Wow! After only two days, we're estimating the Firefox PR downloads have topped half a million. We're half way to our goal of 1 million downloads over 10 days. This is, without a doubt, the most popular release to date. I can't wait for 1.0!
A couple of people asked questions in the previous post about platform breakdown and previous rates of download. So far, the platform ratios are a bit differnt than in the past with Mac taking second place with about 10%. Linux is third with about 7%, and Windows takes 83%. I don't have good numbers on how quickly previous releases reached 1 million (maybe mozillazine had a story?) but I seem to remember that the best day of downloads we'd ever had before was something like 200K, so we're definitely doing better than that.
Posted by asa at September 16, 2004 06:13 AMI'm not suprised about the growing Mac segment:
Many people have Jaguar deployed in businesses, and homes. See no real reason to upgrade to 10.3. But Jaguar has become stale. New features are 1.3 only. So what's a cheap alternative?
That's right... Firefox!
Posted by: Robert Accettura on September 16, 2004 07:33 AMMaybe this has something to do with it:
(15.45 GMT)
Posted by: David Naylor on September 16, 2004 07:42 AMFrom Google News:
> Mozilla has released a preview version of its open source FireFox Web browser. FireFox 1.0PR includes some bug fixes and many new features, including Live Bookmarks, a new Find toolbar and better IE compatability.
Someone should teach people how to spell "Firefox".
In case if you don't know, it is not "FireFox"...
Awexome!
Oh, and by the way, "hafl a million" ? lol... C'mon, use the spellchecker. lol.
Posted by: Joey on September 16, 2004 12:15 PMGCount is a great little web counter that works with PHP5 enabled hosts to show breakdown on Browsers/OSes.
http://www.perturb.org/gcount/
Demo Report:
http://www.perturb.org/gcount/gcount.php?show=summary&name=gcount
Posted by: Scott Baker on September 16, 2004 03:01 PMScott, unfortunately your GCount don't recognize Firefox...
I've just tested. "OS" and "Remote" are correct. But "Browser" is Mozilla 1.7.3.
Clearly Mozilla 1.7.3 is the core engine, not the browser...