage seems to really need it.
Since the beginning of time, I've required IE to ask me permission every time it wanted to run an ActiveX function. But a few days ago, I figured that as my secondary browser, I only use it on the few websites I go to that expressly need the ActiveX functionality (such as online virus scans and Windows Update), so I stopped requiring that IE ask my permission every time.
But I wouldn't use it for general browsing.
Looking forward to Firefox 3. The betas got excellent reviews.
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