Anyway, as of this morning, Firefox 3 had been downloaded over 6 million times, with more than 2 million downloads coming from the US. Mozilla has set up a nifty little page where you can track downloads by region. And all we can say is Turkmenistan had better step up its game. Seriously, 7 downloads? There have been more downloads from Greenland. We didn't even realize that people lived in Greenland.
Of course population size, poverty levels, and access to computers all come into play, which is why much of Africa is shaded in blue on the map (meaning most countries have had less than 1000 downloads) while more developed nations like the US, Canada, Spain, the UK, France, Germany, China, Russia, and India are colored in orange or red to show that 50,000 or more downloads have come from those locations.
The world record attempt concludes this afternoon at 11:16am Pacific, 2:16pm Eastern. Anyone want to take a stab at what the final number will be? Keep in mind, Mozilla's already secured a world record, since this is a new category for the Guinness Book of World Records.
In other news, you can also download the portable edition of Firefox 3 today. This is a version of the web browser that you can run from a USB stick without installing anything to your system. That means you can run Firefox 3 portable without uninstalling Firefox 2 or any earlier release candidates, which makes the portable application a great way to test the new browser without making a full commitment to it.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
6-18-2008 @ 9:28AM
revolutiondude said...
Notice how Chad only has one download. That's pretty cool, though.
Almost every single country in the world uses firefox....that's pretty interesting. Even countries in Africa that I have never even heard of.
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6-18-2008 @ 9:31AM
cole said...
Everyone except North Korea that is. Maybe that's an export restriction or something.
All 3 people in Montserrat have downloaded Firefox.
6-18-2008 @ 9:40AM
anasqtiesh said...
yeah... this could be a selling point: "Firefox 3 teaches you geography!!" maybe not.
6-18-2008 @ 11:59AM
Lane said...
French Guiana doesn't have any downloads either.
6-18-2008 @ 9:28AM
Jeebus said...
Where can I get the x64 version?
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6-18-2008 @ 9:32AM
Jacob Butler said...
Guinea-Bissau has had 0 downloads!!! (next to Senegal in Africa)
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6-18-2008 @ 9:35AM
Shawn said...
Um, a globe is not a circle...it's a sphere.
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6-18-2008 @ 9:38AM
Brad Linder said...
That'll teach me to blog before I've had any caffeine. Fixed.
6-18-2008 @ 9:35AM
Kim Schulz said...
Notice that ff3 have been downloaded around 14mio times from download.com sofar - not bad :-)
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6-18-2008 @ 10:24AM
Michael K Pate said...
Hey, lay off Turkmenistan, at least they have some. Svalbard and Jan Mayen are showing up with zero downloads.
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6-18-2008 @ 10:24AM
Juan Policho said...
Go Argentina :D!!!!
Its funny how it was a complete bumpy start and now they are managing to pull everything through, 9 hours ago I remember that it was around 2.7M downloads and today I was really surprised, I just woke up and I found this amazing number.
I hope it reaches a number around 7.5M or even more.
I also remember http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-whos-that-opera-says-4-7-million-have-downloaded-ve/
that entry, and all I can say is Firefox completely kicked Opera's ass.
But well its not about the challenge or the downloads, the best thing about this is that Open source is being used by more and more people around the world and that is awesome, even if its a slow start this is definitely a whole new chapter.
Those are my thoughts.
Saludos
Juan
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6-18-2008 @ 12:56PM
Riddar said...
Coincidentally, an infuriatingly absurd bug made me go and download Opera 9.5 just yesterday after giving up on Firefox 3. Firefox 3 would not launch from the start menu quick link when installed into a non-default directory, something simple do to with Firefox 2. After several different tries, uninstalls, reinstalls, and a bit of searching, I gave up, downloaded Opera, and have been fairly impressed with it so far. I have used Firefox 3 too, I gave it a shot and it isn't bad, but it doesn't make sense for me to keep a browser that must be installed to a non-functional partition of my hard drive which I plan on formatting soon.
6-18-2008 @ 1:21PM
Juan Policho said...
Riddar, Something that the installer made in my case is to Duplicate the Quick Launch buttons, I just erased the old ones...
In your case try looking for a duplicate or if you don't have the duplicate, Hit properties on the quick launch and add the route to the .exe manually, that is if you want to use Firefox 3.
6 Minutes Remaining and its already on 7.779.679!!!!
6-18-2008 @ 1:37PM
julian said...
GO firefox
kicking some Opera ass
Opera is ok i just feel that they whine too much
their numbers are not as good. period. Even though they claim that they are counted as IE and all that nonsense
6-18-2008 @ 10:36AM
Bufsabre said...
DAMN YOU TURKMENISTAN
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6-18-2008 @ 10:38AM
james delaney said...
There has been 1 download from the Falklands Islands so far.
@Shawn: love your comment.
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6-18-2008 @ 10:58AM
Todd said...
so.... everyone w/ a computer in Turkmenistan downloaded Firefox.
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6-18-2008 @ 11:56AM
Christina Warren said...
Way to be a global imperialist Brad! (I'm kidding, everyone, I'm kidding!)
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6-18-2008 @ 12:04PM
Doug said...
I find it really interesting that Iran has more downloads than most countries, including Canada and China (separately, not combined).
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6-18-2008 @ 12:13PM
idodialog said...
Gotta put a hand up for Australia - less than 8% the pop of Russia yet about the same number of downloads - easily comparable in the No. of downloads from China yet barely a drop in their ocean of people. And what hapenned to the super techno oriented Koreans - most wired country in Asia (on earth?) 43,000 downloads - what DO they use there?
I've no idea but even compared to parts of Europe where the Fox is popular Australia seems to have the biggest per capita uptake. (oh and did I say what a good browser it is the awesome address bar is, well, awesome!
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