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Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-foxen dept.

bluephone writes "Firefox hit 49,000,000 downloads last night. Today, as we approach 50,000,000, SpreadFirefox is offering prizes for photographic proof of your most amazing spectacles to celebrate. To quote: 'We have a handful of unique prizes that you won't find anywhere else, and we're asking you to do one simple thing to claim one: impress us. As we drive toward 50 million downloads, do something so cool, so unusual and so spectacular to spread Firefox that we can't help but scurry around the Mozilla Foundation to tell every one.' But you don't have long. The Infocraft Firefox Counter shows just over 800,000 downloads left at the time of this submission!"

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  1. Firefox and the Slashdot set by winkydink · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The subset of people who visit Network Mirror are showing 75% Firefox & 22% IE.

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    1. Re:Firefox and the Slashdot set by winkydink · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Here's the whole list. IIRC, Opera can be configured to say it's either IE or FF, so their numbers are probably a little low.

      75.72% Mozilla
      22.50% Microsoft Internet Explorer
      0.22% Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
      0.13% Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en]
      0.12% Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
      0.10% Opera/8.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
      0.09% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
      0.09% Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.0; U) [en]
      0.07% Googlebot-Image/1.0
      0.04% Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en)
      0.03% Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [nb]
      0.03% Opera/8.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
      0.03% Opera/7.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
      0.03% Schmozilla/v9.14 Platinum
      0.03% Mediapartners-Google/2.1

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  2. Over on... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...RubyForge it's mostly Mozilla/Firefox too:
    gforge=> select browser, count(browser) from activity_log group by browser;
    browser | count
    ---------+--------
    OPERA | 240
    OTHER | 167539
    MOZILLA | 251311
    IE | 73724
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  3. Weird... by EdZ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anyone find it odd that the spreadfirefox image galleries don't display properly in firefox (e.g. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=image/tid/42). Maybe 1600x1200 is just too much for the page? Who knows?

  4. No contest... by killa62 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously... Zonk won because he posted this on slashdot...

  5. Re:Not wanting to be pessimist... by tehshen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, but while there are people like you who download it many times, there are other people who download it once and deploy it many times, or use a package manager to install it. 50 000 000 is a pretty big number, so everything pans out eventually.

    Usage is the best metric of Firefox's success; however, you can't measure it, as different sites have different hit rates, no doubt many have already been mentioned. Downloads is the best count we have because it's actually measurable.

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