This morning, the Firefox 1.0 download counter hit 7,500,000. We've done in 3 weeks with 1.0 what it took us 50 days to accomplish with the Preview Release. Amazing! Keep spreading the word.
Posted by asa at November 30, 2004 10:04 AMWell done! Shame spreadfirefox is down and can't spread that news.
I wonder how long it'll take for the new Netscape Browser ( http://www.betanews.com/article/Outsourced_Netscape_Merges_Firefox_IE/1101831853 ) to get that many downloads, and for how long it will stay on users' desktops? Asa, the Mozilla Foundation really should talk to Netscape about their Credits screen. A few notable names missing, methinks.
And the user agent string of the "Netscape Browser" is not right IMO. It should identify itselfs as "Netscape", "Netscape Browser", whatever, instead of Firefox...
Posted by: minghong on November 30, 2004 11:08 AMHey Asa,
Any word on when the NY Times ad will be out?
A couple of minor points about the Spread Firefox site:
1. It has a DOCTYPE of XHTML 1.0 Strict, but doesn't validate correctly :-(
2. The image used for the counter has no corresponding alt tag with the number in it. A shame really, cos parsing that number and displaying it on the status bar would be a cute Firefox extension project...
Posted by: Richard Lloyd on December 1, 2004 05:14 AMBack about a month ago you posted graphics on the SpreadFF site showing the daily download rate and total downloads for the PR release. Would it be possible for you to get the same graphs going for the 1.0 release so we could have some number-candy to feast upon?
If I may be so bold, I'd suggest 2 graphics (since the Y axis for a linear growth graph outpaces the rate graph so quickly), one comparing the daily download rate for the PR and 1.0 releases and the other comparing the total downloads for both releases, making the X axis "Days after release" on both graphs. My back-of-envelope calculations with the few numbers I grabed looks like the 1.0 release has pretty steady (linear) growth now, just like the PR release had after the first week or two.
Host them at SpreadFF again (like the last ones) and save your bandwidth. ;-)
It will be especially cool to see the 1.0 release blow past the PR release in total downloads, proving that Firefox has a strong new-adoption rate and is not just replacing PR installations.
- GK
PS: Looks like Napa was lovely!
Posted by: Kommet on December 1, 2004 10:36 AM