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Firefox 4 First-Day Downloads Outstrip IE9's, Fall Short of Firefox 3 Record

in Social on March 23, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

According to Mozilla’s official counter page, Firefox 4 has been downloaded more than seven million times. Impressive, but its first-day numbers were still short of the Firefox 3 release in June 2008, which actually earned a Guinness World Record for its eight million downloads in 24 hours.

Mozilla Foundation Announces Your New Default Browser

in News on June 30, 2009 at 11:30 am PT

After four beta versions and nearly as many release candidates, Firefox 3.5 is finally here. This latest version of the browser offers a number of new features. Among them: Private browsing, location aware surfing, support for emerging HTML 5 standards such as plug-in-free video and audio playing, and better JavaScript performance.
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Does Adobe Deserve the Most Downloads Record?

in News on January 30, 2009 at 4:37 am PT

Adobe Systems may have a claim to the world record for most software downloads in a day–if the company wants to push its case. Over the summer, the Mozilla Foundation, which makes the Firefox Web browser, started a campaign to break the Guinness World Record for the most times a piece of software was downloaded in a single day.