Firefox 3 Downloads

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

June25th2008

Okie dokie, so Firefox 3 has landed, everyone started downloading like crazy, and now the Guinness Book officials are still a few steps behind this, but I am sure the record will be validated pretty soon. Before getting into the subject, I must say that I'm happy with it, but I won't lie to you - Firefox 3 crashed on me a few times, but considering the time I spent using it in the last days, it didn't crash often enough to make me stop using it. Anyway, let's get to the numbers now, shall we?

Firefox 3 overview from Mozilla Firefox on Vimeo.

In the first 24 hours, Firefox 3 managed to reach 8.3 million downloads. Now, the official Firefox 3 download counter shows 19,910,340 downloads, and keeps moving on. The average download rate until now is over 900 downloads/minute. Not bad, not bad at all! Speaking about countries, the US is leading the way, with over 330 downloads per minute, followed by Germany, with over 70 downloads per minute.

According to Mozilla, "By the end of the 24 hour period, the unofficial count clocked in at more than 8 million Firefox 3 downloads! The Guinness judges still have to validate the record attempt, and the Spread Firefox team is standing by to announce the results when they’re available. Since then, another 10 million copies of Firefox 3 have been downloaded, bringing the total to over 18m in the first week," so now it's only a matter of time until Firefox 3 enters the Guinness Book.

As one last thing, I am sure you noticed the redesign that Mozilla.com suffered. I don't know about you, but I love it. Here's what John Slater, Mozilla's Creative Director, has to say about it:"One of our biggest goals for the Mozilla.com redesign was to kick our presentation of Firefox 3 up a few notches, so to speak. With that in mind we really expanded the Firefox section of the site, adding a detailed features page, tips & tricks, information about security and add-ons, and more. We also figured that, since some concepts are more easily shown than explained, it would be a good time to add our first-ever video to the site."

To download Firefox 3, if you were afraid to do that so far, I advise you to go to the Firefox 3 download page on Mozilla.com. Good luck!