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Firefox Hits 80,000,000 Downloads

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-bits-and-bytes dept.

asa writes "It's been nine months since the release of Firefox 1.0 and with tens of millions of users we most certainly are taking back the web. Today our Firefox web browser hit the 80,000,000 downloads mark. You can see the live counter over at SpreadFirefox.com."

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  1. Re: Patch System by Tiberius_Fel · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is partly due to the assinine update mechanism. They really need a better way to deliver patches.

    If I recall correctly, they're working on a patch system that only alters the changed parts of the file (i.e. does not require full re-download and re-install). I think it's set for version 1.5 or similar.

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  2. Re:Obvious question by Eric+Coleman · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you download firefox with the firefox browser you are NOT counted. Same goes for the update mechanism in the browser, you're not counted with that.
    This number is simply a metric which happens to be number of downloads. This is not the number of users. No one ever says that, although people seem to misinterpret the download count to mean active users.
    The download number is simply a way to guage the software's popularity. And if I may say so, 80000000 downloads is a good start!

  3. Re:In other news.... by fireman+sam · · Score: 4, Informative

    "because some 10 year old script kiddie was allowed to donate code to it, without some oversight committee."

    Have you ever tried to get code submitted into the Mozilla CVS? Way back when I was working on it (0.8) each piece of code was reviewed by one of the main members, then super reviewed by another. "Super reviews" could not be done by any main developer, there were only a few that could do it.

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