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Firefox 4 already receives more downloads than IE9

Slyvia March 23, 2011 Software & Gaming

Microsoft boasted that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours of release, however this pales in comparison to the figures that Mozilla have said that Firefox 4 has received in the same time period.

Mozilla claim that Firefox 4 was downloaded 4.7 million times in the first day – it now says well over 5 million when we checked this morning, it is still counting as we speak. This may knock Internet Explorer 9 into touch, but it doesn't yet quite match the 8 million that Firefox 3 received when it was released.

To be fair, many of the installs of Firefox 4 will come from people ‘upgrading' the browser, and Mozilla aren't counting them on the Mozilla glow site so it could already be well over 10 million users who have installed the new browser.

Firefox 4 brings a whole new list of features, new security and privacy options, faster loading and JavaScript, support for new standards including WebM Video and WebGL 3D graphics, and 3D acceleration that extends even to Windows XP.

Mozilla claim that over 400 million people are using a version of Firefox and its growing all the time, however all the major browsers are getting hit hard by Chrome, which already accounts for 10 percent of the browsing population.

KitGuru says: Have you upgraded to Firefox 4? Do you like it?

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3 comments

  1. Harry
    March 23, 2011 at 9:20 am

    And for the first time ever I think IE is better than Firefox. go figure 🙂

  2. Dave
    March 23, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    Downloaded it the first day, am also running Chrome and IE9. My order of preference is Firefox, Chrome then IE9. Firefox I use about 80% of the time because it is so convenient and have it as default, Chrome when I use about 18% when I just want a change and IE9 just for Windows updates. I know Chrome is faster but I find Firefox much more “rounded” and comfortable to use.

  3. misayoto
    March 23, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    I upgraded it and like it. I used firefox as my default browser for years but recently changed that for Opera. I will now use firefox only for some specific websites. I really like the features of Firefox.

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