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Firefox Tops 100 Million Downloads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shop-smart-shop-f-mart dept.

webslash writes "Mozilla's Firefox web browser crossed the 100 million downloads milestone today. Webmasters are adding Firefox download counters on websites to keep track of the downloads in real time. Firefox celebrated 50 million downloads just 6 months back and with the release of Firefox 1.5 Beta 2. Additionally the Firefox 2/3 roadmap also looks promising."

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  1. Re:More sec bugs = more downloads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just so you're aware, the download counter doesn't count downloads initiated via "update"...

  2. Re:usage on the way up too? by dukeblue219 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have an educational site that gets a ton of people who don't know a whole lot about computers and probably just use the default "Internet" that comes with their computer... instead of some "new Internet."

    Nonetheless I have seen Firefox usage rise from 8.3% to 11.8% over the last 6 months. Things are looking good concerning average users switching to Firefox.

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  3. Re:Net Installations by VolciMaster · · Score: 4, Informative
    Updates done from within Firefox don't count against the download count. Additionally, it doesn't track people who may download the installers from mirrors.

    THat being said, I agree that it would be a more helpful stat to know how many unique installed copies there are out there (I've downloaded it multiple times on a couple computers due to reformats).

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  4. Re:What do they mean by download? by richwklein · · Score: 2, Informative

    See this mozillazine article. The counter doesn't include downloads from the software update system.

  5. Re:Free As In Beer - Opera by clarinetkid · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oncomine and HiMAP both use it to display network maps of interacting proteins. Both sites have quite useful tools for bioinformatics researchers. Native SVG in Firefox would be great, as installing Adobe's SVG plugin under *nix was a bit annoying.

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  6. Re:Versions? by YA_Python_dev · · Score: 2, Informative
    I have downloaded 1.0.0 through 1.0.7, does that count as seven downloads?

    If you have used the Firefox update system it counts as one download (the first one), if you have manually downloaded and installed it each time, that count as eight (not seven, obviously) downloads.

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  7. Re:Versions? by Kelson · · Score: 3, Informative

    IIRC they don't count downloads with a Firefox user-agent. I'm not 100% sure of that, but I recall reading that somewhere.

    If that's correct, that means it depends on whether you used Firefox or another browser to download the updated installer.

  8. Re:Some misc. Browser Percentage Data - GO FF! by poningru · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think he means Firefox 1.5 (code name: Deer Park) if not then the Firefox 2.0 (The Ocho) and Firefox 3.0 plans are availble online at: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Home_Page

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  9. Re:Free As In Beer - Opera by Freexe · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Preferences->Adavanced->Content makw sure enable inline frames is enabled if it isn't then gmail can choke.

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