Firefox Hits Fifty

Friday, Apr. 29 2005 | Author: jeremy

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Fifty million, that is. In just under 6 months, Firefox has been downloaded over 50 million times. That has got to be some new record for open source projects.

To commemorate the event, Mozilla has released a limited edition of Firefox 50 coins.

I wonder, are they counting downloads of the updates as well? How does that skew the overall statistic?

Category: Open Source

7 Responses for "Firefox Hits Fifty"

Matt H.

April 29th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
1

birthday happy
James

April 29th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
2

The 50 mil. is including updates.
Tim G

April 29th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
3

What I wonder is if includes the nightly builds. That would *really* skew things.
Norgus

April 29th, 2005 at 5:26 pm
4

Heh some person in Japan with his nice gigabit line probably downloaded it 20 million times for the heck of it. :P
Justin

April 29th, 2005 at 9:18 pm
5

I read an official-ish response somewhere, either /. or Spread Firefox, that the count does not include the “auto” updates from within Firefox itself. Since only full releases are available on getfirefox (no updates/patches), its hard to tell who already had Fx but decided to download it off the website and not using the update tool.
norgus

April 30th, 2005 at 6:58 am
6

Well for most people the update tool doesnt usually work in providing automatic updates as far as a full next version is concerned.
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