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Firefox downloads bumped up by its security patches?

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An interesting quote from ZDNet concerning its 50 million downloads mark:

Firefox late last month marked 50 million downloads of its browser since the Version 1.0 release in November. Downloads do not equal users, because a single user often downloads multiple copies for different computers or to replace the browser with patched versions, of which Firefox has had three.

Interesting. So, the more insecure it is, the more downloads will report! Hmm.... :-)

[update: a note from the comments section - autoupdates (the main way people upgrade) are NOT counted against the download figure.]

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  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2005
    Oops. That should read

    Going by gut instinct the number of downloads is still probably greater than the number of INSTALLS by about a factor of 2. (Not USERS).
  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2005
    In the interests of fairness, it might be interesting to note that I haven't been able to let Firefox self-update on my machines (two Windows XP pro and one Windows Server 2003), so I downloaded newer versions manually every time. That makes 5 downloads. The download/user ratio might be anywhere between 2 and 5.
  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2005
    This was discussed for quite some time on the spreadfirefox.com website when the first patch came out (1.0.1) -- and they even disabled the counter for a while so they could determine the right way to handle this.

    They supposedly do not count auto-updates (and yes, this feature does work on my windows XP and windows 2000 machines)

    The download count is pretty useless -- it's just a marketing gimmick - what prevents someone from downloading 100 copies a day to bump the counter? -- I download every version and store it on my hard drive anyway, and in many cases, I don't download it when I install a new machine, I just run the previously downloaded setup to save time and bandwidth.

    So it all pans out - however you want to read it. It's just as reliable as the download counts on cnet's download.com or tucows...

    Browser stats from reputable websites are more valuable.
  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
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