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Re: Flock still trying to take flight

Lloyd Dewolf — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:17:30 -0000

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

Re: Flock still trying to take flight

Eric Eldon — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:19:31 -0000

@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?

Re: Flock still trying to take flight

Paul Kim — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:58:04 -0000

We're at 370 million downloads and counting, Matt. There's an accurate counter at http://spreadfirefox.com.

Re: Flock still trying to take flight

Chris — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:36:44 -0000

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.

Re: Flock still trying to take flight

Chris — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:29:51 -0000

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.