Mozilla Firefox 4 is off to a good start with nearly 6 million downloads about 24 hours after the new browser officially launched, according to a Mozilla site that tracks Firefox 4 downloads. The number puts to shame Microsoft’s recent boast that Internet Explorer received 2.35 million downloads within its first day of availability.
Regardless of the initial download numbers, it’s clear the browser wars are becoming more intense as Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer try to one-up the other, and it’s not over yet.
Firefox 4 has a lot of new features such as a simplified interface featuring the new orange Firefox button (Windows only), pinned tabs for easy access to Web apps, tracking protection, and sync for bookmarks, history and passwords. There’s also a new feature called Panorama that helps you organise your open tabs into groups.
But that’s just for the present, Mozilla also has big plans for the future and hopes to release Firefox 5, 6, and 7 before 31 December, according to Mozilla’s roadmap. New features slated for future versions of Firefox include an account manager to let multiple users sign in to Firefox using different profiles, a 64-bit version for Windows and something called ‘Simple Sharing’ that appears to be a feature that lets you easily share content on social networks.
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