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Information Technology News Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record
Information Technology News Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record | Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 03 July 2008 | |
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Only manually-initiated downloads from Mozilla's network of mirror sites were counted in the attempt, so anyone auto-updating from a beta version was not counted. The unofficial count on the day was approximately 8.3 million, with the biggest contributions coming from the US, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, France, Iran, Italy, Canada, and Poland. Australia put in a decent showing on a per-capita basis, with well over 100,000 downloads counting towards the record. The current download count is over 28 million, and Net Applications' hour-by-hour reports show Firefox 3 has a web share of around 4 percent, though its 'quality assured' figures for the month of June gave it a 2.31 percent share, with Firefox 2 on 16.13 percent. Those figures are consistent, as Firefox 3 was released in the second half of the month. Mozilla claims a total of more than 160 million Firefox users. CONTINUED |
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