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Firefox 4 manages 7 million downloads in first 24 hours, still going strong
Mozilla's new browser has maintained more than 4000 downloads per minute for the last 24 hours, peaking at around 9000 per minute in the late afternoon yesterday, when all of Europe and the Americas were awake. There was also a surge over night as Asia woke up, with huge download spikes caused by Japan and India. China, despite having the largest population of Internet surfers, has seen relatively slow uptake, and is currently third in Asia, some way behind India.
The United States registered the largest number of downloads in 24 hours, with about 1.5 million. Germany was second with around 600,000, which, considering Germany's population of 82 million, also represents the most Firefox downloads per capita. The U.K. has seen fairly poor adoption of the browser, registering just 235,000 downloads in the first 24 hours.
In South America, Brazil saw the most downloads, with about 220,000 downloads in the first 24 hours. Argentina and Colombia were next, with around 80,000 and 50,000 downloads respectively.
At the time of writing, Firefox 4's download rate is picking up again as the American west coast awakens, and we wouldn't be surprised to see Firefox reach a total of 15 million downloads by the end of today. If anything, the numbers look even stronger than yesterday, no doubt thanks to word of mouth and continuing coverage by the media.
If you've downloaded Firefox 4, be sure to read our guide on its new features -- and if you're migrating from Chrome or Internet Explorer, check our list of must-have Firefox add-ons.
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Subscribe to commentsjakethatMar 23rd 2011 12:26PM
The UK is a mystery. Why so few downloads????
Sebastian AnthonyMar 23rd 2011 12:30PM
@jakethat We've never exactly been bleeding-edge when it comes to technology, unfortunately :(
Firefox is also very popular in central/west Europe because of anti-Microsoft sentiment that never really made it to the UK.
SilverWaveMar 24th 2011 1:33AM
@Sebastian Anthony
Speak for yourself LOL ;-)
vasa1Mar 23rd 2011 12:46PM
I somehow got the impression that the UK has been quite comfortable with MS. The BBC is a good example of that.
SilverWaveMar 24th 2011 1:34AM
@vasa1
Well they do hire a lot of ex-ms executives...
JasonMar 23rd 2011 1:12PM
Least you could do is actually take your download stats from the 24 hour mark. Your sister site Engadget did this correctly with their remark of a mere 5 million downloads.
Though, at least you're not trying to compare this multi-platform release to a single platform release like your last "downloads" post.
Sebastian AnthonyMar 23rd 2011 1:22PM
@Jason I'm not sure where Engadget got their 5 million statistic from -- it's much nearer 7 million.
This is counting from 06:30 Pacific Time, incidentally.
Sebastian AnthonyMar 25th 2011 8:13AM
@Jason FYI - http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/23/firefox-four-day-one/
JoshMar 23rd 2011 2:27PM
@Sebastian Anthony
Problem is that the download link went live before it officially was released. So there were downloads (thousands of them) before Mozilla's official start time. That is where Engadget is getting their number.
Sebastian AnthonyMar 23rd 2011 2:28PM
@Josh Ah-hah, that makes sense. It's been available for days, though, on semi-public FTP servers. I think it makes sense to start from when the actual 'launch' page went up :)
JoshMar 23rd 2011 2:42PM
@Sebastian Anthony
The problem with that is that Mozilla has, from what I understand, been counting every download, regardless of when it was done.
SlashZakuMar 23rd 2011 5:10PM
Probably an odd thing but I went back to 3.6. Not that I don't like 4, but it just feels slow on this computer compared to 3.6 (512MB of RAM mind you) but here's the even odder thing. I'm typing this comment from Minefield (just updated it to 4.2) and it works fast/fine compared to 4.0. I might redownload 4.0 and try a clean profile to see if that's the problem (I've hardly used Minefield recently since 4.0 was finishing up).
SilverWaveMar 24th 2011 1:38AM
@SlashZaku
Started a clean profile at beta 10... but...
Thanks for reminding me to start afresh again now the full 4.0 is out!
GaryyMar 23rd 2011 6:06PM
There'd probably be even more downloads if the Japanese had more access to power than they do now.
Nevertheless, congratulations Firefox!
KualaBeeMar 23rd 2011 9:17PM
@SlashZaku You aren't mistaken, Firefox 4 is a memory hog of several multitudes than 3.6. I started a new profile and reinstalled my 9 core addons when RC was just released a while back and I noticed it.
I wouldn't use FF 4 with at least 1 gig of ram. If you want to see Firefox's appetite for memory visit the link below or any graphic intensive site. Warning:it will crash your browser from memory overload. Right now, Firefox's about:memory after visiting that site is reading an insane 1,500,000 K.
http://www.mapcrunch.com/gallery
SilverWaveMar 24th 2011 1:41AM
@KualaBee
hmm
Firefox 4.0 354
Chromium 444
that seems a bit low to me... I have 8gb of ram.
SilverWaveMar 24th 2011 1:45AM
@KualaBee
update:
Firefox 4.0 354
Chromium 668 (got to check for the separate tabs as well).
Firefox 4.0 - 30 tabs
Chromium - 3 tabs
icy1007Mar 23rd 2011 11:28PM
Not interested. IE9 is far superior to FF4.
SilverWaveMar 24th 2011 1:46AM
@icy1007
yeah but it gives you cancer of the soul ;-)
XenoMar 24th 2011 1:09AM
Thank You for Firefox 4 Mozilla we ♡ u