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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."
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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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).