This is amazing! What was the previous record for downloads over a similar period? Surely this is the most, right? What kind of numbers did Mozilla 1.0 have?

Neil, yeah, it's amazing. We've never had a release that even came close. Mozilla one dot oh managed to get a couple million downloads total (over its entire multi-year lifespan). The closest we've done to this was the Preview Release for Firefox that got just over 8 million downloads in the almost two months it was available before Firefox 1.0 shipped. We've basically doubled that result with 16 million in Firefox 1.0's first two months. Amazing.

--Asa

you had posted about 15 million on 3rd, so it makes it 3 days, 1 million downloads!

awesome.

pacifist, actually, we've done 300,000 downloads in each of the last three days. But, yes, it was just three days ago that I was posting on the 15 million mark. I posted that report in the morning and this report in the evening which made up the additional 100,000 downloads.

--Asa

Hi,

just to have a comparison -- what were the download figures of Netscape 7.x in the first weeks after the releases?

More stats - Ace's Hardware [ http://www.aceshardware.com ] has a very interesting chart posted of their Browser share stats going back to 2001. They show the Mozilla share passing IE for the first time in December [ http://www.aceshardware.com/files/news/images/browser_share.gif ]

Maybe a wrong guess, but doesn't this indicate an increase in Firefox use in businesses?
Surely every private person had a chance to download FF1.0 during the X-mas holidays.

I imagine many college students wil be downloading Firefox for their campus computers now that the new semester is starting.

The number might get a big bump today.
Rush Limbaugh just mentioned Firefox to his 20 million listeners.
He said to get it from versiontracker.com does that site link to a mozilla download site or do they have there own dl server?
Yea!!

Sweet 16!

Do we have any information on browser usage on a popular non-geek website?

helvick :

Here's a page out of my very own book "179 Ways to Tell That Website's Stats Are Totally Out of Sync With the Real World" : you know that something is very wrong with the website's stats if you see that back in October 2001 (that'd put it right around Moz 0.9.5 release) the website had circa 20% of Moz users...

I love Ace's. I've been reading them for years, and I truly enjoy their articles. I'm pretty sure they'd never fake their stats, except perhaps on April 1st. But the way things are at the moment, their stats are totally meaningless because they absolutely don't represent anything near general population webbrowser usage!