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Firefox's Download Day a failure?

by Jason Sanders | October 2, 2008 at 08:57 am

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Firefox 3 was released to millions of users and ended up setting a World Record for most downloads in a day. Servers crashed, bloggers blogged, and the Internet Explorer team sent a cake; everyone was happy. However, those millions of downloads appear to be sitting silent on the downloaders' hard drives, as some new stats reveal.

Firefox is nothing short of crawling when it comes down to increasing its audience. While it is indeed eroding Internet Explorer's install base and constantly attracting audience, Mozilla revealed that no less than 75% of all Firefox downloads go dead. Three quarters of all the users that download the open source browser never use it again.

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Yuliya Talmazan

at 09:07 on October 2nd, 2008

Wow. That is amazing, 3/4? But I think this happens with much of the downloaded software these days. I often times realize that I do not need the software I download, so I just let it sit or delete it.

René

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at 09:50 on October 2nd, 2008

I tried to download Firefox 3, then I found out it was not compatible with my Mac OSX 10.3.9, Panther. So that version did indeed go dead on my laptop. Still use Firefox 2. tho.