Firefox 4 downloads hit 24 million in first 3 days

Posted on Friday, March 25 2011 @ 22:07 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Bit Tech notes downloads of Mozilla's Firefox 4 browser have topped 24 million in three days.
Firefox 4 was officially announced on Tuesday 22 March, and netted 7.1 million downloads in the first 24 hours it was available. This is three times as many downloads as Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 browser managed during the first day of its launch on 14 March.

To see how many downloads Firefox 4 has currently notched up, take a look at the Download Stats page, where you can also see the proportion of downloads attributed to different locations.
At press time, the download counter stood at 26.53 million.


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