In just five hours, the new version of the Firefox Web browser had as many downloads as its predecessor got during its entire first day.Firefox 3 reached 1.6 million downloads by early evening Tuesday to match Firefox 2's first-day downloads.In the opening hours, Firefox's Web site was distributing nearly 9,000 copies of the free software every minute.Downloads continued Wednesday as Firefox supporters sought to set a world record for most software downloads in a 24-hour period. The site was slow or unreachable for about two hours starting about 12:45 p.m. Eastern time, 15 minutes before the scheduled release time, according to AlertSite, an Internet performance monitoring company. Performance improved later in the day.
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