Highlights for the launch of Firefox 3

Following the launch of Surf Firefox 3 John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, posted on his blog some relevant data after the first 24 hours of download:

• More than 8.3 million downloads (the official number will be revealed in a few weeks)
• The market share of Firefox 3 has grown to be in the world 4%
• The "Top 10" countries who have downloaded Firefox 3, so far are: USA, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK, France, Iran, Italy, Canada and Poland
• There were 757 parties to celebrate the launch!
• 83 Terabytes were served
• Amounts to approximately 8.5 full copies of the "U.S. Library of Congress' print collection" or 1,000,000 copies of the new Coldplay album
• In the maximum peak discharges were served 17,000 downloads per minute (283 per second)
• Peaks in the occupation of the servers (mirrors) are reached record transfer rates of 20 Gigabits per second

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