Comments on: Firefox passes 400 million downloads

Mozilla shares a new statistic for those of you who pay attention to the Web browser race. But when's the new Firefox beta due?

[cchenoweth6]

Always a BS number

I have downloaded it over 10 times myself. I use it about 5% of the time. I liked it better than IE6.. but IE7 is fine for me.

[this1!]

good for you...

why should we care...

the article itself already aludes to the fact the number is bloated, most of us have downloaded it more than once, but as he also pointed out, many users who have linux already have firefox as it comes standard on most linux desktop managers.

[Shankland]

Even if it's a BS number

It's still a mighty big BS number. And even downloads that aren't used still indicate some active selection on the part of the user, so it's hard to value all the way at zero. Even if the number is off by an order of magnitude, that's still 40 million downloads. It's also possible that there are any number of unofficial but perfectly legitimate sites from which it can be downloaded. CNET's download.com, for example, tallies 11 million downloads for the Windows version: http://www.download.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356_4-10719259.html