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Mozilla: Firefox reaches 2 million downloads in 24 hours

Neowin · Oct 28, 2006 17:30 EDT · Hot! with 140 comments

Mozilla recently posted that just 24 hours after releasing Firefox 2.0 (reported by Neowin here) to the public on 24th October, 2 million people downloaded it - that is 30 downloads a second. To compare this figure with Microsoft's IE7 release of only half a million downloads in the first 24 hours, it becomes clear there is a active community that follows Mozilla and anticipates new versions.

Looking back on previous Firefox milestone releases:

Firefox 1.0: 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours.
Firefox 1.5: 1.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours
Firefox 2: 2 million (actually slightly more) people using Firefox 2 in the first 24 hours.

"Maybe we should jump straight to Firefox 10 and see if we get 10 million users in the first 24 hours."

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News source: MozillaLine