Congrats on 500 Million, Firefox, But Isn’t It Time to Stop Counting? - SendMeRSS
Posted by elveston priory at 10:08 am
SpreadFirefox claims that Firefox has been downloaded 500 million times; to celebrate the event, they’re raising raising 500,000,000 grains of rice to help feed the world’s poor. It’s all nice and dandy, and being a long-time Firefox (and before it, Mozilla) user, I’ve also been anxiously following their progress…up to a point.
Right now, I think they should stop counting downloads and start talking about market share. Downloads are pointless at this stage - who knows how many people are downloading Firefox for the first time, and how many are simply downloading the new version, or installing it on a new computer? At the beginning, it was a great measurement of (then brand new and relatively unknown) the browser’s popularity, but right now, they should start celebrating market share gains - 20, 30, 40%. Yeah, I know it’s harder.