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Firefox Tops 100 Million Downloads
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."
I have on my hdd:
- Firefox Setup 1.0.2.exe
- Firefox Setup 1.0.3.exe
- Firefox Setup 1.0.4.exe
- Firefox Setup 1.0.6.exe
- Firefox Setup 1.0.6.exe
- Firefox Setup 1.0.6.exe
- FirefoxSetup-0.9.2-pl-PL.exe
- FirefoxSetup-0.9.2-pl-PL.exe
- FirefoxSetup-0.9.2-pl-PL.exe
- FirefoxSetup-1.0PR-pl-PL.exe
And the count me for 10!
For instance, when mozilla comes out with an upgraded version and my FF browser's auto-update thing downloads the whole new browser version, does that count as one of these downloads? Cause that just means that every time they come out with a new version the download counter gets the who user base added to it.
100 million is impressive, Im just wondering where the numbers are coming from.
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I know I personally have downloaded it a few times, and only use it on 1 machine. Then I've downloaded the betas, and alphas, and well you get it. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Not to take away from the moment, but the implication that 100mil people using it is a bit far fetched.
Not to jab at the spirit of TFA, but how many unique downloads does this equate to? What does 100M downloads really mean? I've downloaded Firefox dozens of times since v1.0 because of system rebuilds or other reasons. I have to imagine that other sys admins and power users out there have downloaded it more times than me for the same reason(s).
While this is great news it doesn't really tell us anything about how many people are using firefox. Every good geek out there downloads just about every new release which means that figure is huge compared to the user base. They might as well have just said "We do a lot of releases". It has basically the same meaning.
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Listen- I like firefox. I'm using it right now. I use it in preference over IE. I lobby for it on my financial web sites.
But the numbers are bogus.
Every patch generates a ton of new downloads.
I download it once and install it on multiple computers. But it patches from each new computer as a new download.
What's important is market share- not some wierd counter of downloads.
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