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Firefox 4 blows over total Internet Explorer 9 downloads
Brandon Davenport
On March 16th, the Windows Team boasted about Internet Explorer 9 and how 2.3 million people downloaded it in the first 24 hours. When you think about it it’s pretty awesome, and the IE team should be proud but shortly after, Mozilla launched Firefox 4. Now, we all know that everyone was really excited about Firefox 4, but nobody would have expected it to blow the doors off little ol’ Internet Explorer 9.
“Internet Explorer 9 has now been downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours since its Monday night release. That is over 27 downloads every second, or over 240 downloads every 9 seconds. Wow.” — Windows team blog
One day after the launch of Firefox 4, Mozilla announced that 7.1 Million people had downloaded their browser — making Internet Explorer 9’s 2.35 million look like a joke. In just one day, Firefox 4 passed Internet Explorer 9’s browser share and as of March 23rd Firefox 4 had already grabbed 2% of the entire browser market, while Internet Explorer 9 managed to only snag 0.85%. It is really awesome to see everyone excited about a great browser.
What’s even more amazing is that Firefox now controls 29.96% of the browser market, and Internet Explorer has stooped down to 45.41% thanks to Chrome (17.11%), Safari (5.07%), Opera (1.93%) and Firefox chip-chipping away.
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