Firefox 3.0.11 was released on 11 June
Firefox 3.0.11 reaches 150 million downloads in 24 hours
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14 Jun 2009, Rosalie Marshall , V3
Mozilla has announced that its new Firefox 3.0.11 browser was downloaded 150 million times during the first 24 hours of becoming available.
The impressive figures followed a statement from Apple recording just 11 million downloads of its new Safari 4 browser in three days.
"I just read that Apple is reporting 11 million Safari 4 downloads in just three days. That's pretty amazing. I'd like to follow up that report with one of my own," said Asa Dotzler, director of community development at Mozilla, in a blog post before boasting of the record number of Firefox downloads.
It is likely that both companies included automatic updates in the download figures. This is when the latest version of a browser is pushed out to users via an update tool.
Firefox 3.0.11 was released on 11 June and is mainly a security and stability update. The update builds on the major Firefox 3 browser launch in June last year, which had eight million unique downloads on the first day, setting a new Guinness World Record.
Among the new features in the Safari 4 browser, which was released on 8 June, are the ability to view history files in the iTunes 'cover flow' style, and improved archiving of browsing history. The update also fixes 51 security flaws.
Headlining the Safari 4.0 release, however, is the new Nitro JavaScript engine. The company said that the new engine significantly improves JavaScript performance and could get even faster when the company releases the 64-bit OS X Snow Leopard update later this year.
Apple said the engine will execute JavaScript nearly eight times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3.
Internet Explorer continues to dominate the global browser market, followed by Firefox and then Safari.
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Do you agree?
Buggy
Found this update a bit buggy in places. Curser freeze, bookmarks failing to save or delete, java crash.
After clean install all working great ? so recommend this update for clean install only
Posted by James, 15 Jun 2009
That explains it
I was wondering why FF kept crashing left and right.. The thing doesnt even run in windows safe mode.. Time to search for the previous version.
Posted by Frustrated, 15 Jun 2009
FF Best ever
Absolutely no problems.Used FF for years ,tried others always gone back to Firefox.Always will
Posted by A l, 16 Jun 2009
no problems here
havnt had a single issue with firefox in years, just some quicktime websites crashing it (and every other browser i try to access them on), ironically quicktime is apple's product >.< none of their programs ever work properly
Posted by ya, 16 Jun 2009
FF run fantastic, Safari got worse
I have a Mac and have had no problems with FF since its first download. Safari 3.2.3 suddenly got worse and despite putting in passwords, does not allow me to get into websites that previously were no problem using safari. Never had those issues with Mozilla. Waiting for thunderbird to have a better e-mail and calender function and include a feature where all the tabs don't crash when one tab does.
Posted by Harrier, 18 Jun 2009
here comes the bloat...
i smell...monitizing going on....corp tie-ins....
basically bloat.
This version is crashing when changing tabs while downloading large pdf.s.
Mozilla are hiding v.2 off their website to push everyone onto v.3
Terrible....time to find v.2 on the web.
Pushing this beta junk on the autoupdate is s disgrace.
Shame on mozilla.
Posted by n, 18 Jun 2009
Amazing
Amazing stats for an amazing browser! Wow!
Posted by John Thomas, 15 Jun 2009
super bowser
super browser
Posted by hameed, 15 Jun 2009
FF Update/Upgrade
I'm on my 5th upgrade of FF without uninstalling and reinstalling, never have had an issue, other than the occasional add-on that isn't compatible. Only crashes I have are when a page is heavily loaded in java script or flash. Hopefully when they release v3.5 with the new java engine, that issue will disappear also
Posted by ProHandyman, 21 Jun 2009