Last night, Firefox crossed the 70,000,000 downloads mark. Wow.
Posted by asa at July 12, 2005 12:56 PMy'know... I think this crazy community marketing idea just might be working... :)
Posted by: ant on July 12, 2005 01:53 PMJust wait in a few months it will be at the 100,000,000 YAY YAY YAY Ohh happy joy day for Firefox. Not to mention it's probably more downloads estamated because people burn disks and share copys, and have multiple computers you know so theres more downloads actaully than that
Posted by: man on July 12, 2005 02:14 PMman... hate to be a party pooper but i think its evened out by the fact that people will be downloading to update there FF.... i mean 1.05 has just been released the counter started at 1.0 so on average lets say each downloader has downloaded FF 3 times...
Posted by: Dominic Liversidge on July 12, 2005 03:10 PMDominic, we're not counting updates that most users get from our update system. If we were, there'd be tens of millions more (we do count those but we don't include them in this total.)
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Posted by: Asa Dotzler on July 12, 2005 03:13 PMi wasnt talking about the update system asa :) i was talking about most people who want to download the update just download a fresh copy because of the original bugs with the update system (i know most of my friends do) i myself prefer the update system in DP2.... and will be very happy when the binary patch system works
Posted by: Dominic Liversidge on July 12, 2005 03:47 PMI NEVER used the update system in 1.0.x cause it isn't reliable. Well, I've tried 2 times (it failed to complete downloading) and gave up.
Posted by: djet on July 13, 2005 01:00 AMSuper spiffy! :-)
man: imagine the parties that will be going on all over the world when it hits 100M downloads... ^_^
djet: Dunno why you've had that problem; I've updated FF (several times now ;) on several computers without that happening... But I think we'll all be happier (as Dominic mentioned) when the binary patch system comes into force.
Posted by: Limulus on July 13, 2005 02:03 AMDominic: as far as I know the counter is not updated when the user-agent which is downloading is Firefox.
Posted by: Andrea on July 13, 2005 06:05 AMAsa-
Any chance you could create a blog about how the stats are useful? I thought of the same thing (well, what about re-downloads because of security updates?), and it sounds like the way you get that info is pretty elaborate.
Also, I haven't heard any new info from any of the big web stat companies regarding FF useage recently. Have any info from WebSideStory or other such companies on market share?
Posted by: Todd on July 13, 2005 01:42 PMI do not understand why are you talking about the amount of downloads! the most important information for the market is the market share of the system. It has to reach 40% or more before being impressed by the amount of downloads.
Are they 70 millions of users in the world? I doubt.
Best regards,