Firefox 3 Black HolesFirefox 3 created a world record with over eight million downloads in a day and there have been over 619 million downloads of the much loved web browser! But beyond the bottom of the download heap are six countries/territories that (according to the stats displayed by Mozilla on Firefox 3’s Download Day page) that haven’t recorded a single instance of a Firefox 3 download (as of July 2, 2008).

The six Firefox 3 black holes are: French Guiana, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Timor-Leste, Western Sahara, and of course, North Korea.

Besides the six there are 17 countries/territories with double digit downloads and 41 more countries with less than a thousand downloads.

I’ve compiled this table (ordered according to the number of downloads) for further illustration.

Firefox 3 Downloads (as of July 2, 2008)
In order of number of downloads

Rank Downloads Country/Territory
1 7,734,930 United States
2 2,466,910 Germany
3 1,342,608 Japan
4 1,198,993 United Kingdom
5 979,362 France
6 824,561 Spain
7 799,448 Poland
8 790,624 Canada
9 763,062 Italy
10 721,524 China
11 598,116 Brazil
12 535,796 Iran
13 495,484 Turkey
14 489,596 India
15 453,278 Australia
16 442,930 Netherlands
17 424,374 Lithuania
18 353,314 Russia
19 329,930 Romania
20 328,664 Mexico
21 279,059 Switzerland
22 252,535 Taiwan
23 247,588 Sweden
24 241,059 Argentina
25 225,824 Hungary
26 221,145 Austria
27 207,103 Chile
28 205,956 Vietnam
29 195,053 Philippines
30 193,209 Belgium
31 184,153 Czech Republic
32 173,805 Finland
33 170,122 Norway
34 168,981 Hong Kong
35 165,764 Bulgaria
36 163,433 Malaysia
37 161,836 Thailand
38 148,090 Greece
39 148,006 South Korea
40 143,283 Indonesia
41 140,331 Denmark
42 139,003 Israel
43 131,479 Portugal
44 129,957 Singapore
45 129,458 Colombia
46 98,740 Ukraine
47 98,445 Venezuela
48 98,186 Ireland
49 79,008 Slovakia
50 78,441 New Zealand
51 72,589 Peru
52 70,343 Slovenia
53 69,286 South Africa
54 62,216 Egypt
55 58,511 Croatia
56 49,922 Saudi Arabia
57 49,658 Serbia
58 44,371 United Arab Emirates
59 43,974 Estonia
60 43,195 Latvia
61 36,114 Morocco
62 35,893 Pakistan
63 32,256 Costa Rica
64 28,822 Puerto Rico
65 26,630 Dominican Republic
66 24,867 Algeria
67 20,247 Ecuador
68 19,339 Bangladesh
69 18,884 Nigeria
70 17,764 Luxembourg
71 17,093 Guatemala
72 15,946 Tunisia
73 15,222 Iceland
74 14,953 Kuwait
75 14,893 Belarus
76 14,500 Sri Lanka
77 13,905 Bosnia and Herzegovina
78 12,442 Qatar
79 12,225 Panama
80 11,188 Republic of Macedonia
81 10,804 Kazakhstan
82 10,446 Moldova
83 10,335 Jamaica
84 10,085 Bolivia
85 9,958 Trinidad and Tobago
86 9,902 Cyprus
87 9,310 El Salvador
88 9,285 Paraguay
89 9,227 Jordan
90 9,046 Uruguay
91 8,646 Kenya
92 7,672 Ghana
93 7,002 Malta
94 6,472 Mongolia
95 6,034 Nicaragua
96 5,921 Bahrain
97 5,853 Nepal
98 5,704 Lebanon
99 5,425 Cuba
100 5,256 Mauritius
101 5,091 Honduras
102 4,870 Senegal
103 4,452 Georgia
104 4,349 Barbados
105 4,174 Côte d’Ivoire
106 4,089 Palestinian Territories
107 4,073 Myanmar
108 3,915 Maldives
109 3,792 Oman
110 3,766 Brunei Darussalam
111 3,745 Syrian Arab Republic
112 3,527 Azerbaijan
113 3,037 Sudan
114 2,869 Albania
115 2,779 Cameroon
116 2,730 Libya
117 2,557 Bahamas
118 2,254 Armenia
119 2,227 Uzbekistan
120 2,051 Cambodia
121 1,881 New Caledonia
122 1,754 Iraq
123 1,598 Uganda
124 1,591 Tanzania
125 1,580 Faeroe Islands
126 1,480 Aruba
127 1,468 Yemen
128 1,433 Antigua and Barbuda
129 1,339 Angola
130 1,318 Bermuda
131 1,317 Madagascar
132 1,309 Fiji
133 1,303 Mozambique
134 1,296 Namibia
135 1,289 Andorra
136 1,264 Montenegro
137 1,237 Ethiopia
138 1,134 Belize
139 1,093 Saint Lucia
140 1,085 Liechtenstein
141 1,045 Zimbabwe
142 958 Botswana
143 935 Guyana
144 921 Zambia
145 844 Lao People’s Democratic Republic
146 832 Afghanistan
147 785 Grenada
148 757 Reunion
149 732 Kyrgyzstan
150 714 Rwanda
151 696 Haiti
152 679 Suriname
153 677 Benin
154 647 Aland Islands
155 604 Burkina Faso
156 528 Malawi
157 514 Saint Kitts and Nevis
158 513 Gabon
159 513 Mali
160 511 Dominica
161 482 Greenland
162 389 Guinea
163 370 Togo
164 307 The Democratic Republic
of the Congo
165 288 Mauritania
166 265 Gambia, The
167 255 Papua New Guinea
168 248 Tajikistan
169 224 Bhutan
170 220 Djibouti
171 201 Virgin Islands, British
172 196 Cape Verde
173 187 Guadeloupe
174 180 Turks and Caicos Islands
175 170 Anguilla
176 155 Swaziland
177 145 Vanuatu
178 138 Niger
179 136 Burundi
180 125 Lesotho
181 111 Tonga
182 106 Equatorial Guinea
183 79 Sierra Leone
184 66 Martinique
185 60 Somalia
186 59 Solomon Islands
187 56 Republic of Congo
188 53 Liberia
189 53 Samoa
190 50 Eritrea
191 41 Turkmenistan
192 34 Chad
193 24 Palau
194 23 Falkland Islands
195 19 Guinea-bissau
196 18 Central African Republic
197 15 Montserrat
198 13 Sao Tome and Principe
199 12 Comoros
200 0 French Guiana
201 0 North Korea
202 0 South Georgia and
the South Sandwich Islands
203 0 Svalbard and Jan Mayen
204 0 Timor-leste
205 0 Western Sahara

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