Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday. The new version of the popular open source web browser has attracted considerable attention and is already seeing rapid adoption. It was downloaded over 5 million times during the first 24 hours. This falls short of the record-setting 8 million downloads that Firefox 3 had during its first day, but it still reflects the intense enthusiasm of the browser's fans.
Firefox's popularity has rapidly climbed over the past few years, bringing it up to between 20-30 percent of the global browser market, according to various Web analytics firms. Based on data collected from 850,000 web sites, tracking firm whos.amung.us says that Firefox 3.5 by itself now accounts for roughly 2.5 percent of the browser market, more than the total marketshare of rival Opera.
When Mozilla released Firefox 3 last year, the company planned an elaborate Download Day event, encouraging supporters to obtain the software on the day of the release. They aimed to set a new Guinness Record for the most user-initiated downloads of a software program in one day. The event was highly successful and resulted in 8 million downloads at launch, with the first million in only four hours.
The community's grass-roots marketing efforts for the Firefox 3.5 launch were not as intensive or widely publicized, but still had a significant impact. Mozilla planned a social network campaign called the Shiretoko Shock, which instructed participants to promote the release on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook at 3:50 PM in their respective timezones. The idea was that the "shockwave" would ripple out from the core community of volunteer Firefox evangelists and spread virally as others retweeted and echoed the initial posts. This campaign and general widespread interest in the release propelled Firefox onto Twitter's trending topics list.
The collective number of total Firefox downloads exceeded 500 million last year and is currently estimated at roughly 950 million. It could exceed one billion by the end of August.
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anybody's firefox 3.5 crashing a lot or getting a message saying due to low memory it stopped some things?
Firefox's popularity has rapidly climbed over the past few years, bringing it up to between 20-30 percent of the global browser market, according to various Web analytics firms. Based on data collected from 850,000 web sites, tracking firm whos.amung.us says that Firefox 3.5 by itself now accounts for roughly 2.5 percent of the browser market, more than the total marketshare of rival Opera.
When Mozilla released Firefox 3 last year, the company planned an elaborate Download Day event, encouraging supporters to obtain the software on the day of the release. They aimed to set a new Guinness Record for the most user-initiated downloads of a software program in one day. The event was highly successful and resulted in 8 million downloads at launch, with the first million in only four hours.
The community's grass-roots marketing efforts for the Firefox 3.5 launch were not as intensive or widely publicized, but still had a significant impact. Mozilla planned a social network campaign called the Shiretoko Shock, which instructed participants to promote the release on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook at 3:50 PM in their respective timezones. The idea was that the "shockwave" would ripple out from the core community of volunteer Firefox evangelists and spread virally as others retweeted and echoed the initial posts. This campaign and general widespread interest in the release propelled Firefox onto Twitter's trending topics list.
The collective number of total Firefox downloads exceeded 500 million last year and is currently estimated at roughly 950 million. It could exceed one billion by the end of August.
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anybody's firefox 3.5 crashing a lot or getting a message saying due to low memory it stopped some things?
