July 7, 2009
one week of firefox 3.5
Ken Kovash, over at the Mozilla Blog of Metrics, has a nice rundown on week one of Firefox 3.5. I'd just like to second Ken's comment that this is all quite extraordinary.
One thing you'll notice is that Firefox 3.0 had an unprecidented first week and 3.5 is slightly below that in downloads. To understand why, you'll have to look back to our Firefox 3.0 Download Day campaign where the global Mozilla community worked really hard to get everyone available to download on the first day of availability. The campaign was a great success and did a lot to raise the general awareness of Mozilla and Firefox.
With Firefox 3.5, we didn't make that kind of push. We're watching a more "normal" adoption curve. I'm convinced that within another week or two, we'll see the Firefox 3.5 downloads outpace what we saw with 3.0 and that when we look back to the first month's downloads, 3.5 will be solidly in the lead.
Still, it's worth going back to what Ken said, "I think it’s safe to say that not many pieces of software have ever seen more than 10 million consumers make the conscious decision to download within a single seven-day period."
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
Posted by: Albi | July 7, 2009 3:58 PM
Really not surprisingly, in recent months i've more and more visitors with firefox on my site.
Posted by: Internet Junkie | July 7, 2009 10:37 PM
Can you plot a line graph of non-dot-zero release uptake? i.e. Firebird 0.8, Firefox 1.1, Firefox 2.0.0.1/2/3/4/5/6...
with linear time on the x-axis, and downloads on the y-axis
This will give a better indication of the curve of users willing to update when there is not a big marketing push
Posted by: Nicholas Shanks | July 9, 2009 12:45 AM
Not surprisingly, Mozilla is really the best.