Well it is finally here. Firefox 3 with all its glory. Who needs Microsoft when you have kickass products like these. Thankz to Mozilla and the open source community! Firefox 3 is well worth the hype.
For me, Firefox is not only a browser, it is a success story that has proven for once and for all that Open source is the way of the future. Coming to the scene at a time when Microsoft had battered down the competition it had in Netscape, Firefox was the saviour of the internet for most of the commoners like us. Ever wonder what the internet would be like if only IE 6 was there? Ugh… I can’t even bear to think! Anyways, that is history… and Firefox my friends, is the future!
The browser has smashed its target of five million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours, acheiving a final tally of 8,290,545 downloads of the new browser, and reaching a market share that peaked at over six percent.
Mozilla was aiming to set a Guinness world record for the total number of downloads of a piece of software in a 24-hour period. As part of its marketing effort, it encouraged users to pledge to download Firefox 3 on its release, and to hold download parties.
Online metrics company Net Applications said market share of Firefox 3 peaked at 6.2 percent of all browser usage at 5am EDT on 19 June — less than 48 hours after release.
Just under 300,000 of the downloads in the first 24 hours came from the UK, with the vast majority — 6.5 million — from the US.
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June 20, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Great blog man. Keep it going….
June 20, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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