Mozillazine is reporting that Mozilla Firefox 1.0 appears to have been downloaded over one million times on the day of its release, based on preliminary data. My emphasis on the word "appears".
This time around there were more unofficial mirror sites. Some mirrors were activated on the fly as the main servers came to an almost dead stop from the rush to download the new Firefox release. Actual totals are slowly filtering in.
I noticed that the SpreadFirefox site was shut down temporarily last night and throughout the early morning hours to reduce bandwidth and server load, you were greeted with a simple text message informing you of this.
Blog posts and information was soon released informing users of alternate download sites. One existing mirror site, and probably the best known, is CNET's Download.com. They are reporting only 33 thousand downloads over the past week, of which may include prior versions such as RC2 and RC1. Not known if this is an updated total yet, it does seem a little low.
Oddly enough two other browsers surpassed the Firefox total last week at Downloads.com, Avant garnered almost 170 thousand and Opera with a little over 100 thousand. Possibly they are getting a little more attention at Downloads.com with all of this Firefox publicity.
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