Firefox 3 download record now official
Mozilla has officially made history with a new Guinness world record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period. The final record breaking 8,002,530 downloads for Firefox 3.0 took place in June with parties in over 25 countries. “The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen” said Marketing head Paul Kim. Gareth Deaves of Guinness World Records called it “an extremely impressive accomplishment”. The official figure was confirmed after logs from download servers were audited and checked to ensure duplicate and unfinished downloads were not counted. Marketing manager Mary Colvig said no party is planned to celebrate the record until the actual certificate is presented by Guinness World Records in London next week.
The company said while IE reached a record low last month, it predicted Firefox will break the 20% share bar sometime this month. Mr Kim said “We offer the best browsing experience and this shows people are getting the message and voting with their browser choice.” Meanwhile Mozilla has shipped a high priority update for Firefox 2.0, warning that there are at least five serious vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks. Mr Kim said Mozilla will continue to support Firefox 2.0 until the middle of December. After that users will be expected to switch over to Firefox 3.0 which since its launch over two weeks ago boasts 28 million downloads and counting.
Source: BBC
Comments(65)
Good to see. More non tech people need to be using Firefox 3. If nothing else, it’s much safer.
War Firefox!!!
Agreed, Firefox FTW!
Bet 85% of the downloads are fake from geeks downloading it over and over.
@4
You must have missed that it says right in the text that unfinished and duplicate downloads were not counted.
RS links?
J/k
Wow! That is awesome, in a couple years they will have the majority of the market share.
anyone notice 2 of the plugins that came as default are drm?
@8 – Yeah I noticed, and just as quickly disabled them.
yooooooooooooooooooooooooo firefox is way better then internet i beenin usin firefox fo a long tyme love it
“anyone notice 2 of the plugins that came as default are drm?”
Which ones? The version I got from mozilla’s servers came with NO default addons.
Karl Rove
go to tools, add ons, then the plugin bar and you will see.
I think Mozilla intentionally put the term “DRM” in the plug-in’s names, in the hopes that we would disable them.
Conspiracy theory? I think not…
………… ?
i dont see any drm plugins…what ones are you talking about
Maybe it’s a mined version from some fake server set up by MPAA.
wow thanks for the info.didnt know it was there
> “The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen” said Marketing head Paul Kim.
That’s actually supposed to read “The boredom and stupidity of Firefox fans pressing F5 all day was key to making this happen”.
Decoding of marketing lingo free of charge, no thanks necessary
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I have firefox for Linux and I dont see any DRM shizz.
This new Firefox 3 SUX!!! crashes all the f***ing time. so annyoning.
not worth the install, the most stupid location bar i have ever seen… and to think they call it the “awesome bar”
that means soon (now!?!?) there will be exploits and viruses designed for firefoxs flows…
Yeah FIREFOX!!! It’s safer, multiplatform, has a portable version, has tons of useful plugins, and all around ownz IE. It’s awesome that they have a world record now. Too bad it will attract some unwanted attention from hackers though, like some of you have already mentioned.
PS. Check out the firefox extension (PicLens)… It’s awesome for looking through hundreds of pics and even youtube in a 3d environment…
GO FIREFOX!!
why does philippines not included in 1 of the countries…I downloaded firefox from that country…
@20… awesome bar? wtf are you on about… the adress bar hasn’t changed at all… well with the exception of a bookmark button for easy access = hardley something to complain about.
PS if you’s are having trouble getting ur old plugins to work in FF3 try this on for size hxxp://dotnetwizard.net/?p=757
i have tried with both FF2 and FF3 beta plugins, works most the time without making unstable
thanks for the info.didnt know it was there
Mine crashes when I want to save a picture. Funny
rlslog is getting weak as hell.
Mine Is working perfectly.
FF3 FTW ! 
No crashes or anything.
oh and btw… what’s with the DRM plugins ?
they bad or smth ?
i don’t get it
anyways Very good, very good.
Got a world record and s**t..
Firefox – Good product, because it’s for free ^^
Thx for the Info
best browser so far. stable. fast. free. need I say more?
firefaux is so 2005…maxthon is where it is at now, try it.
the lightests, fastest, securest, most diverse browser available at the moment..not a system hog like firefaux with it’s dumb errors and not a slow swiss cheese like ie7.
@30
LOL Anything based off the IE Core >.> i don’t consider as being safe >.>
Its funny how you require IE for Maxthon to work… Which means basically browsing the web is about the same speed.
There is certain hacks you can do on Firefox which makes ya browsing ALOT Faster than heaps of other browsers.
doing the following will make ya Firefox show pages alot faster!
1. open a new page with the address “about:config”
2. look for the following values and set them to the values shown below:
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 30
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
These settings generally put more stress on the server, but meh, who cares? as long as i can see a page faster!
3. Right click at any of the white areas, and create a new INTEGER value with the name “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” then set the value to 0
This will tell it to paint the information immediately and not wait.
Its great!. Er whats this internet explorer thingy.
Darn it, I hate firefox 3 so much. Anyone know where I can still get firefox 2? I’m having trouble finding it.
thanks #31 that was pretty sweet!
#34 there you go pick a language and re-enter the old world FF!
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Firefox 3 has been downloaded almost 30 million times since it was released…
http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/
Try this one ..
http://www.vitezomanul.com/xtendix.html
@11 Karl Rove
July 3rd, 2008 | 03:42
“anyone notice 2 of the plugins that came as default are drm?”
Which ones? The version I got from mozilla’s servers came with NO default addons.
