Firefox 4 downloaded 5 million times in first day!

[Chuckun]

 

Firefox 4 downloaded 5 million times in first day!

 

Now heading towards 7 million!

 

 

As you're undoubtedly aware, Firefox is a free open-source browser produced by Mozilla.

 

Firefox has been the #1 choice of millions of web users, specifically in the webmaster industry.

 

Firefox 4 was released in the early hours of Tuesday 22nd March 2011. Within 24 hours of its release, it had already accumulated a shocking 5 million downloads!

Now, under 48 hours later, the download count is heading towards 7 million (currently just under 6.8 million)! In comparison with its competitor Internet Explorer 9, which received just 2.3 million downloads in the first day, this is an impressive achievement!

 

Whilst this doesn't sound quite as impressive as the 8 million mark that the release of Firefox 3 met, the release of FF3 was heavily promoted in order to break a world record, whereby many emails were spread by the Firefox team and its loyal users in order to break the record. However FF4 was not promoted to such an extent, as Firefox already hold the world record. So the 5 million figure is still astonishing!

 

So what's so special about Firefox 4?

 

• Full HTML 5 support.
  
• Tabs for apps.
  
• An all new redesign of the user interface.
  
• A new feature that helps users organize tabs for their most visited websites.
  

 

There is now also a feature which lets you disable website tracking, to give you ultimate browsing privacy. (Although there were extensions for similar effects before this addition).

 

Firefox 4 looks very promising with its HTML5 capability.

 

A PC World 'First Look' analysis of the browser revealed the following statement made by PC World:

"Its HTML5 compliance outscores Safari's and Opera's, and only slightly lags Chrome's, and in the SunSpider test, Firefox 4's JägerMonkey JavaScript engine beats everyone else."

 

This impressive speed improvement may cause Google to bring some extra performance enhancements in their next release of their Chrome browser.

 

Source: =F|A=Chuckun @ fearless-assassins.com

[bok]

 

Firefox 4 downloaded 5 million times in first day!

Now heading towards 7 million!

As you're undoubtedly aware, Firefox is a free open-source browser produced by Mozilla.

 

Firefox has been the #1 choice of millions of web users, specifically in the webmaster industry.

 

Firefox 4 was released in the early hours of Tuesday 22nd March 2011. Within 24 hours of its release, it had already accumulated a shocking 5 million downloads!

Now, under 48 hours later, the download count is heading towards 7 million (currently just under 6.8 million)! In comparison with its competitor Internet Explorer 9, which received just 2.3 million downloads in the first day, this is an impressive achievement!

 

Whilst this doesn't sound quite as impressive as the 8 million mark that the release of Firefox 3 met, the release of FF3 was heavily promoted in order to break a world record, whereby many emails were spread by the Firefox team and its loyal users in order to break the record. However FF4 was not promoted to such an extent, as Firefox already hold the world record. So the 5 million figure is still astonishing!

 

So what's so special about Firefox 4?

 

• Full HTML 5 support.
• Tabs for apps.
• An all new redesign of the user interface.
• A new feature that helps users organize tabs for their most visited websites.

 

There is now also a feature which lets you disable website tracking, to give you ultimate browsing privacy. (Although there were extensions for similar effects before this addition).

 

Firefox 4 looks very promising with its HTML5 capability.

 

A PC World 'First Look' analysis of the browser revealed the following statement made by PC World:

"Its HTML5 compliance outscores Safari's and Opera's, and only slightly lags Chrome's, and in the SunSpider test, Firefox 4's JägerMonkey JavaScript engine beats everyone else."

 

This impressive speed improvement may cause Google to bring some extra performance enhancements in their next release of their Chrome browser.

 

I just installed it and tested Firefox 4 .

Looks pretty good. Perhaps even a bit faster than the latest 3.xx. However browsing speed can be pretty subjective. Can't tell much about HTML 5 yet.

And the new user interface, well you get used to it pretty fast. It looks a bit more "tidy".

Plus I had no compatibility issues with my favourite addons (Video downloader, ad blocker,,,etc...) They all work fine with Firefox 4.

 

So try it ;-). I already like the new version

No problems so far.

[Chuckun]

Good stuff (and glad to see someone read & replied to my first news story thanks!) - I intend on downloading it later I was disappointed with v3.x so I stopped using it until the release of 4 - so I better try it out, 'cause I <3 FF!

[Chuckun]

I'm now using firefox 4...

 

Screw Chrome, this is badass! It's lightning fast!

[HannahG]

Firefox > IE.

When we use to use IE we would get so many spyware/adware always! Ever since we got Firefox, nothing. It's just sooo amazing <3

[Chuckun]

As much as I like to big up FF, that can be said about any browser.. Chrome, Opera, FF, etc are all so much more secure than IE - IE is a death trap.. Which is why any decent computer security software forces you to run it in a sandbox lol

[JoeDirt]

Haters gonna hate. Love it how ff plugin container crashes all the time lol. IE for life foo!!!!!!!!!

[Chuckun]

Haters gonna hate. Love it how ff plugin container crashes all the time lol. IE for life foo!!!!!!!!!

 

Might be down to poor plugin coding? Only time I've had that happen is since trying to make an F|A FF plugin! Lmao xD (my JS skills suck, and FF tutorials on making plugins are b/s).