Firefox 3 browser downloads strong in first day


The new version of the Firefox Web browser was downloaded more than 8 million times in the first 24 hours it was available, the software's developers said Wednesday.

At its peak, Firefox's Web site was serving 17,000 copies a minute. Downloads came from some 200 countries, led by the United States, Germany, Japan, Spain and Britain.

Firefox supporters were seeking to set a world record for most software downloads in a 24-hour period. The category is new, and Guinness World Records must certify it, a process that could take a week or longer.

The free software continues to be available, but downloads won't count toward the potential record.

Tuesday's release was delayed more than an hour as visitors checking for the update overloaded Firefox's Web servers. The site was slow or unreachable for about two hours starting about 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, 15 minutes before the scheduled release time, according to AlertSite, an Internet performance monitoring company.

Firefox comes from Mozilla, an open-source community in which thousands of people, mostly volunteers, collectively develop free products. Firefox is the No. 2 Web browser behind Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

Firefox 3 includes enhancements to help users organize their frequently visited Web sites and block access to sites known to distribute viruses and other malicious software.

Users of Yahoo Inc.'s mail service can also use Firefox 3 to send e-mail by clicking a "mailto" link they might come across clicking on a name or a "contact us" link on a Web page. Previously such links could only open a standalone, desktop e-mail program.

Firefox 3 also offers other design and speed improvements.



Firefox is really very good and I do recommend you download today this incredible brownser. They have added new tools and updated many fuctions, now it's much better to use Firefox and if it already was better than IE now it's just unmatched.

Download now!

mafaltti

I'm using Mz firefox 3 now

There are 11,875,246 total downloads at this moment.

using it now and it is like god send

wow, I'm using firefox 3 ..it's the best browser ever

I`m still using FF2. Can anyone tell me the benefits you`ve found by using FF3 over FF2?

I downloaded that and it is amazing because it is working with all my previous plug-ins and extensions.

when i use ff3, i can't access several site. (mostly sites that host at Blcc).

anyone have same problem?

Perhaps you are the only one who reported this so far.

I didn't know until know that FF3 is available.
Downloading just now, thanks for sharing.

Just installed FireFox 3 and its working at least 2x faster.
thats great

I only use Firefox

I downloaded mine, and helped Mozilla getting into the Guinness Book of Records!
By the way, it works perfectly! I wouldn't use any other browser!

it is too slow for me! Anyway browser is really not Bad!

I was also able to change the default mailer from Outlook (which i don't use) to Gmail, which is great.

Why not this seems to be one of the browsers that protect you from a lot of the various bad things that happen online. How can you go wrong.

Firefox rocks. I use it most of the time.

I'm still using v 2.0.0.16 now..

Same here, I also use that, it is amazing great when using browser.

Love it!, use it all the time..

However, when I have a site I need to run in IE, I like to use Maxthon instead - which has a lot of cool features for just being a skin over top of the IE engine.

No problems with FF 3.0 so far, those who still didn't upgrade do it! FF 3.0 is rocking

A new update for FF3-

I`ve now upgraded to the 3 version of FF. Looks good.

FireFox 3.0 browser is a wonderfull version. I've got no problems with it as it works very perfectly.

Great, realist. Their new version resolved bugs of previous version. I have it set as well.

will try it