June 24, 2008
firefox 3, 7 days, 20 million downloads
We're seven days after the launch of Firefox 3 and we've already exceeded 20 million downloads.
This is pretty amazing to me. I really can't even picture 20 million people. I was trying to close my eyes and see a crowd of 20 million and I just couldn't.
I tried first to imagine a really large stadium, new Wembly or the L.A. Coliseum for example, (both ~90K seats.). I can picture that in my mind's eye. But I can't quite make a picture of 200 of those :-)
Next I started thinking about a really big city like Seoul, New York, or Mexico City but even a satellite view that shows the whole thing doesn't give me a building scale, much less a human scale.
It's just too big a number for me to visualize at a human scale and I find that wonderfully amazing.
Trying to picture all of the Firefox users in the world, over 180,000,000 is just insane.
Firefox is literally bigger than I could possibly imagine ;-)
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
Posted by: Paul Kim | June 24, 2008 7:41 PM
Nice comparison, Mr. Kim. Wow. Firefox really got big quite fast.
And now?
Yes! The rest of the world awaits ;-)
Posted by: tylerstyle | June 24, 2008 11:38 PM
Actually, it's 19,999,999. I downloaded it twice. Sorry.
Posted by: Dave Higgins | June 25, 2008 2:30 AM
That's pretty amazing. Good job!
Putting things in perspective:
20 000 735 / 6 704 845 726 = 0.00298302688
=> 0.3% of people have downloaded Firefox 3
Posted by: Man | June 25, 2008 1:53 PM
Or to put it in perspective, just picture every person in Australia downloading Firefox 3 (or close to - our population is around 21 million)...
Posted by: Antony Mawer | June 29, 2008 5:41 AM
I remember when 1.0 came out with 1 million downloads the first day. It was shocking to realize what I thought was a pet project was actually a major piece of software.
Posted by: Ephilei | June 29, 2008 8:24 PM
We've gotten a little faster. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2005/01/2_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_1.html