75,000,000

Posted by Asbjoern Sloth ... on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 12:01Personal | Spreading Firefox

Congratulations, today we have reached 75,000,000 downloads. The download was made 13:17:10 CEST.

Here are some facts to help you with a understanding of this huge number:

  • 25% of the US population
  • Over 2 times the population of Canada
  • 50% of the Russian population
  • 16% of the population in the European Union
  • 60% of the Japanese population
  • 6% of the Chinese population

Thats 25,000,000 more downloads in less than 3 months, after the 50 million downloads milestone in April. The 100 million downloads milestone isn't that far away


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a lot of downloads
Submitted by paulbooker on Wed, 07/27/2005 - 17:53.

75 million thats a lot of downloads

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Or...
Submitted by reticent on Wed, 07/27/2005 - 12:48.

1900% of the New Zealand population. Respect!

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Small mistake
Submitted by spuby on Wed, 07/27/2005 - 09:04.

75 mil it's huge and by October we will be celebrating the 100 million downloads.
A small typo, I think is "Japanese Population" not Japanise.

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downloads != users
Submitted by Paeniteo on Wed, 07/27/2005 - 05:31.

We must be very careful not to confuse downloads with Firefox users.

While the first may be measured exactly (the way we do it), the latter is hard to impossible to measure and one must note in particular that the correlation between downloads and users is very unprecise at best.
I won't go into that again, it may be off in both directions.

On other sites I hear the counter being criticized as "innaccurate" and "meaningless", and that's partly because of us failing to transport the correct meaning of the counter.
Even getfirefox.com does so by stating "Join more than 75 million others..." which is not totally incorrect but gives the wrong impression.

75 million does not mean that 75 million individual people downloaded Firefox, but rather that the product was downloaded 75 million times.
This is a small but important difference.

So, we should not compare the number with populations or the like but rather with the amount of BMWs produced, Hamburgers sold in the same timeframe, Opera-downloads and things like these.

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...1.25 times the UK's popula
Submitted by GregKNicholson on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 21:56.

...1.25 times the UK's population...

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72m + 3m = 75m
Submitted by asteko on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 19:30.

75 million... 3 million more than Turkey's population!

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wow!!!!! congrats from an ita
Submitted by dandyna on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 18:19.

wow!!!!! congrats from an italian FF lover!

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7.5 time the population of Be
Submitted by jpb on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 17:59.

7.5 time the population of Belgium

Jean Pierre Bardiau

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Congrats, SFX
Submitted by Keough Rhino on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 14:59.

All of the hard work put in by each of the members here have contributed greatly to reaching this milestone. We all have a lot to be proud of by helping Firefox reach 75 million downloads. This is truly a great feat. Congrats to the Mozilla staff, the members of the SFX community, and all others involved in promoting a better browser.

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your forecast was very close to the target
Submitted by hybridruide on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 12:46.

http://www.hybridruide.org/firefox/firefox%20history.png
the timestamp shows GMT+01:00 that is PT 04:17:10 firefox time.
- peter

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The link
Submitted by Asbjoern Sloth ... on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 13:14.

The right link

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Submitted by Asbjoern Sloth ... on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 12:53.

I have just my time, because I just had the download count from before and after. My prediction was some hours too early.

2005-07-26 13:15:00      74999693

2005-07-26 13:20:00      75000694

Remember the href in your link or insert it as an image.

<a href="http://www.hybridruide.org/firefox/firefox%20history.png">screenshot</a>

<img src="http://www.hybridruide.org/firefox/firefox%20history.png">

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thanks for your advice. i was
Submitted by hybridruide on Wed, 07/27/2005 - 03:56.

thanks for your advice. i was so excited watching the counter that i made this little mistake.

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