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 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.
2 Responses to “Firefox 3 Turns up the Heat”
By Bavington on Jun 19, 2008
I too took park in the download, without me it would have been one less! Like you said Adam, no massive obvious changes to the Browser, I think it is a combination of a lot of small changes, overall making one massive update.
I like the Apple Mac’s version’s Metallic look, as it is more in keeping with other Apple Applications.
By Ronny on Jul 16, 2008
Just a week I moved to this new version. I think it will fight with Flock, the sister browser.