[pokerhaji]

Firefox 3 downloads clear 8 million mark

Take this statistic with a grain of salt, but Mozilla said more than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in its first 24 hours online.

Mozilla, which is behind the open-source Web browser, was trying to set a download record for the software. The 24-hour period lasted from 11:16 a.m. PDT Tuesday to the same time Wednesday, and Mozilla said it's waiting for the Guinness Book of World Records to review the results.

Mozilla showed more than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in its first 24 hours online.


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[Smith6612]

Did you hear how much bandwidth Mozilla was using up as well? At one point, they had been using 13Gbps of INTERNET BANDWIDTH because of all the downloaders.

[intertec]

Thanks for the info

[theafterthought]

It would be great if x10 offered that kind of bandwidth

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by theafterthought

It would be great if x10 offered that kind of bandwidth

You know how much that'd cost?

[mifuyu]

Wow.. that's a lot of bandwidth. :O But I really like Firefox 3's colors~ <3

[jjpeacha]

Im using it now on my Wndows box, and i've noticed the speed if it already. However I wasn't able to download it from the site during the 24 hour period because the site crashed.

[Smith6612]

Most datacenters only have a 10Gbps line. x10 would have to be paying $20,000+ dollars a month just to even get remotely close to that much handwidth.

[kkenny]

True. That's just plain. Amazing and WOW.

[tnl2k7]

Just goes to show how much support Mozilla has in the browser market and the open source communities. I feel congratulations are in order for these amazing statistics!

-Luke.