Firefox officially sets Guinness download record
News brought to you by Skint Tariffs, providers of cheap broadband deals.Firefox, an internet browser that pioneered tabbed browsing well ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been gathering pace against its giant rival.
The free software became the most downloaded program in a single day when the release of its third complete version was downloaded over eight million times on June 17th.
Following from the success that saw a new Guinness Book of World Records marker set, Firefox, made by Mozilla, now has just under 20 per cent share of the browser market, according to Net Applications figures.
After other browsers are factored in, this still leaves Microsoft with 73 per cent of the market.
Still confident in its dominance and the friendly competition from Mozilla, Microsoft reportedly sent a cake to Mozilla on the day that the organisation set the download record.
Mozilla was put together from the remnants of Netscape, a previous browser which Microsoft comprehensively trounced to become the dominant way of viewing web pages online.

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