[QUAR][CS-FSLUG] NI: Firefox Breaks Download Record

[Steve McCracken]

Don Parris wrote:
> I forgot to make this an NI - please accept my apologies.
> 
> On 7/29/05, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Firefox has been downloaded 75 million times - 25 million in the
>> last 3 months!
>> 
>> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/07/27/211103/Firefoxbrowserdownloadedrecord75milliontimes.htm
>> 
As much as I like Firefox, this is probably much inflated as this part 
of the article suggests:

"Mozilla is expected to release Firefox version 1.5 in September, with a 
new updating system to handle security fixes and other tweaks. The new 
system will allow users to download a patch when updates become 
available, removing the current requirement to install a completely new 
browser each time."

With any upgrade to Firefox requiring a full new download and two 
upgrades coming out recently (first 1.0.5 and then 1.0.6) I would ask 
how many of those downloads are new "converts" or just upgrades.  I 
guess we will have to wait for version 1.5 to distinguish between them.

sjm