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Firefox Breaks 50,000,000 Barrier

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-up-get-on-up dept.

MrDrBob writes "Today at 16:59 GMT (8:58 AM PST) Mozilla Firefox received its 50,000,000th download. To celebrate, SpreadFirefox.com has created a special page, where you can watch the downloads continue to climb in real time. Three cheers for Firefox! May it go on swiftly to 100,000,000!"

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  1. Hey, it says "actual number"--so it has to be! by Black+Perl · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just saw the counter go down. Cool, they're even counting "returns".

    Actually, the javascript only updates once a minute, and when it does, it computes a new rate, so the increments you see are only estimates until the next update.

    --
    bp
  2. Re:Does this include yesterday by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    We're not counting downloads served by the Firefox update system. Neither are we counting the millions of downloads from download.com (they actually host Firefox as well) or from other download repositories. We're also not counting people who go directly to FTP without going through our "bouncer" tool (the app that directs you to the most appropriate mirror). There's lots we're not counting here. It's not meant to be a count of users. It's just a measure of how many people use our system to download Firefox.

    - A

  3. Re:Are all versions of Firefox included? by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I should add a minor correction, that page lists the current version, so if you got 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 from similar links, you'll also be counted. All those links go through our mirror tool that distributes load across our dozens of mirrors. We're not counting downloads that don't go through that tool.

    - A