Comments on: Firefox: Millions and millions of downloads...sitting on the shelf

Why go through the bother of sucking up your bandwidth with a download and then not clicking on the icon to install it?

[The_Decider]

Why aren't people asking how Mozilla could know if a copy is downloaded and not installed and used?

Is there some MS-style shenanigans going on?

[kmrinsparks]

Ok, first off...Firefox is my default browser...I have IE and Google Chrome and a few others...I'm pretty sure I have Safari...although I may have removed that one.

I hardly consider myself a computer savvy individual...I just now experimenting with using Delicious as a bookmarking tool.

It doesn't cost anything to download and try out any number of add-ons. I must have a whole stack of these freebies that I don't use...but there are several that I use all the time...Yoono, All-in-One Sidebar, I sometimes use Cool-iris...but the web is not up to speed on that one. It's whatever is comfortable for the user over the intermediate...and ultimately long...term that is really the download that counts.

How many times have I downloaded something...said this sucks, or really isn't my thing...and just pulled the plug on it. You don't count the negative responses, all you see are the positive ones.

It's all a big laboratory out there (here) and maybe what you should be counting are the updates to all of these downloads.

After I update my Firefox there is always a group of add-ons that are no longer compatible with the new program...soon though there will be updates for my add-ons. Of course a lot of that is automatic so maybe that's not a very good tell either.

Maybe what would be a good tell on the update of the add-ons would be the number of updates that occur immediately following the release of the updates. I know I want my Yoono...or StumbleUpon...or any other regularly used add-on updated as soon as possible.

[kmrinsparks]

Thanks for the heads-up on K-Meleon and Flock. Just downloaded both to try them out. I've recently been trying out Chrome but don't know it well enough to comment. I love my Firefox add-ons so it's going to be a challenge to compete with, for instance, the Yoono's "Discoveries/Similar Sites" gadget. How many sites have I found just be sliding over the sidebar?

As for IE...the only use I have for it is for the times I must have it to download something from MS.

[myuseridalreadytaken]

Speaking for myself, I have 5 computers, all of which I use Firefox as my primary browser. I need to download Firefox 5 times when a new version comes out but on any given day I am using mostly one computer. If you are tracking number of users at a given site, I will count as one but I will have 5 downloads.

[funchords]

Many of us are users of more than one computer, only one or two we use regularly. I have Firefox on all of my computers. Just yesterday, I logged on to one computer GUI that I usually only access via SSH, and I had to update two page fulls of extensions -- it had been that long.