Microsoft is excited to let all their fans know that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.3 million times in the last 24 hours. As Ryan Gavin writes, “That is over 27 downloads every second, or over 240 downloads every 9 seconds.”
That’s impressive, but maybe that’s not such a huge number. It should be noted that Firefox 3 boasted a cool eight million downloads in 24 hours back in 2008, and Firefox 4 is still on its way. Meanwhile, Chrome continues to bleed away IE’s sizable market share. All the same, props to MS. [The Windows Blog]
mbryant
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:07 AMFor comparison, here are the number of downloads for the first 24 hours of every major Firefox release:
Firefox 1.0 – 1 million
Firefox 1.5 – 1.5 million
Firefox 2.0 – 2 million
Firefox 3.0 – 8 million (still holds the Guinness World Record)
Firefox 3.5 – 5 million
Firefox 3.6 – 4.5 million
Sorry Microsoft, but 2.3 million really isn’t that impressive.
Sicarius123
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:17 AMSo far IE9 with simpleadblock is beating the pants off my chrome with adblockpro in speed.
Having a netbook, even a D525 netbook, means ads like those awful NextG Telstra animated ads on Gizmodo absolutely kill my web browsing.
Had a few crashes with the IE9 beta, but none so far on final release.
Microsoft may of won me back.
Carl Bowers
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 1:01 PMI’ve been using IE9 after recently being on chrome and like it. It’s a lot like chrome now.
I usually just use the latest version of Firefox/chrome/IE thats been released though.
Try it to test it and just keep on at it till it’s time to try the next latest browser.
Travis New
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 2:49 PMConsidering the BLIND hate people have for MSFT that is quite impressive.
I enjoy IE9 and use it exclusivly.
olearymo
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 2:53 PMat least you weren’t douchey about it like engadget was.
They’re acting like it’s illegal for a dev team to celebrate success.
M4192
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 6:24 PMI was probably several of those downloads. The installer would always freeze so I kept downloading it again, thinking something was wrong with it. It turned out I needed to run it as admin, which it never asked for or suggested in the errors.
Despite that, it appears to be an alright browser. I love the new UI, apart from the wasted space of the empty title bar.
Simon Reidy
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 7:48 PMIE9 after IE8 feels just like Windows 7 felt after upgrading from Vista. MS have really listened to feedback and built an awesome product. It’s lightening fast and stable that’s for sure.
Having said that I’m too engrained into the Google ecosystem to give up Chrome. I’m pretty sure there aren’t equivalents for most of my extensions either.