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ShareThisIt’s been about a day since Firefox 3.5 launch and the results show it was a high success. According to Mozilla’s own Worldwide Real-time Firefox Downloads dashboard, it has been downloaded about 5 million times, with the United Stated accounting for about one fourth of those.
While it may seem a low number compared with Firefox 3′s record setting 8 million downloads on day one, it’s hard to compare because unlike Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5 is also available as an update, so users clicking on Check for Updates… in the Help menu, will get it without counting as a Firefox download. Last year, there was no other way to get Firefox 3 at that time, but downloading it in full.
At the same time, web usage tracking site whos.amung.us, which has been reporting Firefox 3.5 market share since its launch, is currently showing numbers around 2.4%, based on approximately 850,000 sites and 300 million daily page views reported.
I had downloaded Firefox 3.5 by clicking the check for updates in the help menu. I thought it would have counted as a download. Don’t worry I have just downloaded it from the website.
Em, they’re counting pageviews. How should it be done? If they count traffic (as in, bandwidth), that would be a horrible measure. Someone downloading a 2.5GB ISO and going to bed is “using” one browser a whole lot more than the guy who surfs blogs and Facebook and news sites all day? Pageviews is suitable and accurate.
I think these marketing people don’t know what they are talking about. I use multiple browsers, I didn’t trash the ones I already had. They should put the amount of downloads but leave the market share out of it. I hate that. Just lame hype about nothing. I wonder how many people downloaded it more then once. I wonder how many started to download it then stopped to restart. Always market shares,
Question, why do market shares even matter with a free item on a so called non-profit organization?
If you go by what browser viewed what page, still bad, I have a modual installed on my firefox that says it is internet explorer durring the GET/POST to the http server.
I don’t know why the number of people who use a browsers so important?
Wouldn’t it be better to count the traffic… how much of the traffic is done on Firefox and how much it’s on other browsers. That would give us a realistic figure of the term “browser usage”.