What are you talking about?? I downloaded this and all I see when I go to the add ons is something called IDM CC and that is listed as an Internet download manager. and the only other one I see is something called Talkback and this is listed as sending crash info to Mozilla. I see NO such critters as the drm add ons that you are saying are there.
@31, you are a firefaux fangirl who makes up stuff about other browsers.
maxthon is not ie based in the way you say it, it is the script with a lot of changes, including security, speed, diversity…70% of maxthon is different to ie. that’s why it is the best.
firefaux uses way too much ram and cpu even on very fast pcs, that is a fact, especially if java is on and running for a longer time…..180MB RAM and 15%CPU…i mean, laughable…same sites open on maxthon 89MB RAM and 1% CPU….now what? and firefaux still has probs with certain sites.
on top of that, maxthon doesnt need any tweaks like your polished turd…but this is normal, when people went to firefauz from ie, there were many ie fangirls goind nuts…now its the firefaux fangirls turn
@44
And how about you? The new maxthon fanboy?? geeeez lameeeee
After a million years with IE finally bothered with Firefox 3. Don’t like everything about it such as the weird download manager thing, but that’s from lack of familiarity. It does open pages quicker it seems though, and doesn’t have the problems that the IE 8 beta has in displaying certain pages. It’s a good browser, don’t know if really justifies the hype though.
ie and opera are more mature
ff sux
Karl Rove wrote:
“go to tools, add ons, then the plugin bar and you will see.”
Those are from Windows Media Player (as far as I can see) and not FF.
works fine as usual, except half of my add-ons are not compatible
Gotta love Firefox 3! I needed to get a little used to some of its features but now I absolutely prefer it over Firefox 2 (and sure as hell over Micro$oft junk!).
Does anyone know how to delete the profile on FF3 I f’ed mine up and the way you use to find it in FF2 now no longer works.
BTW I think the biggest problem that I see is the same problem Im having now which is that if your profile gets screwed up it could create a lot of problems in FF and reinstalling FF or upgrading it doesnt restore or replace your current profile if FF is already installed.
Tada
Even if Firefox reach a record, it still have some kind aof big problem with memory.
Also see : http://youtube.com/results?search_query=firefox3+leak&search_type=&aq=f
Full video link are in description.
Firefox2 was better than forefox3
Opera is better than all
IE64 is better than IE7
Safari (windows) and Seamonkey are….not.
@Josh4721: Those are plugins from MS, not Mozilla. They don’t come with Firefox. Nice try, though.
Karl.
I didn’t download ms I got firefox. not trying crap.
why is mozilla distributin ms plugins
@YeahRight: I give a rats ass
As there are rules or guidelines on the Scene, there are also rules and guidelines on how a webpage should be displayed and the browsers have to implement those rules in their rendering engine. Now, there can be some small differences between browsers but on IE those differences are ALWAYS huge. As a webdeveloper I need to check my websites on 5 or 6 browsers and I spend most of my time fixing problems on IE (both 6 and 7). I also can’t use some cool stuff that would work on any major browser except of course IE.
You can say that every webpage you visit looks fine on IE but you should also know how much time the designer/developer lost fixing the website for IE-users. We are doing those efforts but we don’t get anything in place. The only thing we’re asking is to update your browser software regularly so that we don’t have to keep fixing the same problems over and over again and we can finally start using some cool stuff that isn’t supported on older browser.
If every browser should render a webpage the same way I wouldn’t care what browser you’re on but for the time being I would advice people to use Firefox, Opera or Safari. And that hasn’t to do anything with how pretty the user interface or how secure it is but only their standard compliance.
Look we should all stop argueing about which is best and just be thankful for the internet full stop.
The rules for the scene are bunk and they set them up to feel special, the rules for the web are there to try to make the web pages accessible to everybody…..
Opera kicks the crap out of firefox 3. Opera has ben far ahead of firefox. Opera looks better, feels better, is more stable, reliable, versatile, and all around a better browser. It is also just as secure as firefox and never had the memory leak that firefox tok up until now to finally adress.
If Opera can do:
- integrate with IDM
- integrate with del.icio.us (I must say that all opera widget work poorly with del.icio.us).
Than I move to opera. I my view, FF3 is very unstable. It’s the same as Vista, said to be advance, but always annoying.
@58: I agree with you. I only used the rules of the scene to give a kind of example in the line of the subject of rlslog
yaa man…. opera is betta than ff3 .. itz faster and more safe …but man it cant grab videos frm utube frm idm and sometimes idm doesnt take over downloads ..
otherwise and anywas … opera 9.5 rocks
Josh4721 wrote:
“why is mozilla distributin ms plugins”
They don’t, such a thing would be illegal.
They come with WMP.
lolz, ^^ FF3 is stable on my vista 64 then FF2 ever did o_O . It also doesn’t seem to eat memory up when opening 30+ tabs o_O . Last time I have to stick to Opera cuz of that issue and crashes but now it seem to be more stable
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FF3, Opera, IE
Wassup w/ ppl complaining of about drm plugin o_O, it’s not like u d/l a pr0n movie and it asked for DRM lolz .
FF3 + Session manager = good enough for me
Firefox is for *tards and *boys. It’s slow, clunky, inefficient in web usage, made for clickers and mouse wankers. The only things saving firefox from extinction are mentioned advertising or incantating *boys and fulfilled pluggability. People are cluelessly and helplessly sinking in it’s promises of glory and endorsing it’s emptiness. Get real, use something different and better. Find It by yourself, I won’t advertise my alternative of choice because you all have brains, don’t you ?
thanks jv I didn’t know
IE7 is f***ing s**t.
FireFox is OK.
Opera is good.
Netscape sucks.