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03-26-2011, 04:16 AM
Four days after the release of its Firefox 4 browser, Mozilla on Friday released some stats about the launch, revealing that it hit 15.85 million downloads in the first 48 hours, with an average of 5,503 downloads per minute.
"The response to Mozilla Firefox 4 has been astounding," Mozilla said in a blog post (http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/25/the-first-48-hours-of-mozilla-firefox-4/) that also included an infographic (click below) with launch stats.
After day one, the download tally was at 7.1 million. At its peak, Firefox 4 was attracting 10,200 downloads per minute about 91.7 downloads per second. After the first 48 hours, users had downloaded 193.4 megabytes worth of browser.
The top region downloading Firefox 4 was Europe, with 6.63 million, while the U.S. was the top country with 4.45 million.
Mozilla had some trivia to go along with its numbers. If each download were a mile, for example, that would equal 33 round trips to the moon. The 48-hour download tally is also bigger than the population of Los Angeles, the 12th largest city in the world, Mozilla said. Finally, it's also equal to the entire Internet population in 1995.
As of 5:30pm on Friday, the tally was at 26.6 million.
Microsoft's (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382631,00.asp#) IE9, which made its debut last week, reached 2.35 million downloads (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382120,00.asp) in its first 24 hours. However, at this point, its reach is limited. IE9 can only be downloaded on machines running Windows Vista and Windows7 (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382631,00.asp#) - not XP - in order to accomplish its hardware acceleration using those OSes' version of DirectX multimedia APIs. According to February data (http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10) from Net Applications, about 55 percent of computer users worldwide still use Windows XP, followed by 23 percent on Windows 7 and 11 percent on Vista.
On Wednesday, the Firefox team tweeted (http://twitter.com/firefox/status/50309914228297729) that "the IE team just sent us a congratulatory cake for #fx4."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382631,00.asp
"The response to Mozilla Firefox 4 has been astounding," Mozilla said in a blog post (http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/25/the-first-48-hours-of-mozilla-firefox-4/) that also included an infographic (click below) with launch stats.
After day one, the download tally was at 7.1 million. At its peak, Firefox 4 was attracting 10,200 downloads per minute about 91.7 downloads per second. After the first 48 hours, users had downloaded 193.4 megabytes worth of browser.
The top region downloading Firefox 4 was Europe, with 6.63 million, while the U.S. was the top country with 4.45 million.
Mozilla had some trivia to go along with its numbers. If each download were a mile, for example, that would equal 33 round trips to the moon. The 48-hour download tally is also bigger than the population of Los Angeles, the 12th largest city in the world, Mozilla said. Finally, it's also equal to the entire Internet population in 1995.
As of 5:30pm on Friday, the tally was at 26.6 million.
Microsoft's (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382631,00.asp#) IE9, which made its debut last week, reached 2.35 million downloads (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382120,00.asp) in its first 24 hours. However, at this point, its reach is limited. IE9 can only be downloaded on machines running Windows Vista and Windows7 (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382631,00.asp#) - not XP - in order to accomplish its hardware acceleration using those OSes' version of DirectX multimedia APIs. According to February data (http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10) from Net Applications, about 55 percent of computer users worldwide still use Windows XP, followed by 23 percent on Windows 7 and 11 percent on Vista.
On Wednesday, the Firefox team tweeted (http://twitter.com/firefox/status/50309914228297729) that "the IE team just sent us a congratulatory cake for #fx4."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382631,00.asp