Counter is Out.

Posted by kingdonk on Mon, 06/20/2005 - 09:14Syndicated Download Counter

How far out could the counter be?
If you have a college with 1000 computers on all networked, surely the admin would download firefox on the admin pc, then remotely install firefox on all systems, which then would be quicker, and easyer rather than walking all around campus, to each pc, so then they make 1 download, counter goes up by 1 but they run 1000 pc's with firefox?


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downloads != users
Submitted by Paeniteo on Mon, 06/20/2005 - 22:20.

You have to realize that the counter is not in any way related to the actual number of ppl using Firefox - and it is not intended to, either.

It merely counts what its name suggests: Downloads.

Any conclusion about the number of users based on the download counter will necessarily be wrong (you have stated one point, but there actually are several more - in both "directions").

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