The Mozilla team had thought about scaling a cool 5 Million downloads in 1 day (yeah… 5,000,000 downloads in 3600*24 seconds… nearly 58 downloads-per-second) based on the assumption the Firefox was popular…
What they didn’t know was exactly HOW popular was this fiery fox. Nearly TWICE as much… yeah… Our very beloved FIREFOX 3, grandson of the original Firefox, crossed the 8 MILLION mark on the day of its release… and that’s because the site would have been already clogged for late comers… and guess what?? it crossed the 14 MILLION mark in 72 hours of it’s release (which was Tuesday, 13th June)
Reports of some security flaws, and even my own (small?) grouse about FF3 (that it starts typing in reverse after some Java applications run) haven’t stopped people from drooling over this newbie (which actually has grown smarter and securer than even IE7 or FF2.xx)
Now Mozilla are ready to pack up the data and send it to Guinness World Records, which would be a first-of-its-kind record, and a hard one to break (for some time, atleast).
1 comment:
people are really zany about firefox...well, they shud really think about switching over to opera...its much faster than firefox..
also i came to know frm somewhere that this new firefox schmirefox has many flaws (related to php n sthn like tht, its more unsafe than firefox 2. hey i know .php is an extension) i'm not tht techno oriented guy..thts all i know abt all this,.
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