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Firefox 3 Turns up the Heat

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Well they've done it, and it was predicted long ago. Yesterday's launch of Firefox 3 has smashed the Firefox 2 download record by achieving over 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours. That works out at roughly 5,764 downloads per minute worldwide. This record means that Firefox 3 already has 4% of the market share for web browsers despite only being 48 hours old. I have no doubts that Guiness will recognise this acheivement in the next world records book. From what I've seen of Firefox 3 so far it doesn't appear to have any drastic improvements over Firefox 2. Regardless, this ... Read Article »

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