Firefox 3 Turns up the Heat
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 browser still stands head and shoulders above any other available browser simply down to its ease of use, massive amount of cutomisable options and a pretty consistent performance.
Anyway, well done to Mozilla, it was nice to be part of its success.
