Firefox 3 Tops 11.5 Million Downloads & Counting

[Shrygue]

via Gizmodo


Mozilla set out to have the world download 5 million copies of its Firefox 3 browser in 24 hours when it launched on Tuesday, in order to create a new Guinness World Record.

While the Guinness experts are still counting - Mozilla is claiming 8.3 million in 24 hours - that record is probably theirs but downloads are still zooming, now topping 11.5 million.

After a slow start on Tuesday, UK surfers bounced back against their European rivals with downloads now standing at more than 420,000, against France's 385,000, Spain's 392,000 and Italy's 325,000. The Germans are running away with the European Firefox Fan Trophy though with more than 960,000 downloads.

Overall, the US is the biggest downloader, with 3.4 million.

There have been some reports of crashing with Firefox 3.0, and issues with rollbacks, but we want to know how you're getting on. Is Firefox 3.0 the dog's bollocks or just bollocks?

[JKKDARK]

Yeah, I expected it to be a success. It is the best web browser ever !

[ExcruciationX]

I've had it crash twice, but that was when I had ten browser windows open all playing a youtube video for comic effect.

[Triv1um]

Sorry JKK, I really dont like FF3.

FF2 was stable, fast etc.

FF3 is a unstable pile of crap.

I used to think Firefox was the best, now I've changed my mind now that 3 is out.

Bring back FF2!

[Shrygue]

Maybe you could try Opera instead, it's a pretty good broswer. For me, it's perfect for news posting here.

[bah]

I haven't had it crash on me yet. I normally have 10+ tabs open, sometimes with several youtube vids loading (not all playing at once). Often leave the browser open for days at a time.

I've probably had firefox crash on me probably 3 or 4 times total since I started using it when it was called phoenix.
It does love RAM when you have a lot of tabs open, but nothing else is using it at the time and I still have about a gig free so it has never really bothered me.