

In the 24 hours from early Wednesday to early Thursday, users downloaded 8.75 million copies of. Perhaps Mozilla has a self-esteem complex about the fact that Firefox 4 fell below the 8 million mark set by Firefox 3? IE9 had 12.3 million downloads and beats Firefox 4's 10.1 million.

there were roughly 10 million downloads of the IE9 release candidate, so. Using the "new math" where we count RC downloads in addition to the actual 24-hour count. but Mozilla is claiming 10.1 million by throwing in the RC downloads as well. Firefox 4 was downloaded 7.1 million times.

the battle was perhaps much closer than sensational news headlines might suggest. had millions of downloads on its inaugural launch day. Tony Bradley scratches his head at the download stats: such as the user interface, the availability of extensions, security features, and that most underrated quality. When choosing a browser, most people put more emphasis on qualities. Not surprising, as development teams obviously base their results on benchmark tests that they approve of and have control over. It's also hard to imagine that the IE development team isn't already working on making the browser better.īoth Firefox and Chrome had the best result on in-house tests, with Chrome having a great result with V8v6 and Firefox with Kraken. Also expect Chrome's boot time and memory performance to improve. to perform much better on the JSGamebench test. Chrome, however, is absolutely killing it on Google's V8 benchmark. Firefox 4 is the winner this time around. JavaScript rendering, Firefox 4 HTML5 processing, boot time, and memory usage. Though the competition is extremely close in. considered JavaScript and HTML5 performance.
