Firefox rocks 2 million downloads in 24 hours

Firefox's recent release last week did pretty good. Everyone I spoke with started downloading Firefox 2.0 the second they heard about the release. I just came across some fascinating numbers from Mozilla that proves the Firefox browser does indeed have a hardcore following that is steadily on the rise.

• Firefox 1.0 had 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours
• Firefox 1.5 had 1.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours
• Firefox 2.0 had 2 million downloads in the first 24 hours. That's 30 downloads per second happening behind the scenes.

Now compare Firefox's results to IE7's recent release that took four days to hit the 3 million download mark. IE's results could be due to the fact that individuals and IT departments worldwide are always hesitant about installing the latest version of anything Microsoft releases. IE7 is still on my download list once it becomes a little more secure.

Who was part of those stats? And who is still awaiting more fixes to the IE7 bug list?

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