Firefox 4 Overtakes IE9's First-Day Download Tally within Hours of Launch
Just a week back, Microsoft was brimming with joy as it shared the first-day download stats of its latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 (IE9): 2.35 million downloads within 24 hours of its release on March 14, 2011. Even though pretty impressive, IE9's first day showing seemed to pale in comparison with some of the other major browser launches in the recent past. But if Microsoft still had any lingering delusions about its standing in the first-day-downloads war, they must have vanished earlier today as soon as Firefox blazed past IE9's launch day downloads within 7 hours of being launched. Hit the jump for more.
The open-source outfit's latest browser has been downloaded over 4 million times at the time of writing. The FF4 download stats can be tracked live through a special page on Mozilla's site. A continent-wise breakdown of the downloads at this point reveals that the vast majority (nearly three-fourths) of downloads are coming from Europe and North America, with the former leading between the two. Downloads can even be “broken down all the way down to the city level.”
“When someone clicks the download button on mozilla.com or asks for an upgrade from inside Firefox, we approximate their location based on IP address and store anonymous aggregate location information in our database,” reads Mozilla's description of how the downloads are counted.
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Kira Shannen
July 29, 2011 at 10:46am
I was curious whether the "Add Comment" button works, and it seems that it does. Maybe you're having troubles with FF4, but I'm currently writing this comment using it. The only solution I can find for you is to use a spyware remover, maybe that's what's bugging your computer.
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Blaze589
March 23, 2011 at 8:41am
I really like FF4. The one thing that impresses me the most is that with the built in hardware acceleration streaming HD flash movies doesn't heat my CPU as much as it use to in FF 3.6. With FF 3.6 it was between 30-40 C. Now it's near idle temps; 23-29 C
Btw I can't add comments either. Some smart users recommended pasting the following link in the address bar to comment:
http://www.maximumpc.com/comment/reply/17762
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growler
March 23, 2011 at 6:58am
I tried to add a comment but will not let me so i had t reply to a comment, i am using IE8. I love Firefox 4, but it is still crashing on my laptop. I can't use IE9 on my laptop cause it runs on Windows XP. I am hoping firefox makes their new browser more stable, cause sometimes i get frustrated and load opera instead, but i really love firefox...Anyway to everyone who has worked hard building this new browser, thanks...
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opulent_rigs
March 22, 2011 at 8:50pm
I can assure you that absolutely nobody is blocking comments. Please provide more details about the issues you are currently experiencing with the site so someone can look into them.
Thanks in advance.
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ogre123
March 23, 2011 at 3:25am
"ADD A Comment" does not work for me in firefox, so I'm adding a comment here in the reply section. I just wish Firefox 4 was as fast as IE9.
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timlider
March 23, 2011 at 6:54am
The Add a comment does not work in FireFox 4. It works in FireFox 4 with an IE Tab though.
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Maxpcblocksreal...
March 22, 2011 at 9:00pm
I've been corresponding with a Futre US rep to help me figure out why when using my real user login, max pc spam filter is flagging me as spam. He sugguested that I create a new user to see if it's still happening which obviously it isn't. I figured this is the most appropriate username and comment to post as a test!
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opulent_rigs
March 22, 2011 at 9:05pm
Yeah that it is. I guess they will be able to sort it out then. Thanks
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SilverSurferNHS
March 23, 2011 at 2:00am
same deal here, its only slightly more annoying than all the spam there used to be...
Holy crap it got through!
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Mighty BOB!
March 23, 2011 at 7:23am
FF 3.6.15 and I'm having the same problem. Pressing the Add Comment button doesn't do anything (the form doesn't come up; only "#comments_top_anchor" is appended to the end of the URL) but I can reply to another user's comment.
Oh and @article: Surprise! No wait I mean the opposite of that. :P
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pastorbob
March 23, 2011 at 4:29pm
The only way I have been able to post a comment for the last 24 hours is by clicking on reply. The "Add Comment" Box does nothing. Doesn't matter what computer, browser or OS I use.
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