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VentureBeat: Flock still trying to take flight

  • Chris · 2 years ago
    I was just at a preso by Mozilla folks that said Firefox had more than 100 million users (which is way more than the 85 million downloads). Do some research man.
  • Chris · 2 years ago
    also, Hardin should check his facts too. if mozilla earned $2 per user as Hardin suggests, Mozilla would be making something near $200 million... i personally have never heard that they are making anywhere near that amount... have you??

    google was the default search for mozilla and then firefox way before google paid mozilla any money (we are talking years). i think it is great flock is making good money from yahoo, but you really should do a little fact checking.
  • Paul Kim · 2 years ago
    We're at 370 million downloads and counting, Matt. There's an accurate counter at http://spreadfirefox.com.
  • Eric Eldon · 2 years ago
    @Chris: You'll see that in the article, I cited Firefox saying Mozilla made $55 million in 2005. In that same article (from May), the CEO guesses that the number of users is between 75-100 million. Another source put it at 85 million. I've clarified that this is not downloads.

    ...which leads me to...

    @Paul: The official counter counts every single download of any release since 1.0. Which means that since I've been using FF since around 1.0, I'll personally account for a download per version through 2.0.0.4.

    So, anyone have a verifiable number of active Firefox users now?
  • Lloyd Budd · 2 years ago
    Software with an update service allows the company to have a pretty good ball park idea of how many active users they have. Of course, this number doesn't look as good as downloads, so you won't be getting it anytime soon.

    Yours truly,
    "One blogger from the Flock developer community",
    Former Flock employee (#9),
    Lloyd Budd