Thursday, March 24, 2011

Firefox 4 exceeds five million downloads on the first day

In less than 24 hours has exceeded five million downloads and already has over nine million installations of the new browser version, Firefox 4. When they released the third edition of the number of program impact, the first day he entered the Guinness Book by getting 8,002,530 people to put the program on your computer.

Last Tuesday, Microsoft released Explorer 9 reached 2.35 million downloads in its first day. According to the Mozilla Foundation is forecast to more than newborn to his brother, not so much by the initial impact, but if you take into account that not only is compatible with Linux, Mac and Windows, but also has a version for phones Android, the mobile platform for further growth.


Firefox not only are making efforts to follow and disseminate the new social networking program, but also has several pages to keep track of the distribution. So you can see a world map which enciente where you are running a download. For now, the highest number of enthusiasts across Europe, with over three million.

North America more than two million. Asia, more than one and a half. South America more than half a million. Within Europe the most successful country harvest Mozilla Foundation's program is Germany. After Russia, France, Spain and the UK. In Spain lead the downloads, in descending order, Madrid, Catalonia, Andalucia, Valencia and Galicia.

This international success is not surprising if one considers that from day one is available in 80 languages. Improvements to this program is a remarkable speed in managing tabs and navigation, better use of the screen, can navigate without a trace during the session as well as synchronization of the most visited or the last that was made between several desktop.

Includes synchronization with Android phones. Firefox 4 is particularly popular among developers because it is compatible with HTML 5, the future standard web page creation.

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