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Firefox 4 officially launched, 1,000,000 downloads and climbing fast
Update: You can keep track of Firefox 4 downloads around the globe with Glow, a beautiful pseudo-real-time download counter. There's also Twitter Party, which builds a Firefox logo mosaic from Firefox-related tweets.
Along with the download page, there is a lovely HTML5ified tour of Firefox 4's new features, covering Sync, hardware acceleration, the new privacy controls, and links to the Web O' Wonder demos, how to set up Panorama, and more.
At the time of writing there have been 385,000 downloads, which we assume are downloads from yesterday's 'pre-release' flurry. Let's see if we can get it up over 8 million in the next 24 hours and secure another world record for Mozilla! It looks like this is the same build that we linked to yesterday, so there shouldn't be any need to re-download. Update: Just two and a half hours in and the number of downloads is over 1.1 million.
Once you've installed Firefox 4, check our complete guide. We also have a fine selection of Firefox 4's finest restartless add-ons -- and if you're a first-timer, or you're defecting from Chrome or Internet Explorer, check out our must-have list of add-ons.
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Subscribe to commentsSpeedGunMar 22nd 2011 10:28AM
Woot!
I have been waiting for this for a loooong time.
BTW: If you're looking for some nice restartless addons why not try some of mine :)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/4793032/
jakethatMar 22nd 2011 10:43AM
@SpeedGun
Yeah, sooo long I swithed to Chrome and came back to Firefox camp. Cause it's the best.
MitchRapp81Mar 22nd 2011 12:08PM
heh I'll give it another try. I used firefox from launch to about 2.7 before switching to Chrome and never looking back ... Chrome is just faster and less buggy overall.
Btw this is sick. less than 2 hours in and already 805k downloads! This could reach 10 million once more people know it's out.
No wonder Microsoft is pushing IE9 to automatic windows updates... 2 million in 24 hours for the "world leading browser" compared to 8-10 million that FF4 will do... quite epic.
I would love to see Google do a launch like this. But then again, Chrome users like myself usually get updates automatically installed without us really noticing until we are asked to restart the browser (which takes 4 seconds)
Heaven'sHellslayerMar 22nd 2011 1:52PM
Awesome stuff. I do have to admit I have the big three downloaded and I use all of them. It is like each one does something better. uggg
DaveMar 22nd 2011 3:49PM
I found Download Squad:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12021117/DownloadSquadFF4Mosaic.png
XenoMar 23rd 2011 8:25AM
@Dave - That figure was pretty cool, where did you get that?
botapalamidesMar 22nd 2011 4:24PM
Firefox 4 beat IE9 WOOT!
RichMar 22nd 2011 6:50PM
Is it me or does FF4 seem a hell of a lot slower then it was?
SlashZakuMar 22nd 2011 7:32PM
@Rich
Still using 3.6.15. I'm on a Dell Dimension 2300 with 512MB of RAM but FF4 does feel slower on here compared to 3.5 or 3.6. Not sure why though. Kind of wish Mozilla would release a barebones version of FF4 sans Sync and Panorama (no need for either).
JoshMar 23rd 2011 8:22AM
@Rich
Try turning off hardware acceleration. Oddly enough, it seems to be slowing down Firefox on certain systems.
jfjbMar 22nd 2011 11:10PM
anew toy !! everyone drools !! and then another one around the corner !! this world is a circus and we love it, don't wee?
jfjbMar 22nd 2011 11:12PM
P.S. and 4,029,962 downloads at 23:27 Florida time. Spinning too fast, way to go !!
XenoMar 23rd 2011 8:11AM
5,839,321 - Midday GMT
I think 24 hours has passed already.
Does anyone know at what instance Mozilla Firefox 4 was released?
DaveMar 23rd 2011 12:03PM
@Xeno It's from their link to http://twitterparty.mozilla.org/en-US in the article.
Crazy SerbMar 23rd 2011 10:48AM
Downloaded it, tried to use it with Firebug for a few hours to get a certain website tweaked a bit... and got stuck with FF using 2GB of RAM (out of 12GB available, but nevertheless) and choking, slowing down, barely allowing me to switch between the 5 tabs I had open.
Needless to say, that memory leak issue is still more than present in this version 4 as well and I'm going back to Chrome until they fix it properly, instead of adding a patch here and a patch there.
Much ado about nothing.
XenoMar 24th 2011 12:39PM
@Dave - Oh okay I see, thanks.