Just about everyone, including the Mozilla developers, were amazed at the success of the Firefox Download Day. Just on the release day, Firefox 3 got over 8 million downloads. Perhaps more impressive, though, is the continued stream of downloads even two weeks after the release.

If you watch the download counter, you will already know that Firefox 3 has, at the time of writing, nearly passed 28 million downloads. This means that the average number of downloads per day over the last two weeks (since Firefox 3 was released) is almost exactly 2 millions downloads per day! Even if you don’t include the first day it still amounts to about 1.5 million downloads per day. That is an impressive number!

In the past few days, I am have been seeing about 1000 downloads per minute, according to the download counter, in the morning and around 500 per minute at night. I look forward to seeing if Firefox can keep it up at this pace. Even if it can’t, it has already done two impressive things, getting a ton of downloads in 24 hours and keeping up a steady stream of downloads over the course of two weeks. Great job Firefox!

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