Great performance..

And it still crashes.

Yeah. Just blogged about it (and the cake that MS sent FX team)

Gmail is mighty fast! zero ajax lag, i’m impressed!

I don’t think “adoption rate” is the appropriate term. I believe that the vast majority of downloaders were existing users like me who had already adopted Firefox and were updating from v2 or v3betas.

Regardless, as tOm says, it was a great performance!

–rj

Btw, anyone interested can get their download day certificate from here

Way to go!!! Whoo-hoo! Watch out IE!

But what the… are doing the other 96% Internet users worldwide?

Nothing crashes! I have Firefox V3 RC1 running non-stop via the iMacros extension. The current setup runs for a week now without problems on 5 Xeon servers (50-80 instances/each).

The only downtime will be when I stop it now to update to the new V3 gold release

To be honest it doesn’t appear do much to make it much of an upgrade. The appearance is identical on a PC but I’m sure it functions a little faster.

@6

Thanks for the link to the certificate. It’s nice to have.

Definitely seems speedier than firefox 2.0.

Hooray for the underdog. Cue Rocky music . . .

It definitely helps that every blog and their mother (including my own site) mentioned this, and pointed readers to the download site.

This is truly an accomplishment however, and I am glad an open source initiative like Mozilla is the one who made it.

I guess nobody noticed the 280,000 downloads from Lithuania because that would put it between Iran and France in the top 10….

We’ve got to give credit where credit is due…

Stephen Colbert and his guest mentioned Firefox 3 on the Colbert Report last night!

I installed, then went back to FF2 - I didn’t like the url bar and wanted the old one back - didn’t like the way the option to change it back was cut or the posts of people asking for it and the replies from the FireFox team. I don’t think another line in about:config is a big deal.

first confirmed security flaw in firefox 3.0
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com.....firefox-30

I thought that Brazil would be in the top ten

4% of the market share doesn’t sound right. If 4% of the market is 8.3 million, then 96% would be 208 million. I know there are more than 208 million users of the web.

Can anyone else make sense out of that statistic?

I’m not touching FF3 until FireBug is supported

John Lilly obviously used this… http://www.readtheanswer.com/index.php?rta=blog

Pathetic show by India, I must say.

According to Download.com Opera 9.5 has been downloaded 7.4 million times since 6/12. That’s just one week meaning that FF is only downloading at 7 or 8 times faster than Opera. That doesn’t seem right.

@Carlton Northern

Remember, 79% of statistics are pulled from someones ass.

Can anyone clarify what that 4% number means? Like Carlton said, there are surely > 200 million internet users. And the number of people who had the FF3 betas before the release can’t be high enough to explain the difference.

And overall FF market share is > 4%, I thought. So what does this 4% mean?

Firefox 3 fvcked up my world. I had to fix at least 7 things on my website because of it. I even had to change the blog word processor to TinyMCE because the old one was totally broken under FF 3

My firebug wouldn’t update and now I’m on a Firebug beta release I downloaded from some shady website.

@Adrian
Firebug is supported, look here
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Works great. Does not crash anymore. Uses a lot less memory. Most addons still work.

I love it. Preaching to the choir: soooooo much faster and much less of a mem hog.

@Chris: guess you had stuff on your site that wasn’t standard compliant! (I keed, I keed)

@Adrian Firebug 1.1.0b1.1 works.. firefox doesn’t add betas to updates.

Hype? If there is substance, it isn’t hype any more. Hype is when people write about startups in puff pieces. Hype is iPod and iPhones.

8 million downloads doesn’t equal to 8 million users. I have multiple pcs on different platforms. I’m sure i’m not the only one.

You cannot compare usage and users directly. Downloads as a proxy for users means number of people. Usage, as measured by folks like net applications means percentage of web traffic.

In a simple scenario, one could imagine a group of 100 users that represented the entire universe of web users and usage. Now imagine that one group, 75 of those 100 users, is made up of people who view 10 web pages a day and a second group, 25 of those 100 users, is made up of people that view 30 web pages a day. In that scenario, the first group would account for 50% of the total web usage and the second group would also be 50% of total web usage.

