Is this a count of downloads from unique IP addresses? Because I've downloaded releases 1.0.1, 1.0.2, etc...

Oh, and regardless, that's an awesome number. Congratulations, guys. :-)

I believe that is the number of downloads that didn't come from a firefox user agent. That is what asa said he was going to do way back when 1.0.1 was to be released. Don't quote me on this.

I've downloaded Fx about 10 times, but I don't use it as my primary browser.

If anybody's interested, I managed to hack out a quick PHP script that returns just the plain text for the numbers... not particularly useful, but better than nothing. :)

Oh, and congratulations on getting this many... 50M is just a few short hops away! I've been using since .61, and it's just been getting better and better.

Asa can claim 50mil or what the hell, 100mil. These numbers are just marketing gimmicks, unless substantiated.

Of course the numbers are for marketing use. Why else would they be publicly displayed on Spread Firefox?

And, hey, huh? - nobody is claiming that Firefox has 46,000,000 users. It could have more, but more likely less.

@David Naylor
I would put a lot of money on that it's a lot more,
Though one person may download a few copies, that's far outweighed by one person installing it on 1'000 college machines, or the number of times I've installed a copy on other machines whilst fixing computers, nor the numbers of copies given out on CDS, passed from friends to friends and so on.

46'000'000 != 5.8% Of the world Internet Population

"46'000'000 != 5.8% Of the world Internet Population"

That's true. But it could also be that the, say 50 million Firefox users, are the most active of web surfers, hence making up a disproportionately large amount of the page hits out there.

Actually, come to think of it, 46,000,000 could be pretty close to about 6% of the Internet population. 46,000,000/0,06=767,000,000

Isn't that fairly close to the total Internet population?

Hi,
the english Wikipedia is using a graph you made some time ago, showing the download counter in relation to time.
Perhaps you might consider updating it, as soon as the 50.000.000 mark has been hit. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firefox_1.0_Cumulative_Downloads.png

The download numbers of Opera 8 reached 600, 000 in the first 48 hours.
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/21/

By the way, Firefox and Mozilla break through the 10 per cent mark in the browser distribution, while Opera occupies about 1 percent share of the market.
http://www.adtech.de/NewsPresse/news_detail.php?lang_id=en&node=4¤t=190