<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/edb65304-c25f-412c-a29e-ab9b138b3a9d/B78C9B28-DE2A-448A-A1C4-EE61F4472879/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to The Hype Worked: Firefox 3 Downloaded 8.3 Million Times In First 24 Hours" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/">The Hype Worked: Firefox 3 Downloaded 8.3 Million Times In First 24 Hours</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/"><P>Despite getting off to a slow start yesterday, the official release of the Firefox 3 browser was downloaded 8.3 million times (that’s the unofficial tally as of 11:16 AM PT today). Mozilla beat its goal of 5 million downloads by 3 million and set a <EM>new world record</EM>! All right, there was no previous world record, but it still represents a massive one-day adoption rate. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/"><P>According to Mozilla Foundation <A href="http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/06/18/firefox-3s-first-24-hours/">CEO John Lilly</A>, that gives Firefox 3 a <A href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=31">four percent market share</A> of browsers worldwide straight out of the gate. Mozilla’s servers sent out 83 terabytes of data during that time, and at the peak there were 17,000 downloads per second (with an average of 4,000 per second). That explains why I had to <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/its-firefox-3-world-record-download-day-but-im-still-waiting/">wait so long</A> to download my copy. The browser was downloaded in 200 different countries, with the top ten being </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/firefox-3-downloaded-83-million-times-in-first-24-hours/"><P>U.S. Germany Japan Spain UK France Iran Italy Canada Poland</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B78C9B28-DE2A-448A-A1C4-EE61F4472879/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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