Users and usage are not the same. You cannot draw very many sound conclusions about one measure with statistics from the other.

Firefox could have 15% of the users and 25% of the usage, if Firefox users are more active than not-Firefox users.

The first 10 million people to download a new version of Firefox could easily be some of the most active Web users in the world and could easily account for a disproportionate share of web usage.

- A

I am a fan of all of Clint Eastwood’s Westerns, but his best non-Western has to be “Firefox”. I am glad that it is being released on Blu-Ray.

” IE doesn’t stand a chance.”

stand a chance for what? its still the chosen browser for 80% of web traffic. Firefox fanboys amaze me.

Love firefox and its users

Three Cheers for Firefox………..they are the king of the browsers !

I’m a Flock user and was thrilled to see a beta for Flock 2.0 (built on top of FF3) released on Monday. It’s running great! A much smaller memory footprint and definitely faster. I know Flock doesn’t have the same kind of market share as Firefox, but I for one didn’t d/l FF3 because I’m choosing to go with its steroid-enhanced progeny instead!

I believe yesterday will be looked at as a historical milestone not only in sheer numbers but marks the rise in communal power. No big ad campaign, no network coverage just fans. The FF3 Download Day was a supreme success and shows just how we can respond to a good idea. We don’t have to rely on Redmond to feed us, we can feed ourselves. 8 Million anything is big- if this was a television show on Fox then the coverage would be huge. Take a moment and revel in the accomplishment then figure out what our next big EVENT will be. How about 8 Million ways to end world hunger? Social Network Power to the People.

@Ram:

Thanks for the heads up on Firebug. I installed FF3 only to uninstall it because some extensions I rely on for daily development were not working - including Firebug. It seemed nice though. Hopefully, the extension devs will get working and I will be able to reinstall soon. Nice to know I can cross Firebug off the list though.

Oh, dear. Where did my add-ons go?

And I was part of these !

Most of the add-ons worked now!

@Michael Sean Wright
How about 8 Million ways to end world hunger? Social Network Power to the People.

Great Idea!…the world needs more people like you…

I love Firefox 3!

Only morons use IE.

And yet, I did not fall for it! Screw hype! Hype , as defined by Apple (usually) has foisted more crap onto the market in our field (technology) than any other marketing device! Let these various and sundry technologies speak for themselves, once they are released! Word of mouth is always a better indicator of quality than hype!

Lithuania, with a total population of 3.3 million, had 322,000 download — pretty much the same as France or the UK (both approx. 60M population);
see http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ .

Does anybody believe this?
I guess there’s a reason why Lithuania does not show up in Mozilla’s list of the top 10 downloading countries that Erick cites above… (Lithuania according to these numbers is ahead of Iran).
The Iran number is also suspicious from a pure bandwidth perspective.

As @djacobs (#25) said “Remember, 79% of statistics are pulled from someones ass”.

17,000 downloads a MINUTE not a SECOND. Read the stats again Erick.

And let’s not forget how many people will have downloaded the browser several times in that period.

I personally downloaded the browser 4 times on one system because twice the connection was reset while download was underway and another two times because the damn thing wouldn’t install after being downloaded. I only got it working yesterday. Grrrrr.

I’m happy to report performance of FF3 is much better than 2.. no more of this memory leak madness. Previously I considered both IE and FF to be fairly inadequate browsers, FF simply being the lesser of two evils, but now it seems FF is relatively OK.

World record for most uninstalls in one day too i guess.

to: Wolke Snow

If there was any cheating it can be easily checked by Mozilla.

In Lithuania there was a banner on the most popular news portal frontpage: “Want to be in Guinness? So press the link!”. Result is in the stats.

By the way - it doesnt look like Eric’s stats came from official source, or it is not the latest?

download.com got like 15 million more downloads i think they should add that do you

FireFox Number one in IRAN .

FF3 is great dont get me wrong…… however, most of my extensions dont work either…… mostly the fun stuff but all the same……. WTF ! ! !…. i downloaded firefox portable for my flash drive and come to find out stumble upon is not supported yet for the portable version…… screw that ! ! ! ! ! back to ff2 for now…..

