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Firefox 3 tears up the charts
TAGS: Open Source
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/open_source/index.html>
Looks like the newest release of Firefox 3 is setting new records for
downloads. Clearly there was a lot of pent-up demand for a revision. In
their first day as a GA release, Firefox had more than over 14 million
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/18/Mozilla_logs_8_millionplus_Firefox_3_downloads_in_a_day_1.html8%20million%20downloads%20worldwide%3C/a%3E,%20breaking%20all%20records.%20%20The%20downloads%20have%20continued%20at%20a%20rapid%20clip,%20with%20%3Ca%20href=>
within 72 hours.
That's a pretty impressive feat for a product with essentially zero
marketing budget. Firefox 3 adds a raft of new features, including
beefed up security, more efficient use of memory as well as many minor
usability tweaks. InfoWorld's test center
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/17/25TC-firefox_1.html> put it
through its paces and came out with very positive recommendations.
While Firefox is most popular in Europe and with tech-savvy crowd, (now
about 33% of InfoWorld readers), on a worldwide basis, Firefox has about
18% market share (6.2% for the new release)
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2573> compared to IE's overall
74% market share
<http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/06/20/firefox-wins-the-battle-but-the-browser-war-still-wages/>.
So there's still a long way to go.
Firefox 3 tears up the charts
TAGS: Open Source
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/open_source/index.html>
Looks like the newest release of Firefox 3 is setting new records for
downloads. Clearly there was a lot of pent-up demand for a revision. In
their first day as a GA release, Firefox had more than over 14 million
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/18/Mozilla_logs_8_millionplus_Firefox_3_downloads_in_a_day_1.html8%20million%20downloads%20worldwide%3C/a%3E,%20breaking%20all%20records.%20%20The%20downloads%20have%20continued%20at%20a%20rapid%20clip,%20with%20%3Ca%20href=>
within 72 hours.
That's a pretty impressive feat for a product with essentially zero
marketing budget. Firefox 3 adds a raft of new features, including
beefed up security, more efficient use of memory as well as many minor
usability tweaks. InfoWorld's test center
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/17/25TC-firefox_1.html> put it
through its paces and came out with very positive recommendations.
While Firefox is most popular in Europe and with tech-savvy crowd, (now
about 33% of InfoWorld readers), on a worldwide basis, Firefox has about
18% market share (6.2% for the new release)
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2573> compared to IE's overall
74% market share
<http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/06/20/firefox-wins-the-battle-but-the-browser-war-still-wages/>.
So there's still a long way to go.