Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more: eight million firefox 1.0 downloads

December 02, 2004

eight million firefox 1.0 downloads

Today we hit 8 million Firefox 1.0 downloads. We did that in 23 days!
Comparing with the Preview Release, it took us 54 days to hit the 8 million mark. That's more than twice the pace of downloads.
Wow!! At this rate, we'll hit our goal of ten million downloads sometime in the middle of this month. If the download rate holds steady, there's a chance that we could hit 10 million in the first month of downloads. That would be amazing!

Posted by asa at December 2, 2004 09:27 AM

Comments

I commented before the number was up on Spread!

Posted by: David Naylor on December 2, 2004 09:37 AM

So, that's more than double the 1.0PR rate then?

Posted by: David Naylor on December 2, 2004 09:38 AM

Might be sweet to see a graph of these numbers like the ones you posted for 1.0PR. I'm interested to know how many per day as well as total.

Cheers! ~ Kevin

Posted by: KevinFreitas on December 2, 2004 09:59 AM

Congratulations!
I agree - a graph of some kind would be great, one with the PR figures too would be even better.

Posted by: Hanni on December 2, 2004 10:12 AM

Great news. I surely wish there were 80 million downloads. Someday.

BTW, is there a good place to ask for a new extension? I poked around the site and couldn't find a suitable place.

Posted by: Bill Ruppert on December 2, 2004 12:11 PM

Asa,

I'm not really sure whether the Titan-like outlining of text should be used for every 'image', or in this case, every number you post in your blog... :-)

I like the eight million downloads though!

Posted by: Michaël on December 2, 2004 12:28 PM

Okie everyone, let head to spreadfirefox and download AGAIN ;). break 10millions in 1st month would generate some more publicity from news.com and stuff

eh, j/k :D

Posted by: Mgz on December 2, 2004 01:46 PM

I'm so proud!
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Posted by: DogW on December 2, 2004 02:11 PM

Michaël, why not?

--Asa

Posted by: Asa Dotzler on December 2, 2004 03:36 PM

I don't know, it just doesn't look right or natural to me...

With Titan and with the Thunderbird logo, you had a circle, which made the text follow a nice curve. Also, in the case of the 8,000,000, there is only *one* line of text that is different because of the image, and that makes that the relation between the text flow and the image is not very clear... but I guess this is something people could disagree about.

Posted by: Michaël on December 2, 2004 04:11 PM

Hey, Spread Firefox is the top Google result for "spread" - well done.

Posted by: Greg K Nicholson on December 6, 2004 01:24 PM