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Iran REALLY loves Firefox 3

by Wizard of Blog | June 18, 2008

Mozilla drummed up a whole heckuva lot of attention with its public release of Firefox 3 yesterday.

Most notably, it encouraged new Firefox downloaders around the world to sign up for “Download Day,” as part of its attempt to set a Guinness Record for most software downloaded in 24 hours.

So far (Wednesday, 2 a.m.), Mozilla has racked up a grand total of 4,865,347 downloads worldwide.

But looking at the global statistics, there’s one curious outlier: Iran. The Islamic Republic has so far registered 136,656 downloads, putting it at Number 5 in terms of countries with the most Firefox downloads.

And with more downloads than China, Germany, and England, Iran is making it clear that, yes, it really genuinely loves its Firefox.

So we’re not so different, them and us… us and them. Which means not only has Firefox “changed the way we use the web,” but for me, it’s changed the way we use our hearts. (”Oprah moment” quota met for the week.)

Reader Comments

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1
Written by:
Behzad
Posted on:
June 18, 2008 at 1:20 pm

You guys should know that population of a country doesn’t represent their government necessarily. So this grand discovery is not like you found cave men with electricity in their caves! This is just a small moment of truth without thick layer of prejudice that western media normally put on Iran’s coverage.

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2
Written by:
raad
Posted on:
June 20, 2008 at 9:57 am

in normally Iranian people Loves technology and sciences But their government is really Bad and totalitarian!
if you wait to see free Iran in next near years you can see a friendly lovely sweet Iran who love all the world who love peace who love Israel in specialty known as historical knowledge!

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3
Written by:
sharifi
Posted on:
June 21, 2008 at 12:36 am

i think you are in your imagination and dosen’t think that most of the researcher of the nasa is iranian(persian).
do you know nasa?
do you know many hacker like hacking just site of nasa?
do you know my history and your history?

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4
Written by:
sharifi
Posted on:
June 21, 2008 at 12:38 am

and ahmadinejad,the crazy man
i dont like my goverment

Comment Number:
5
Written by:
amin tabrizi
Posted on:
June 21, 2008 at 6:18 am

iranian people loves firefox .

Comment Number:
6
Written by:
ali
Posted on:
June 21, 2008 at 9:10 am

As an ordinary Iranian I guess people in the west are a little bit though about us. I, however, do hold no opinion against Jews, Christians or any other ethnicity. Remember that we were the only nation that had all those religions live freely under the same kingdom (at the time of kurush)

I love Jews, Americans, Christians and respect them, of course as far as they respect me and talk to me like a human being, not with guns, bombs or justified destruction of our land!

peace for all! love ya all!

Comment Number:
7
Written by:
hamed the persian
Posted on:
July 7, 2008 at 9:59 pm

please never call this country islamic republic of iran say persia because most iranian people dont like this government i believe one year later when ahmadinejad left his job as president you will see the real persia(iran)

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