June 16, 2009

Firefox 3.0.11 welcomes 150 million users

Within twenty four hours from being released, the Firefox 3.0.11 browser it was downloaded a massive one hundred and fifty million times.

The significance of this follows the announcement from Apple who reported that after three days from release its new Safari browser was downloaded eleven million times.

These figures have probably been topped up with the automatic updates that both companies issued at the time of release.

Both sets of figures indicate that the gap between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the other browsers available to internet users is closing slightly but not at a rate that would cause Microsoft to be worried in any way, despite attempts by governments to prevent them from including the browser in with the companies operating systems.

Source [Vnunet]