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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: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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  2. 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.

  3. 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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