Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Firefox, 3 | Themes: Networking, Software, The Internet
Chicago (IL) - If everything goes to plan, Mozilla’s record attempt for the most software downloads within 24 hours should be a done deal. Despite server problems and a mostly unreachable download page yesterday, Mozilla indicated that Firefox was downloaded 7.5 to 7.7 million times on its first day.
If you were trying to download Firefox 3 yesterday, it was quite apparent that the organization’s Download Day did not go as smoothly as it might have been planned. Even before the browser was officially released, Mozilla’s Melissa Shapiro said that "[Mozilla’s] servers are currently feeling the burn." It took some time to get the download day website was available again.
About 24 hours after the download files were posted to Mozilla’s FTP servers (1:31 PM EDT), the download counter showed about 7.55 million downloads. However the officially count does not include FTP downloads and the Mozilla website went live substantially later, indicating that the official download count could come in somewhere between 7.5 and 7.7 million downloads. Mozilla said that it would take about one week to review its logs and validate the actual count.
The final number may be low-balling the actual count a bit, since the FTP download address was widely distributed before the HTTP download became available.
The lion’s share of Firefox 3 downloads came from the U.S. which saw about 2.5 million downloads. More than 100,000 downloads came from a dozen countries, including France (273K), Germany (556K), Spain (280K), UK (277K), China (165K) and Iran (265K). At the time of this writing, there only two countries on Mozilla’s map that showed zero downloads: Guinea-Bissau in West Africa and North Korea.
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I don't understand why they didn't use bittorrent as an alternative distribution method. Download numbers should of still been fairly easy to track (as long as too many people didn't use distributed tracking servers) and the load would of been distributed between millions of downloaders.
It took some time to get the download day website was available again.
Horrible engrisch.
Western Sahara also shows zero...w/ global downloads at 8.6 million
First NORTH KOREA!!! thats halarious! that country is sick.
secondly, they did have bittorrent mirrors i used isohunt's twice.
First NORTH KOREA!!! thats halarious! that country is sick.
secondly, they did have bittorrent mirrors i used isohunt's twice.
Svalbard has no downloads.
I was having problems getting to the download area yesterday and waited a couple of hours before trying again. Then I was able to get both windows and linux versions. I'd be curious to what the final number might be. Be cool if it reaches 10 million downloads.
Well right now its at just about 9.3 million, but were at almost 6 hours after the official download day deadline. I just wonder how they're going to track the downloads from all of the different sources. I also wonder how many people downloaded it using bittorrent and if they had any way of tracking those.
"secondly, they did have bittorrent mirrors i used isohunt's twice."
It was available on bittorrent but those downloads did not count toward the record because those torrent downloads where not done by mozilla.