Firefox 3.5 Downloaded 5 Million Times In 24 Hours
Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 05:30AM 
Impressed? Since we are in the middle of the Great Browser Wars, any launch of a major browser requires an old fashioned pissing contest. Safari did so many million in so many days. Chrome did a fraction of that, but was XX% faster than so an so. It goes on and on. Still, nothing comes close to the world record setting eight million downloads that FF 3 did on launch day.
Even so, Firefox 3.5 did a very respectable 5 million in 24 hours, which breaks down to:
- 208,333.33 downloads per hour
- 3472.22 downloads per minute
- 57.87 downloads per second.
- 5.787 downloads per 1/10th of a second.
Of course, the total Firefox numbers are also quite impressive. Firefox has seen a total of 950 millions downloads, of which 500 million came in the last year. When Firefox breaks through a billion downloads, expect a party in the open source world, and mock funeral in Redmond. Actually, a Billion-Firefox party sounds like fun, who’s down for drinks?
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