Firefox 3.5 Almost Popular - The UpStream

Firefox 3.5 Almost Popular

posted Wednesday Jul 8, 2009 by Scott Ertz

Firefox 3.5 Almost Popular

Firefox 3.5 went up for download this week, and it was downloaded 5 million times within the first 24 hours. That is a commendable stat, but not as impressive as Firefox 3's launch day which rounded out at 8 million. In fairness, Firefox was going for a world record (that didn't exist) and advertised like CRAZY. This was a pretty quiet launch in comparison, yet nearly as successful.

The new FF has a number of improvements to help with the handing of JavaScript and page render times, among others. The most important part to me is it is much less of a memory hog than previous versions of Firefox.

So, who downloaded Firefox 3.5 on launch day? Did it make anyone switch? Or are you still using Chrome?

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