Yeah, go Poland!

گشتن توی دنیای وب میتونه کار خیلی می تونه جالب تری بااشه وقتی که مرورگر اینترنت شما , فایرفوکس باشه
Firefox is the Best, But Don’t forget my little “Opera “.

گشتن توی دنیای وب میتونه کار خیلی جالبی باشه, می تونه جالب تر بااشه وقتی که مرورگر اینترنت شما , فایرفوکس باشه
Firefox is the Best, But Don’t forget my little “Opera “.

It’s not surprising, most people I knew that are even a little computer literate download Mozilla and why not upgrade when the new version is out? I confess, as frustrating as IE is compared to Firefox, I find Firefox that frustrating compared to Opera. Little things like, when I paste a url into the box I can choose “paste and go” instead of just paste. And I can run any search from the url. But I haven’t DLed the new Firefox yet and I’m hoping it is good enough to push Opera to continue to be even greater.

The Download Day and the Iranian Record

http://www.millionface.com/l/t.....an-record/

Iran Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

I don’t like the new awesomebar(It has made it a lot harder for me to access previously used URLS), and besides a few visual tweaks and a slight increase in performance, it is the same browser up front. I still prefer it to IE, but this is a vista upgrade

i wasnt sure if i was gonna upgrade. but glad i did! very cool. looks snazzy and is supe fast (on my mac). way to go mozilla!

Thanks from the guys in Iran for contributing on download’s day.
This shows that Persian guys - that I’m one of them - love Firefox too much because of their downloads with this poor bandwidth.

iranian love firefox but mozilla prevent us from downloading addons!!
damn to mozilla

Firefox is the best! thanks to iranian guys for their great downloads.

همه این مشکل رو دارن که نمیشه رفت تو سایت addons.mozilla.org ؟

Acid 2 test image fails on resize of firefox window! is it ok?

http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

The max speed of download in iran is 6 kbps . We download it difficultly and We wait for several hours and we succeeded. Iranians got seventh place.
So mozila should add farsi lang in this browser.

Please make a new version of FF in Persian. Tanks a lot
Iranian LOVE FF.

Yes…
With this record there will be FF Farsi edition soon
thnx MOZILLA

Hi iran & iranian.good luck
my country is 5 in the top list.good, but mozilla do ban iran name from download realtime page.why?

it was quite predictable that people in Iran would welcome new firefox properly .

if you search for “فایرفاکس” on google you’ll notice that there are so many blogs and Iranian websites who are following the progress of new firefox .

in addition to this , if you visit mozilla party web page , you’ll get surprised about amount of parties which’s going to held for new release of firefox in iran .

Hi

Iranian users loves **FireFox**, but FireFox hasn’t Persian Language. What ?
We want a Persian FireFox.

How could we verify the effectiveness of such a possibility?

Firefox is the Best, But Don’t forget my little “Opera “.

@RIAA
“stand a chance for what? its still the chosen browser for 80% of web traffic. Firefox fanboys amaze me.”

Wow… really? Tell me, who CHOOSES Internet Explorer? It comes preinstalled with Windows so Mom and Pop just use what’s their. The majority of computer “users” out there, I’d bet are the average non-techy parents out there.

Internet Explorer is NEVER chosen. Ever. It is used only because it is already there and most people don’t realize there is a better alternative. Much like Linux. Yay Linux!

As Persians (Iranians) are in top 10, I suggest Mozilla to add Persian Language to firefox.

Please Add Persian language to firefox

In veiw of the fact that Firefox has many Persian (Iranian) users , please add Persian language to it.

Please add Persian Language to firefox.

Hi Erick
Fx is most popular browser in Iran but Mozilla Foundation (as other persian guys said) dont support Persian language and blocked Iranian IPs on Add-Ons section of Mozilla website.

why??

So… anybody seen the graph?
(I am just guessing that there’s a graph at the top of this, it sure looks like labeling for a graph…)

We love Firefox