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2 million FF downloads in 24 hrs

26 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/2-million-ff-downloads-in-24-hrs.39798/

hemant_mathur
hemant_mathur Original post #1
Oct 28, 2006 at 10:47 PM
Source : *www.beltzner.ca/mike/archives/2006/10/27/firefox_nation_unpimp_your_browser.html?

Apparently, people loves them some Firefox. Within 24 hours of the official launch on Tuesday, there were over 2 million people using Firefox 2, and we were seeing a peak rate of more than 30 downloads per second.

Also, this blows IE 7's three million downloads in the first four days of release.
IE's figure according to: *blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/24/ie7-hits-the-street.aspx
Third Eye
Third Eye #2
Oct 28, 2006 at 11:08 PM
OMG! 2 million in one day... FF rocks. ;)
J
jack// ani #3
Oct 28, 2006 at 11:08 PM
wow.....i was also one of who downloaded firefox.
gaurav21r
gaurav21r #5
Oct 29, 2006 at 1:14 AM
Anyone knows the stats for when Opera 9 came out?
eddie
eddie #6
Oct 29, 2006 at 1:23 AM
...and do remember that it DOES NOT include auto updates. They have not enabled auto updates *yet* so the number will hopefully keep on growing :)
sabret00the
sabret00the #7
Oct 29, 2006 at 5:24 AM
seems like its time to migrate to mozilla
abhijit_reddevil
abhijit_reddevil #8
Oct 29, 2006 at 6:46 AM
And I was also one of the 2 million downloaders. FF rox!!!
nitish_mythology
nitish_mythology #9
Oct 29, 2006 at 7:47 AM
Firefox rocks.......
Wll upgrade when Digit provides it!
paragkalra
paragkalra #10
Oct 29, 2006 at 8:36 AM
Its time for IE to hang its boots......great going FIREFOX
JGuru
JGuru #11
Oct 29, 2006 at 12:26 PM
FireFox is world's 2nd most used Web browser. Great going FireFox!!
Yeah, When MS enables auto updates that number will very high.
Zeeshan Quireshi
Zeeshan Quireshi #12
Oct 29, 2006 at 12:46 PM
does it count the downloads from mozilla's FTP before official announcements , coz a lot of ppl downloaded from there too .
hemant_mathur
hemant_mathur #14
Oct 29, 2006 at 4:55 PM
^^ Actually it's more than 2 million d/l so one less wouldn't take it below 2 m.
M
mehulved #15
Oct 29, 2006 at 6:58 PM
JGuru said:
FireFox is world's 2nd most used Web browser. Great going FireFox!!
Yeah, When MS enables auto updates that number will very high.
Click to expand...
Why would MS enable auto-update and how? :rolleyes:
king007
king007 #16
Oct 29, 2006 at 7:05 PM
^^^MS will push IE 7 through automatic updates from Nov 1 and force people to use their new browser. People who do not want to update will have to install a patch to stop auto updates from updating older version of IE.

I was not amongst the 2 million people who downloaded because I could not wait and I downloaded before it was officially released... :)

Yeah Firefox Rocks, atleast they have real lovers and no forceful users like MS forces people to use IE by bundling with windows and then forcing them to update.... IE sucks....
william
william #17
Oct 29, 2006 at 7:11 PM
wow............ 2 million is huge number.
phreak0ut
phreak0ut #18
Oct 29, 2006 at 8:17 PM
Why doesn't MS accept defeat and close down. Hehehe.....
Tech Geek
Tech Geek #19
Oct 29, 2006 at 8:18 PM
Thats a really huge no.
Ankur Gupta
Ankur Gupta #20
Oct 29, 2006 at 8:39 PM
will be interesting to c the total share of each browser after a couple of months...
S
sudhir_mangla #22
Nov 1, 2006 at 1:39 PM
Don't download FF 2.0 it is the most buggy FF ever release to the users.
release.
Check out the folowing link for more information
*listvine.com/2006/10/25/9-reasons-not-to-upgrade-to-firefox-20/
nishant_nms
nishant_nms #23
Nov 2, 2006 at 7:13 AM
I was also one of them
naveen_reloaded
naveen_reloaded #24
Nov 2, 2006 at 1:34 PM
its the same thing with a better skin....

anyway lets see how it works
busyanuj
busyanuj #26
Nov 2, 2006 at 4:25 PM
yeah, firefox 2 (to some extent) is simply fx 1.5 + some add-ons.