RSSMozilla: 1.6 million downloads and counting
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published June 17, 2008, 7:17 PM
Early Tuesday evening, the Mozilla organization gave BetaNews an update on its quest to have posted the single most downloaded (tracked) software item in a single day, having exceeded Firefox 2's single-day mark in just five hours' time.
As BetaNews confirmed this afternoon, the worldwide usage share of all Web browsers declaring themselves as Firefox 3.0 in HTTP requests, catapulted by 265% between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm EDT today, according to independent data compiled live by analysis firm Net Applications, from 0.96% to 2.54%. That means nearly one Web browser in 40 worldwide is using Firefox 3, as of Tuesday evening.
However, another analysis firm, Netcraft, confirmed what we were seeing ourselves at mid-afternoon: Servers for Mozilla.com and the SpreadFirefox.com marketing arm of Mozilla were sporadically unavailable for a period of time extending from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm EDT. By 7:15, however, both appeared to be operational; and a Mozilla spokesperson told us "they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads."
http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/
Download counter, showing ~6.9 million as of this post, ~6,200/min!
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When that counter first started (not the official counter, AFAIK), it was getting ~15k/min.
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>5m already
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6 million
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Opera > *
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Since they are trying to set a world record, I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the previous record was...?
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There wasn't one.
They could have had 6 downloaders and still set the world record.
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Yeah... kind of my point :)
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That's probably why they stated that they were trying to "set" a record, rather than "break" a record. Any record has to begin somewhere.
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We are also the user of Firefox and the new version is more faster than the old one.
http://www.maharashtradi...com/busby-seo-challenge/
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Excellent Firefox 3.0. I've tested it with my javascript. It's about double faster than Firefox 2.0 and IE 7.0.
Great work! Thank you and kudos to the Firefox 3.0 team!
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mozilla.com is down again. :-P
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infinitely...
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Go Firefox!! Woohoo!! ^__^
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Love it! Fast, simple. I really enjoy reading the newspapers and page zoom which does everything, text and pictures, makes it a pleasure. Oh, so fast and crisp. Thank you Mozilla people worldwide.
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LOL, the way Mozilla is acting and some of the people on here, you would think God just spoke to the nations. It is a browser, not a matter of life and death, this is turning out to be such a farce over software..
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*laughs*
here's a thunk:
Don't want to see people discussing a browser?
GTFO
Seems pretty straight-forward and logical. People tend to avoid things they dislike. Are you dense, or just trolling?
(That was rhetorical, we all know you're trolling)
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Hey, Dakota! Welcome back! I don't mind the trolling, as it entertains me.
It's a fair assumption that if the title of the thread is something about a prominent piece of software setting a record, that many fans are gonna come comment about it. I really hate to point out the bleeding obvious, you being a well-established internet user and all, but your comments are akin to cursing a lit stove burner that you knowingly put your hand on, for being lit.
That you don't care is none of our concern (other to post replies to your comments), and since it seems as though you don't care you could always (you should sit down for this) GTFO, just as PC_Tool kindly suggests.
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On Tiger after upgrade from 2.0 to new 3.0 Firefox on start was not responding. Tossed prefs .plist and everything was fine. 3.0 does seem faster than 2.0 on most everything.
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where is that located? could not find it on my system and I too find that after upgrading it takes forever for FF3 to load up.
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WOOOHOOO!!! go Mozilla! hopefully, with all the Hype, Mozilla will be used on 1 in 5 or more by months end! Down with Slow, unreliable, Buggy IE7!!!!!
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and Safari, and Opera, Flock.. etc =P
FF3 FTW.
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I've used Firefox and Thunderbird for 5 months now without a single hitch. Nothing has gone wrong.
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Nice! I'm starting to like firefox even more with "fast dial" add-on. Set my homepage to fastdial and NICE!
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I contributed one hit to their download count for firefox 3, and then within a few minutes contributed a hit to their download of firefox 2.
I like my browser efficient and slim, the new firefox is neither compared to the previous one.
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While lesser weight and efficiency may be a preference of yours, the average new system sold these days can more than easily support the requirements of the latest version. Sparing 20-30 megs of program memory footprint is akin to worrying about where to safely empty a glass a water in the Atlantic.
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I wasnt referring to computing efficiency, but usability efficiency.
If I wanted computing efficiency I'd stick with IE6
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How has usability suffered in 3.0?
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With your clarification, I will ask the same question as PC_Tool: How has usability suffered? I can still enter URLs in the address bar, and pages load fully, faster (indicating here an *increase* in efficiency). The shortcut bar is there, like it was last time. The drop-down menu on the URL bar adds but a few more lines of information to URL history.
In fact, the de facto install of 3, with the possible exception of a larger "back" button, is, to me, identical to that of the FF 2 de facto install. (The back button is merely cosmetic, but ergonomics experts might argue its efficiency due to its larger size.)
Dictionary.com defines efficiency as the ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort, and given that I could access that very site faster just by entering "diction" into the URL bar, FF 3 is *more* efficient for me than the previous version.
That being said, how has your usability efficiency suffered while having used FF 3 for what was it, five minutes? Other than the previously mentioned example, it would take me a great deal longer than five minutes to determine accurately whether version 3 is a detriment to my usability, but you may be able to provide a view point which I have yet to consider.
So again, how had your efficiency suffered?
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Must you really be so damn concise? =-)
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Sweet! Go Firefox!
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By 7:50 P.M., total over 2 million.
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Now does that count all the failed attempts that blew up in the middle because the servers were c***ed up and had to be restarted? I am quite sure (read: hope) Mozilla will properly document how this is being measured.
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no, it has to be a full package, partial download does not count.
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Firefox crashes on a regular basis on my MacBook Pro 10.5.3. I will be staying away from it. The Safari 4 developer preview is more stable on my machine than Firefox 3. Garbage I say!
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Suggest you get a Windows based PC (any version...)
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Dude, do a Verify Disk or something cuz Firefox 3 runs like a charm on my Mac Pro, both under OS X and XP. Actually, I haven't seen anything wrong with it since Beta 1.
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Like Morsel said, do a check. Runs on my iMac with no issues. Then again, you may be the exception that proves the rule.
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Read his post again. He says the issue's with the program, not the OS. If he moves over to Windows, everything will crash.
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"Firefox crashes on a regular basis on my MacBook Pro 10.5.3."
Since when did anything crash on a Mac?! I thought His Holyness (Steve Jobs) anointed each one with blessed oils to ensure flawless operation?
Anyhoo, go Firefox!
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Yeah, because on a Mac "it just works."
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He won't have anything to move since they don't make any software for the mac! XD
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Awww, you shouldn't call Safari garbage. It's not that bad. ;-)
I've been using nightly builds of Firefox 3 for months. It's fine.
Delete the .plist file first. If not that, then verify permissions.
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Clearly not in this case!
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That being the case, what software is not made for the Mac, that should be? Every program i used when I was a PC user, I have on my Mac, and many times those programs are cheaper or free.
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And given my experience with Apple this far, the phrase rings true!
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I'll happily take exceptions that prove the rule.
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