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United States loves Firefox 3, Turkmenistan, not so much
Anyway, as of this morning, Firefox 3 had been downloaded over 6 million times, with more than 2 million downloads coming from the US. Mozilla has set up a nifty little page where you can track downloads by region. And all we can say is Turkmenistan had better step up its game. Seriously, 7 downloads? There have been more downloads from Greenland. We didn't even realize that people lived in Greenland.
Of course population size, poverty levels, and access to computers all come into play, which is why much of Africa is shaded in blue on the map (meaning most countries have had less than 1000 downloads) while more developed nations like the US, Canada, Spain, the UK, France, Germany, China, Russia, and India are colored in orange or red to show that 50,000 or more downloads have come from those locations.
The world record attempt concludes this afternoon at 11:16am Pacific, 2:16pm Eastern. Anyone want to take a stab at what the final number will be? Keep in mind, Mozilla's already secured a world record, since this is a new category for the Guinness Book of World Records.
In other news, you can also download the portable edition of Firefox 3 today. This is a version of the web browser that you can run from a USB stick without installing anything to your system. That means you can run Firefox 3 portable without uninstalling Firefox 2 or any earlier release candidates, which makes the portable application a great way to test the new browser without making a full commitment to it.
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Subscribe to commentsrevolutiondudeJun 18th 2008 9:28AM
Notice how Chad only has one download. That's pretty cool, though.
Almost every single country in the world uses firefox....that's pretty interesting. Even countries in Africa that I have never even heard of.
coleJun 18th 2008 9:31AM
Everyone except North Korea that is. Maybe that's an export restriction or something.
All 3 people in Montserrat have downloaded Firefox.
anasqtieshJun 18th 2008 9:40AM
yeah... this could be a selling point: "Firefox 3 teaches you geography!!" maybe not.
LaneJun 18th 2008 11:59AM
French Guiana doesn't have any downloads either.
JeebusJun 18th 2008 9:28AM
Where can I get the x64 version?
OingoJun 19th 2008 5:45PM
This is useless because it's not broken down by percentage of households with internet connection.
Kim SchulzJun 18th 2008 9:35AM
Notice that ff3 have been downloaded around 14mio times from download.com sofar - not bad :-)
Jacob ButlerJun 18th 2008 9:32AM
Guinea-Bissau has had 0 downloads!!! (next to Senegal in Africa)
ShawnJun 18th 2008 9:35AM
Um, a globe is not a circle...it's a sphere.
Brad LinderJun 18th 2008 9:38AM
That'll teach me to blog before I've had any caffeine. Fixed.
james delaneyJun 18th 2008 10:38AM
There has been 1 download from the Falklands Islands so far.
@Shawn: love your comment.
Juan PolichoJun 18th 2008 10:24AM
Go Argentina :D!!!!
Its funny how it was a complete bumpy start and now they are managing to pull everything through, 9 hours ago I remember that it was around 2.7M downloads and today I was really surprised, I just woke up and I found this amazing number.
I hope it reaches a number around 7.5M or even more.
I also remember http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-whos-that-opera-says-4-7-million-have-downloaded-ve/
that entry, and all I can say is Firefox completely kicked Opera's ass.
But well its not about the challenge or the downloads, the best thing about this is that Open source is being used by more and more people around the world and that is awesome, even if its a slow start this is definitely a whole new chapter.
Those are my thoughts.
Saludos
Juan
RiddarJun 18th 2008 12:56PM
Coincidentally, an infuriatingly absurd bug made me go and download Opera 9.5 just yesterday after giving up on Firefox 3. Firefox 3 would not launch from the start menu quick link when installed into a non-default directory, something simple do to with Firefox 2. After several different tries, uninstalls, reinstalls, and a bit of searching, I gave up, downloaded Opera, and have been fairly impressed with it so far. I have used Firefox 3 too, I gave it a shot and it isn't bad, but it doesn't make sense for me to keep a browser that must be installed to a non-functional partition of my hard drive which I plan on formatting soon.
Juan PolichoJun 18th 2008 1:21PM
Riddar, Something that the installer made in my case is to Duplicate the Quick Launch buttons, I just erased the old ones...
In your case try looking for a duplicate or if you don't have the duplicate, Hit properties on the quick launch and add the route to the .exe manually, that is if you want to use Firefox 3.
6 Minutes Remaining and its already on 7.779.679!!!!
julianJun 18th 2008 1:37PM
GO firefox
kicking some Opera ass
Opera is ok i just feel that they whine too much
their numbers are not as good. period. Even though they claim that they are counted as IE and all that nonsense
Michael K PateJun 18th 2008 10:24AM
Hey, lay off Turkmenistan, at least they have some. Svalbard and Jan Mayen are showing up with zero downloads.
BufsabreJun 18th 2008 10:36AM
DAMN YOU TURKMENISTAN
Philip De RopJun 19th 2008 2:43AM
Go easy on Turkmenistan. The government just opened up access to the internet for the normal population about a month ago. At the rate of 20 new hooked up households per week, I am amazed they have 7 downloads. I wonder what these figures would be like when the downloads are rated against the number of internet connections.
ToddJun 18th 2008 10:58AM
so.... everyone w/ a computer in Turkmenistan downloaded Firefox.
Christina WarrenJun 18th 2008 11:56AM
Way to be a global imperialist Brad! (I'm kidding, everyone, I'm kidding!)