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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 commentsDougJun 18th 2008 12:04PM
I find it really interesting that Iran has more downloads than most countries, including Canada and China (separately, not combined).
idodialogJun 18th 2008 12:13PM
Gotta put a hand up for Australia - less than 8% the pop of Russia yet about the same number of downloads - easily comparable in the No. of downloads from China yet barely a drop in their ocean of people. And what hapenned to the super techno oriented Koreans - most wired country in Asia (on earth?) 43,000 downloads - what DO they use there?
I've no idea but even compared to parts of Europe where the Fox is popular Australia seems to have the biggest per capita uptake. (oh and did I say what a good browser it is the awesome address bar is, well, awesome!
miaousseJun 18th 2008 1:07PM
mauritania has 0
RiddarJun 18th 2008 12:57PM
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.
RidJun 18th 2008 12:57PM
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.
AndriyJun 18th 2008 1:58PM
seems Guinea-bissau hate FF3 :)
Juan PolichoJun 18th 2008 2:28PM
I Just had a Vision!
I was suddenly Reminded of the World map in Command & Conquer Red Alert I XD
Go Soviet Union! LOL!
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6277/dibujoyz0.jpg
Go Firefox 3!, 8M DOWNLOADS! :D
AndriyJun 19th 2008 7:36PM
we are going ))
FernandoJun 18th 2008 8:58PM
...and what`s most important I think...try to compare the nations download X total population...
That`s how you`re going to see poverty and technoly access.
sdragonJun 19th 2008 7:20AM
looks like a map of idiots worldwide having nothing better to do than wasteing their time for a company.. what is next? A "most IPhones sold on one day" contest? I bet people will run to the stores and buy their iphones just cause the company claimes it is so great.. And later they will go protesting about milk prices and ask for a state benefit