Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours

linuxci writes "Firefox 2.0 has had over two million downloads in 24 hours with a peak rate of over 30 downloads a second. This means Firefox is well on track to beat IE7's three million in four days. Of course stats don't equal users but it's interesting to see that the demand for Firefox is currently outstripping IE."

Re:But who needs to download IE?

[dr_strang]

Only four, because it took over 28 hours to install from floppy.

Re:But who needs to download IE?

[Anonymous Coward]

I personally know of two people who bought Win95 because "everyone else" was buying it. Neither of them owned a PC.

So much for the American consumer making educated choices in the marketplace, (an alledged keystone of American Capitalism; the type of Capitalism we want to seed in the developing world.)

Re:A pity.

[MassEnergySpaceTime]

or ie7.com

whats the fuss about

[eneville]

i preferred phoenix anyways

Re:Download both

[baomike]

I use Opera and complained to a site about their IE only policy/design.
They replied with a Word document.

Re:But who needs to download IE?

[teslar]

No, they weren't. Indeed, the take-up of Windows 98 could only be described - generously - as "sluggish".

Can't speak for anyone else, of course, but personally, that was due to my Windows installation at the time being Windows 95c, whose only major difference to 98, as far as I could tell at the time, was that 98 had integrated Internet Explorer into itself. So I wasn't desperate at all to get rid of 95c. In fact, I don't think I ever had a 98 installation... I just went to 2k as soon as that was out. Nowadays of course, it's just Ubuntu... until the doctor says it safe for me to start playing games again ;)

Ban advertising?!

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right, how unsuspecting third worlders are been preyed upon by savagely greedy ad agencies. We can't allow that. I say put a moratorium on all advertising in developing countries. It's the only way to keep those pristine cultures untainted by western immorality.

It's a good thing we know what's best for them!

Re:So what the hell happened to all the fuss?

[BostonVaulter]

what is this "bird flu" you speak of?

Re:The outstripping won't last long

[thrills33ker]

You mean Nazis, not Nazi's.