Mozilla entered into the Guinness records thanks to the six million free downloads that have been made of the last browser. It is not yet completed 24 hours.
The United States is at the moment and with more than one third of the downloads, the country where more users have made the free download of Firefox 3.0, which offers more than 15,000 improvements over its predecessor.
Spain is, with more than 220,000 downloads, the fourth country with more affluence in the “Download Day”, while Germany, with more than 400,000 brand new users of Firefox 3.0 is the second in the list, followed by Japan , with almost 310,000.
And all of this in less than 17 hours, in which the last delivery of the alternative Firefox browser has managed to overcome the expectations of the company, which was at the five million downloads.
Thus, it was not necessary to arrive within 24 hours of gratuity offered by Mozilla, a nonprofit that provides users with free Internet user technologies and open source, with its new release saturated lines to boot the premiere of his new schedule.
To reach the six million, has also worked from a single inhabitant of Chad or seven in Turkmenistan to Iran’s astonishing 180,000 or 100,000 of a country the size of Holland.
Mozilla Corporation far exceeds the number of downloads of Firefox 2 on the day of its launch, which were 1.6 billion, helped by the promotional campaign that has articulated with his “Download Day,” which also promoted social gatherings and celebrations to mark this awaited debut.
Since 2004, Firefox has faced the computer giant Bill Gates, Microsoft, and has been gaining more adherents to reach 175 million users, according to data provided by the company.
So, now owns 18 percent share of Internet users, although still far from the absolute leader, Explorer, which has 74 percent of the market, according to data from Net Applications.
Firefox is currently distributed in over 45 languages and is used in over 230 countries.
The new Firefox 3.0 is, for the technological expert of The Wall Street Journal, Walter S. Mossberg, “the best browser that exists right now, and that includes the most advanced versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari of Macintosh; both in speed, as in functions and security.”
Among the most notable developments of the newborn are the model of a single aesthetic, a new range of functions, address bar and intelligent, security, automatic recognition of the pages known to introduce viruses or spyware.
