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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. Net Installations by Vile+Slime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah,

    100 million, billion, jillion, whatever is great. Those numbers can be achieved via the same people downloading multiple releases. But, how many singular installtions are there. Now that would be an interesting statistic.

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  2. Re:Some misc. Browser Percentage Data - GO FF! by dslauson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    W3 Schools' Browser Stats page has it more like this:

    IE: 75.5%
    Firefox: 18.0%
    Mozilla: 2.5%
    Netscape: 0.4%
    Opera: 1.2%

    Worth mentioning, though, is that any site that attracts tech-savvy people is going to have a disproportionaly high percentage for Firefox. This means that
    1. Good browser statistics are hard to come by.
    2. Smart people use firefox.