Comments on: Firefox 3.5 gets 5 million downloads, 2.4% market share in day 1

By: jp

jp — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:26:22 +0000

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.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:59:07 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:33:47 +0000

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.

By: Em

Em — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:26:24 +0000

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”.