New Wold Record with Firefox 3.0!

The latest version of Firefox web browser is Firefox 3.0. It was published in last 17th of June for the public. After it was released for free download internet users from 230 countries started to download that into their own computers. After 24 hours from that release a research is launched by the world Guinness record authority to calculate the number of people who have downloaded that browser. The research indicated that the amount was 8 002 530 people!. Considering that amount the Guinness record committee decided the Firefox browser has gain a new world record. The record is the 'Most Download piece of software in the first 24 hours'.

The non-profitable foundation, Mozilla foundation ( situated in California, USA) represents the Firefox web browser. This is a Graphical web browser which is delivered for free of charge.




The view of the office shared by Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla corporation.




The fist version of Firefox web browser 'Firefox 1.0' released on 09th of November 2004. The second version 'Firefox 2.0' released on 24th of October 2006. When they prepared to release the latest version more than 108 millions of people were using Firefox 2.0. With that the Firefox web browser had become the second place among the most popular web browsers. First place was taken by Internet Explorer browser. But with attractive features Firefox become more and more popular among internet users. That can be proven by considering the competition among those web browsers in the last year.

According to the NetApplication research center ( Who calculate the market share of web browser) by the time of July, 2007 the Internet web browser's market share was 79.26%. And that was 14.45% for Firefox. After one year (i.e. July - 2008) the amount of population who use Internet Explorer had been dropped to 73.01% and that had been increased to 19.03% for Firefox.

Giving away for free of charge is not the only reason for gaining such popularity for Firefox. The reason is it contains more attractive features over Internet Explorer. On one side it is more safer. The amount of virus and other attacks is lesser for Firefox. Also it is more faster and customizable. Considering about the speed in new Firefox 3.0, it is more than Internet Explorer as well as 4 times than Firefox 2.0. The new version was created by adding more than 11000 applications for the old version 2 .0.

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