LXer: Two Million Firefox 2.0 Downloads in First 24 Hours

LXer · 10-30-2006, 08:33 PM

Published at LXer:

Firefox 2 is reported to have over 2 million downloads in the first 24 hours with demand as high as 30 downloads a second at times. The Firefox team is well on the way to overshadowing the 3 million in 4 days that downloaded IE7. It takes a few days to update the statistics, as they need to get the figures in from the mirror sites, the company said.

Read More...

petersum · 10-30-2006, 09:54 PM

I expect that is a reflection of how buggy the previous version was! Let us hope that this one is better.

ctkroeker · 10-31-2006, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petersum

I expect that is a reflection of how buggy the previous version was! Let us hope that this one is better.

Are you referring to Firefox or IE? I like Firefox 2 a lot more than the privious version (1.0.7).

petersum · 11-01-2006, 09:44 PM

Actually, I was refering to the last "update" of Firefox, but on reflection, IE6 was pretty bad too! I'm just downloading Firefox 2 now.