Mozilla Firefox Browser Crosses 200 Million Downloads
August 1st, 2006Mozilla Firefox is undoubtedly an amazing feature rich web browser. The Spread Firefox community has actively promoted the browser and Firefox crosses 200 million downloads today.
“We know that this number doesn’t represent actual users because this number includes both Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.5 (soon Firefox 2,) because not every one completes every download, and because not every download results in a new Firefox user. That being said, 200 million people seeking Firefox is a huge accomplishment and we’re right to celebrate our role in driving that number.”
Recently Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5, the latest public version was released with more security fixes. Of course developers, testers and early adopters might like to try out Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1 and get a chance to list your name in Firefox 2.
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Interesting information, this.
I agree that it would be difficult to project the actual number of users based on the total number of downloads.
On the one hand, not every download would get completed and not every completed download would result into an actual installation.
On the other hand, people could also install without downloading, for instance, from CD/DVD etc. Such installations / users would nonetheless add to the actual user base.
One interesting way of estimating the actual userbase would be to analyze the server logs of active websites and extract the percentage of visitors using Firefox (or any other known browser, for that matter).
After reading this post, we made a quick study of the logs of a few sites (which are available to us). The sites are on different topics, catering to different regions of the world, with different visitor demographics and we found the percentage of Firefox users ranging from about 3.5 all the way to 9-ish.
Bsaed on the data that we’ve currently sampled, I’d say about 6 to 7% would be a reasonable estimate. Exterpolating this to about 1 billion Internet users (as currently estimated), it would work out to about 60 to 70 million Firefox users.
Any thoughts, anybody?