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Today Firefox reached an important milestone on its way to provide an alternative for millions of web users: 500 million downloads* served from Mozilla servers since the initial Firefox 1.0 release back on November 9, 2004.
To celebrate this achievement, Mozilla invites to visit FreeRice.com, a web site that donates 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program per each correctly answered question. The goal is to reach 500 million grains of rice today which could feed 25,000 people for one day.
This milestone also reveals an accelerated all-time download rate of about 415,000 per day on average. For recent months the rate is closer to 600,000 downloads per day though.
Here’s a brief timeline of previous Firefox milestones:
Firefox 1.0 is released on November 9, 2004, 1200 days ago.
100 million reached on October 19, 2005, 344 days later.
200 million reached on August 2, 2006, 287 days later.
300 million reached on February 12, 2007, 193 days later
400 million reached on September 7, 2007, 207 days later.
500 million reached today February 22, 2008, 168 days later:
Celebrate now:
* Note: this is the number of downloads through Mozilla servers only. Downloads are not the same as users: a user can install a Firefox download in more than one computer (likely) or download it more than once in the course of several years (even more likely). Firefox users is currently estimated somewhere between 125 and 150 million based on the number of daily update requests.
[...] notÃcia, importantÃssimo marco e notável número: segundo o Mozilla Links, o Firefox atingiu hoje um grande marco: 500 milhões de downloads efetuados desde a versão 1.x, [...]
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Wow, this is great news!
But it would be really helpful if they would provide faster and more reliable downloads like Metalink and BitTorrent because they contain multiple mirrors to download from at once and checksums to ensure file integrity.
In addition, expensive bandwidth will be saved for all the generous mirrors out there to provide the next 500 million downloads more easily.
The Metalink Library has a simple command-line interface to generate Metalink and BitTorrent download files in one step:
metalink.py –create-torrent=http://mozilla.org/announce mozilla.mirrors Firefox*.exe
[...] For a bigger breakdown of the stats, Percy Cabello over at MozillaLinks has the full history over here. [...]
I suppose the name of the new 3 fire fox antivirus checker would be fire bug?
[...] Isto é o numero de downloads registados através dos servidores da Mozilla. Os downloads não se comparam aos utilizadores, que por sua vez cada utilizador pode instalar um download de Firefox em mais de que um computador, ou até fazer o download do mesmo várias vezes num ano. Os utilizadores do Firefox são em média 125 a 150 milhões, baseado no numero diário de pedidos de actualizações feitos pelo browser, mas é sempre bom saber a quanto vai o nosso browser favorito [Fonte] [...]
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[...] now has an increased global usage share of 13.76% (IE has 83.27%, with all versions combined). Mozilla also reported that Firefox has reached 500 million downloads today, February [...]
[...] a post in the New York Times web site about the 500 million Firefox downloads milestone reached yesterday, the author, Miguel Left, shared that about 28% of NYTimes.com visitors [...]
Whoa, awesome for Firefox. I knew it would happen soon enough. Firefox deserves this!
[...] now has an increased global usage share of 13.76% (IE has 83.27%, with all versions combined). Mozilla also reported that Firefox has reached 500 million downloads today, February [...]
500 million… a nice, round figure! ;)