Comments on: Firefox Hits 300 million Downloads! When will it hit 1 Trillion?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:36:51 +0000

So it looks like they really picked up the pace.

By: El Guru

El Guru — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:18:39 +0000

Well, your estimate for 1 Billion was only off by 1 1/4 years.

By: 400 Million Downloads!!! « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog

400 Million Downloads!!! « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:07:12 +0000

[...] September 7th, 2007 Mozilla Firefox Back around Valentine’s Day this year, Firefox hit 300 Million Downloads. Today, a little under 7 months later, we celebrate reaching another 100 million downloads! It is [...]

By: The Guru

The Guru — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:48:54 +0000

Not too bad only off by about 2 weeks on the 400 Million mark.

By: Mozilla Firefox Tops 300 Million Downloads

Mozilla Firefox Tops 300 Million Downloads — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:44:38 +0000

[...] actual number of users since the multiple times you upgrade Firefox are also counted. Cybernet has plotted a graph to track the Firefox download milestones and predicts 400 million downloads will occur August 25, [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:38:38 +0000

I mentioned that in the last sentence of the first paragraph, but Firefox seems to be growing at a constant rate so I think this will probably be accurate. Of course, there is always the word-of-mouth growth that is really exponential (you tell 2 friends, and they tell 2 friends, etc…) so the trend might not stay linear.

By: Ramki

Ramki — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:53:34 +0000

You might have to take the factor that updates are allowed now into account to make this calculation more useful. Earlier, for every new release we had to download FF. So, the numbers would have been higher if only the downloads were counted. But, after the update functionality was added, if the numbers keep growing at the same rate, then it means that there are more people downloading FF compared to earlier versions. This might be considered good news overall. (Am assuming that an update doesn’t add to a download.)
And regarding that 1 trillion: I wonder how humans would have evolved and how FF would have been subjected to the history books.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:51:42 +0000

Well, it might not be something that you look forward to. Maybe your grandkids grandkids grandkids…etc. will see it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:22:28 +0000

1 Trillion!!! Sweet…I am looking forward to that one.