2004 Linux Timeline: December [LWN.net]

2004 Linux Timeline: December

Posted Dec 30, 2004 15:22 UTC (Thu) by TxtEdMacs (guest, #5983)
Parent article: 2004 Linux Timeline: December

Regarding the downloads of FireFox, it would be more accurate to state either 10 million downloads in just over a month's time or was rapidly approaching a 10 million downloads in only one month.

I do not remember the exact figure, but the one month's figure was less than I expected when I saw a similar headline. It was about 9.6 million for either the 8th or 9th of December.

Here is one citation from the 12th of Dec. announcing reaching the 10 million mark: http://news.com.com/Firefox+surpasses+10+million+download...

So far I have not retrieved the number on the one month anniversary date - I believe, however, I read the exact number off the Mozilla site.

However, this one claims the total was reached in 31 days: http://forums.winxpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=12398

That just was not what I actually saw on the 9th of December.

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2004 Linux Timeline: December

Posted Jan 14, 2005 1:48 UTC (Fri) by cloricus (guest, #27235) [Link]

I cannot agree with the assumption that because ten million wasn't downloaded from the official site that the target wasn't reached. Many use a RPM/Deb based distributions and thus rather get their programs from sources provided by the distro developers or others. I alone can account for just over thirty downloads and installs that weren't from the official site yet were installed on separate users computers. (And are still in use.) So given that there were many places and ways to get version one of FireFox I think it is fair to assume that the gap was closed by users not downloading from the official site.