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Internet Explorer 9 went gold on Monday and Redmond is already mighty pleased with the enthusiasm that has greeted the release of the latest version of what is still, technically speaking, the world’s most popular browser. According to Microsoft, IE9 was downloaded 2.35 million times during the 24 hours following its release, which translates to “over 27 downloads every second, or over 240 downloads every 9 seconds.”
Think IE9’s showing was impressive? Here is how some other browsers fared in their first 24 hours.
Firefox 3.0: The launch of the browser on June 17, 2008 was dubbed “Downloads Day 2008” by Mozilla. It turned out to be a marketing coup of sorts as the browser set a new world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours with 8 million first-day downloads.
Firefox 3.6: The last major release of Mozilla’s popular browser was downloaded 4.5 million times.
Opera 11: Launched just a week before last Christmas, Opera 11 raced to 6.7 million downloads on its very first day.
Safari 4: Apple recorded 11 million Safari 4 downloads within the first three days of its release in June, 2009.
Chrome: The release of the very first version of Google’s web browser in September, 2008 was a resounding success as it managed to capture roughly 1% of the browser market on the very first day despite being restricted to Windows XP back then.
What are your thoughts on IE9: A truly modern browser or a bit too little, too late?
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eday_2010
March 17, 2011 at 12:22pm
I installed it on the wifey's laptop and tried it out. It is wonderful. Much faster than IE8 and very streamlined. If I wasn't still running XP, I would install it on my system and relegate Firefox to a secondary browser again.
franco@bcfellow...
March 17, 2011 at 8:56am
Okay, I downloaded IE9 but ran into many problems. Engadget, legitreviews, hulu, and many other sites did not load at all. After unistalling and reinstalling, updating graphics driver, disabling addons, etc., etc, nothing worked, those sites still did not display correctly. Legitreviews was nothing but a big grey box. Hulu was just a big blank black screen I called Microsoft and they told me that this version of IE9 is still not the final version. It's RTM (release to market) which is not the final version. Apparently, Microsoft will release the "real" final version in a few days. All the tech could do was get me to uninstall IE9, which basically reverts you back to IE8. Even though I told her that others seemed to be viewing those sites just fine with IE9, it made no difference. I even read her this Maximum PC article, where 2.35 million people have download IE9. I guess going "gold" isn't what it used to be.
Has anybody else out there experienced this kind of problem? I installed IE 9 on 2 machines and they both have the same problem (both running Win 7 Pro 64-bit).
dethdeks
March 17, 2011 at 7:56am
how many of those "2.35 million" downloads were of computers with windows updates set to automaitcly download and install? i would also like to see the true numbers of actual user downloads not just windows updates. im sure that number will be significantly lower.
devastator_2000
March 17, 2011 at 11:06am
I have 6 PC's at my house, all running Windows 7 Ultamate. Not a one of those computers have IE9 as an option for download in "Windows Update".
ShyLinuxGuy
March 17, 2011 at 10:58am
That could very well be true...
I shall boot up my Windows when I get home to see if that is the case (I look through all the updates and weed out what I don't want/need). I'm sure the IE9 downloads would be significantly lower w/o updates.
JlzMT
March 17, 2011 at 7:37am
If you use MediaMonkey to organize your digital music, installing IE9 (as of 03/16/2011) will make MediaMonkey windows lock-up when you try to resize them.
