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Our Blogs Core Dump Safari 11 million, Firefox 150 million
Our Blogs Core Dump Safari 11 million, Firefox 150 million | Safari 11 million, Firefox 150 million |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 15 June 2009 | |
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Apple subsequently issued a media release claiming that Safari 4.0 was downloaded more than 11 million times in three days, with more than six million of those downloads being the Windows version. A matter of days after Safari 4's debut, Firefox 3.0.11 appeared with security and other bug fixes. According to Asa Dotzler, director of community development at Mozilla, "Firefox 3.0.11 was downloaded about 150 million times in the last 24 hours." It appears that both Mozilla and Apple are counting automatic updates as well as manual downloads. At this stage of the game it seems unlikely that many people are downloading Firefox for the first time. The vast majority of those 150 million would have been patching an earlier 3.0.x installation. CONTINUED |
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