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Over Five and a Half Million Downloads for Firefox 3 so far

Firefox 3 Downloads Worldwide on Download Day 2008

The call went out to geeks across the globe, download Firefox 3 to help set a world record. Great job guys!

It’s not over yet and there’s over five and a half million downloads according to the Map stats. Before Firefox 3 was even available, Mozilla’s servers were feeling the burn. There’s a bit of time left, so it’s not too late to download, with Download Day 2008 starting at 10:00 a.m. 17 June 2008 (PDT or San Francisco time in the United States), and finishing at 11:16 a.m. 18 June, 2008 (PDT or San Francisco time in the United States). The current PDT time can be found here if you want to check it.

For those who have yet to see it, I’m a huge fan of the about:robots easter egg in Firefox 3 and the awesome robot art that goes with it. Lifehacker has also released the Power Users Guide to Firefox 3 already, with lots of great tweaks and tricks.

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6 Responses to “Over Five and a Half Million Downloads for Firefox 3 so far”

  1. boonyboy Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    Nice Post Cait. Thanks for the info, just downloaded. Interesting that Iran has more downloads than Australia and China.

    Take care,
    Dave

  2. Herne Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    I notice that Cait has done up a little sig like Dave’s! uberGeeky! When are you gonna draw up a little cartoon face too, Cait?

  3. Dave Gray Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    Amazing numbers :) Cool! Nice post Cait.

  4. brie in DC Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    Great map, Cait! I was able to download to work and laptop this a.m. in the Eastern US! Tried right after it went “live” – but,of course, we crashed their server.

  5. knowledge is everywhere Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    Firefox 3 Robots Welcome the Humans…

    I love the about:robots easter egg in Firefox 3 and have had a few people ask me what it means and who put it there. For those wondering where these bits of electronic fun come from, here’s the deal. Bug #417302 was logged in Bugzilla, originall…

  6. Cait Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    @Herne I can’t draw to save my life and as yet, the internet has not provided me with a stick figure generator ;)

    @Dave the numbers are bigger! Over 6.8 Million and still going up!

    @Brie I got ahead of myself and went to download it before it went live, I thought we were doing it in order of timezone.

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