Firefox glows with 400 million downloads within 3 years

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Siddharth Maheshwari

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A report on spreadfirefox.com and the counter says that Mozilla Firefox has been downloaded 400 million times within 3 years of its introduction.The pace at which it is spreading is very rapid and has been doubled every year.

WIthin 99 days of its starting it got 50 million downloads which grew to 50 millions in 6 months and withing a year there were 100 million downloads.After two years of launching it got 200 million downloads and Today ,Firefox has reached 400 million downloads and demonstrated that not even the world's most powerful companies can keep people from a better, safer, and faster Web experience.The present count rate is 400305249 downloads.

THis is really interesting icon_smile.gif

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lol u guys are mean!

btw how many of those downloads are people downloading multiple times? to the same machine after a format or whatever,. i laughed at that the same way i laughed when Steve Jobs bragged about how many times Itunes was downloaded! yeah Steve brag about a piece of sfotware everyone is now forced to download if they want quicktime! :p

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lol u guys are mean!

btw how many of those downloads are people downloading multiple times? to the same machine after a format or whatever,. i laughed at that the same way i laughed when Steve Jobs bragged about how many times Itunes was downloaded! yeah Steve brag about a piece of sfotware everyone is now forced to download if they want quicktime! :p

Yeah, even Firefox admits that 75% of the people that download Firefox don't stick with it. On the glass full side, however, that's 100 million that do.

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Yeah, even Firefox admits that 75% of the people that download Firefox don't stick with it. On the glass full side, however, that's 100 million that do.

lol on a side note, i was a diehard firefox guy, but after M$ improved ie with the release of 7 it was just another 3rd party app i didnt need to install ;) but my hats off to firefox, its quite an app, albiet it a little bloadted in the memory dept! LOL

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halcyoncmdr

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lol u guys are mean!

btw how many of those downloads are people downloading multiple times? to the same machine after a format or whatever,. i laughed at that the same way i laughed when Steve Jobs bragged about how many times Itunes was downloaded! yeah Steve brag about a piece of sfotware everyone is now forced to download if they want quicktime! :p

Exactly. I have Firefox installed on all of my machines at home, however I do not use it really. It is there as an alternative in case Opera or IE are not working for some reason. Or that occasional time when I look at possibly switching over to it after a major release.

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Ironman273

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lol on a side note, i was a diehard firefox guy, but after M$ improved ie with the release of 7 it was just another 3rd party app i didnt need to install ;) but my hats off to firefox, its quite an app, albiet it a little bloadted in the memory dept! LOL

I'm in the same camp as you. I used FF until IE7 came out which offered pretty much everything I needed. I'm sure someone needs an extension that monitors some guy in Zimbabwe's apartment and lets you turn the blender on but not me :p

BTW, the subtitle to this topic is pretty offensive :crazy:

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This poll, like most, is flawed as hell. I have downloaded FX at least 5 times this month and as we all know, the vast majority of people that download it dont keep it very long. You can look at those numbers all day long and pat each other on the back, but in the end you are just lying to yourselves. I like FX a lot, but ignoring obvious facts about the real numbers doesnt help FX at all...it actually hurts it A LOT.

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This poll, like most, is flawed as hell. I have downloaded FX at least 5 times this month and as we all know, the vast majority of people that download it dont keep it very long. You can look at those numbers all day long and pat each other on the back, but in the end you are just lying to yourselves. I like FX a lot, but ignoring obvious facts about the real numbers doesnt help FX at all...it actually hurts it A LOT.

and with the many that don't keep using it, there are plenty that do, like myself ;)

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I want to know how many of those 400 million is repeated downloads(same person downloading more that once) and how many actually have kept using FX

i was wondering this myself ;)

p.s. i been using firefox since before 1.0 was released and still use it as my primary browser to this day and i wont be switching back to IE anytime soon either.

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solardog

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and with the many that don't keep using it, there are plenty that do, like myself ;)

Not enough tho, in fact hardly any do...the exact opposite of plenty. Listen, I use it also, but 75% of people that download it dont keep it. Thats the problem and for these guys to be all excited about these numbers is not helping either.

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