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Most downloads-world record set by Mozilla
Firefox 3
[June 19] SAN FRANCISCO,US--In the first 24 hours, Firefox
3, the new web browser from Mozilla
was available the software was downloaded 8.3 million times,
setting the world record for the most downloads in 24 hours.
Firefox
3 passed its predecessor's first-day download total
of 1.6 million in five hours, according to the company. Mozilla
- released the program late Tuesday.
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The software, available
for free, loads Web pages as much as three times quicker
than Firefox 2, increases protection against malicious software
attacks and makes it easier to access frequently visited sites,
Mozilla said.
At their busiest the servers were handling more than
9,000 downloads per minute. Within five hours the number of
downloads for Version 3.0 exceeded the 1.6 million set by
Firefox 2.0 in October 2006.
In total Firefox
3.0 was downloaded 8.3 million times over the 24 hour
record setting period. The figure beats the five million Mozilla
predicted before the day.
The surge of interest in Firefox
3.0 has continued and Mozilla
has reported that the software has now been downloaded more
than 10 million times.
However, some of the shine of the launch was removed
by reports that a security firm had already found a flaw in
the browser.
DV Labs/Tipping Point reported a flaw only five
hours after Firefox 3.0 debuted. The flaw potentially lets
an attacker take over a PC if a user clicks on a booby-trapped
link.
Firefox
accounts for about 18 percent of the market for browsers,
software that connects computer users to the Web, according
to Net Applications, based in Aliso Viejo, California. Microsoft,
the world's largest software maker, has 74 percent.
Forbes
magazine: "Firefox
has become one of the most important pieces of software around
today as consumers shift from using their PCs to run applications
living on their hard drives to a communications device able
to connect with applications living on distant servers."
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