Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Firefox aims for download record

So far Mozilla has not said exactly when on 17 June the attempt to break the record will begin. Firefox first appeared in early 2004 and since then has steadily eroded Microsoft's hold on the web browsing world.

"There is actually no record for the greatest amount of software downloaded in one day, so for 24 hours from the moment we push the bits live, that's when the countdown starts," he said.
Mr Kim said Mozilla had no specific target for the number of downloads it would like to achieve on the day but racking up five million would be "awesome".
By comparison, Firefox 2.0 registered 1.6 million downloads on the day it was made available on 24 October, 2006. More than 1.3 million people have pledged to download the new version on 17 June.

WEB BROWSER STATS
  1. Internet Explorer - 83.27%
  2. Firefox - 13.76%
  3. Apple Safari - 2.18%
  4. Opera - 0.55%
  5. Netscape - 0.14%
Source: OneStat



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