Firefox 4 Blasts Past IE9 in Day 1 Downloads
Last week, Microsoft proudly announced that Internet Explorer 9 had been downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours of availability, and we have to admit, we were impressed. With Firefox 4 launching just a little over a week after IE9, we were eager to see how the download numbers would compare.
Mozilla's method for showing off its impressive number of downloads is a little different. Rather than announce it via its blog, the company has created a website specially for the purpose and the number is updating in real time. By the end of yesterday, Mozilla had logged around 3 million and at 10 a.m. this morning, it was at around 7 million.
Mozilla's stat counter site, glow.mozilla.org, is actually very neat. It shows you how many people are downloading Firefox 4, and, thanks to the wonders of IP addresses, where they are in the world. You can also break it down by continent, country, state and city.
There’s no way of knowing if this tracker takes into account downloads that were started on Monday, when a link to the final version on Mozilla's FTP was posted on news sites and forums around the web. Mozilla has yet to release an official statement on how the first day of downloads went, but no doubt we’ll hear from them soon enough, and hopefully it will clarify things.
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Windows : http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Mozilla-Firefox,0301-7374.html
Mac : http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Mozilla-Firefox,0301-7374-27688.html
Linux : http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Mozilla-Firefox,0301-7374-27690.html
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I'd be interested to see the browser speed tests again with thie one included.
No downloads in Madagascar yet.
I agree with dark_lord69. I wonder how Firefox users were made aware of the new 4.0 firefox though. The only way I got IE9 is by going to Microsoft's site.
I contributed 3 downloads to the total.
I thought this was kind of amusing when I took a screenshot.
Hmmm link didn't work,but here's what I was talking about.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums [...] loads2.jpg
Time to go get mine.
Well there goes Microsofts thunder of IE 9 right out the window.
About to hit the 8 million mark as I type this. WTG Mozilla!
Interesting to go take a look and see where in the world the browser is being downloaded.
I downloaded it yesterday and I like it.
Didn't contribute to one and probably won't end up doing so. Still, congratulations to the Mozilla team.
Got it yesterday and I'm a fan. The ability to sync bookmarks between my laptop, desktop, and phone is fantastic.
are the updates from Firefox 4 RC2 also counted????
Why did Toms stop user ratings of posts? Is it my browser? It lets you vote but then if you reload the page they are all at 0 again.
Apparently downloads from the ftp site link were not counted. So all of us early birds are not in the numbers.
Looks like it was just the link from firefox.com
Oh well.
Is this information gathered by the browser itself? Otherwise it would exclude all mirror downloads I think. I downloaded it from Launchpad.
Almost no downloads happening in SA cause people here use something good, like idk....Chrome
jk's gj mozilla team.
Are the auto-upgrades included? Most people with firefox are updated automatically.
Firefox is over rated IMO.
Interesting to go take a look and see where in the world the browser is being downloaded.
Lots of people staying up late to grab FF4.
Or maybe it's early on the other side of the Intl Date Line.
I was pleased to see all my plug-ins ready and working after the upgrade.
Very smooth sailing on the upgrade. Fast and easy to use.
Some of the FF4 popularity is probably due to the fact that enthusiasts look for upgrades, while the rest wait for Windows to tell them that there's an upgrade (or do it automatically.) Also...FF4 is available for XP while IE9.0 is not. So that's a good chunk of the population right there. I'd try Chrome, but Google is too anti-privacy for my tastes (referring to what the CEO said about user's privacy some time ago.) FF4 is working great so far!
wow, where are the 2.3millions IE9 users?
Are the auto-upgrades included? Most people with firefox are updated automatically.
Yes they are, I would be interested to see how many millions of "downloads" the end users are totally unaware of.
If MS had enabled an automatic update of all IE6, 7 & 8 users to IE9 in the same way, 2 things would have happened.
Firstly, IE9 would have jumped up to something silly like 100 million downloads on day and probably crashed the servers in the process.
Secondly, all the rabid Firefox fanboys would cry foul that MS was abusing it's monopoly - even they they did the same thing themselves.
So stop patting yourselves on the back, Firefox may have a lot of downloads but it still won't have the crown for total number of users, so throwing a ticker-tape parade for coming second just looks sad & desperate.
It seemed like my beta firefox pre-downloaded the update and was waiting for me to restart it to complete installation... when it asked me if i wanted to continue with the update, it didn't seem to download, it seemed to go straight to install... which, while the number is still impressive, makes me wonder, how firefox might have been gaining users for months, via beta, and then, by flipping the switch on the full version, triggered mass downloads.. just a thought...
Sure are a lot of people downloading it in Japan..seems..strange.
I agree with dark_lord69. I wonder how Firefox users were made aware of the new 4.0 firefox though. The only way I got IE9 is by going to Microsoft's site.
It was made available via an update for me, unlike IE9 which required me to install through an independent download. I'm thinking this probably had something to do with the significantly higher adoption rate.
Yeah, but you still need (in most of the cases; I'm really tired of "this will be the year of Linux") Windows to run Firefox.
I checked one hour and there wasn't an update, but the next hour, there it was.
at 24h mark, there were 6,9 mio downloads, almost half of them in europe
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