the future belongs to open source.

It would be interesting to see how many of each version and such... tho I know in the past download stats have been hard-to-get.

Congrats! :-)

These news also made news.com.com.com...

http://news.com.com/Firefox+downloaded+75+million+times/2100-1032_3-5805807.html?part=rss&tag=5805807&subj=news

And your point is???

IF you and MoFo were making a PROFIT, I could understand, but that's not the case. The point is to make a GOOD product that folks want. McD's makes good Hamburgers, MoFo makes a better web browser.

Don't expect pats on the back....if OSS products expect that....they are doomed. Competition in the OSS market is a farce.

Wake up and keep imporving the product without any thanks. The more you expect, the less you will eventually deliver. :(

Asa, is there a chance that you can give download details about localised builds like you did before?

@Concerned: When you develop a product and distribute it for free, what gives you satisfaction? Many users! So I think Asa is right in celebrating 75 million downloads!

Why shouldn't OSS products seek a bigger market share? Competition is great and important.

"keep imporving the product without any thanks"
That's the kind of motivation everyone needs...

Congratulations, Asa and crew!! Even though I'm unable to contribute much (other than as an evangelist) there are a lot of people that appreciate all your hard work.
@concerned: What a useless comment. Didn't your mom ever tell you, if you can't say something positive, don't say anything at all? If they're doing all this work "for free", the least they can expect is thanks from the a few of the users.

...now if only they fixed the large image slowdown's in ff trunk ;)

I think downloads is a pretty ilrelevant statistic because there has been 6 security updates so everyone has had to download firefox 6x. Also people download it and might not use it or they might get it from a cd or from their linux distro.

What we need to measure is usage.

jr,

Umm... NO. The counter does not count it 6x. If the upgrade is downloaded automatically, it's not counted. If the same IP requests download of 1.0.x version multiple times, it's only counted once. The counter is built to combat these kinds of biases.

"McD's" does not make good hamburgers.

yfan: Suppose I manually download 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 from the same IP, a week apart. This is not using the updater, but going to getfirefox.com, right-clicking the link and choosing "Save link as..." Does it count those as one download, or two?

Actually, does anyone know of a page that describes exactly what the download counter does count?

Kelson, its been broken down before- how much is estimated and exact from each mirror and such... I don't know who posted it... google around I suppose.

While this count may not be 100% accurate, I don't see why it can't be considered pretty close. Everyone's talking about how some people could be counted twice. Well what about the people who aren't counted at all? I know a guy who has Firefox on his USB memory card, and installs it on all of his friends' computers so they can try it. At least a few of these users decided to keep using it, and have never actually gone to a Firefox site or mirror to download it. So they're not counted. One would think that this would balance out, at least enough that the 75 million count would be in the ballpark.