two million active daily users
Firefox 3 pre-releases are over 2 million active daily users. Schrep's got a great chart and blog post here showing the usage growth since Firefox 3 Alpha 2.
2M active daily users is for pre-release software is pretty amazing. For a browser, something that's really quite fundamental to computing today, it's beyond amazing. Firefox 3 pre-releases has by now certainly eclipsed Opera 9.x to take over the forth fifth most used browser spot, behind IE 7, IE 6, Firefox 2, and Safari 3.x.
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You list four other browsers above it, so I believe that's fifth spot. :)
I guess you originally meant to group IE6 and 7 together, but then I don't see why segregate Fx 2 and 3.
Posted by: Daniel Luz | June 9, 2008 8:55 PM
Daniel, thanks. I can't count. Fixed.
- A
Posted by: Asa Dotzler | June 9, 2008 9:30 PM
Hi Asa,
I would be interesting to see what the OS breakdown is. I know Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 both ship with pre releases so everyone running that actively would be part of that list, would be interesting to see what effect that has on the FF3 figures.
Posted by: Peter Robinson | June 10, 2008 12:03 AM
Ubuntu recently updated their Fx3 to what looks like RC2.
Asa your inability to count has ensured that everyone overlooks your inability to spell fourth :)
Posted by: Chris Neale | June 10, 2008 1:42 AM
Peter, while we've got decent Linux penetration with Firefox 3 pre releases (about 20% of linux installs have moved to Firefox 3 from Firefox 2.x) the total number of Linux users is so small that it doesn't have a major impact.
Also, when we're looking at our 2 million active daily users, it's mostly not counting Linux at all. The various distros disable Mozilla's update and serve their own so they're just not counted in that 2 million.
When we look at market share and take linux out of the equation and just look at Mac and Windows, we're still sitting right at 1% of the global web with Firefox 3 pre-releases, putting Firefox 3 well ahead of the Opera desktop browser. Heck, even if we pull Mac out, we're still ahead of Opera 9.x Desktop in the rankings.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler | June 10, 2008 1:43 PM
Chris Neale, it's RC1, not RC2 that they just pushed out. (yeah, I know, kinda late.)
Posted by: Asa Dotzler | June 10, 2008 1:50 PM
At least it's an RC build of some sort, and not the beta any more ...
Posted by: Chris Neale | June 11, 2008 3:17 AM