We already knew that Mozilla had a record breaking day on June 17th when Firefox 3 was downloaded close to 8 million times, despite the download site not working for at least part of the morning. Now, Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3 has indeed made it into the Guinness Book of World Records with 8,002,530 downloads. Mozilla had set itself a goal of only 5 million downloads.
If you participated in the event by downloading Firefox 3 on the 17th (and even if you didn't, but want to pretend you did), you can now also download your own, personalized certificate from the Firefox site.
A number of analysts expect Firefox to capture a 20% market share this month and if the downloads for Firefox 3 are any indication, Mozilla might indeed be getting close to this. Here on ReadWriteWeb, more than 50% of our readers already use Firefox.
While quite a few extensions didn't yet work with Firefox 3 when it was released, most developers have made their plugins compatible with Firefox by now.
Microsoft is expected to release the next beta of its Internet Explorer by August 2008, though the time for the final release isn't quite clear yet. Last month, Opera also upgraded its browser to version 9.5, which garnered a number of favorable reviews.
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Well this just rawwwks. 'nuff said dude.
Posted by: Devon Young | July 2, 2008 11:20 PM
I've downloaded my certificate and I'm loving the new Firefox so it's all good. I wouldn't be surprised if takeup goes over the 50% mark in line with RWW readers.
Posted by: The Swan | July 3, 2008 12:09 AM
While personally, I like Opera more, I have to admire the dedication and loyalty that Fx fans have for their software. 8M downloads in one day is just unreal, and it certainly says something for Free/OS software.
I'm happy to be a part of the 8M, and gladly await the day we overthrow our Redmond overlords.
Posted by: Bryan
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July 3, 2008 4:04 AM
LOL @ Redmond overlords :)
Posted by: Yuvi
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July 3, 2008 4:10 AM
Microsoft's response:
Firefox sets World Record, Microsoft implodes
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f6e3EJqySpc
Posted by: Vin | July 3, 2008 7:14 AM
Personally, I'm sorry that I downloaded ver 3.0. It crashes everytime I open a new tab. I like Firefox, but this is the worst release that I've ever used from Mozilla.
Posted by: Jeffrey | July 3, 2008 12:04 PM
I agree with #6. FireFox 3 has been awful. It crashes all the time, refuses to open on the monitor I want (no matter what I do) and has random and weird rendering issues where I click tabs and nothing happens. I have to minimize down to the desktop and maximize a few times before it gets "unstuck". I wish I never would have installed it. I love FireFox 2. Maybe I should downgrade.
Posted by: Jason | July 3, 2008 4:21 PM