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1. Comment - Google Chrome 4: Yes, it's fast, but is it usable?

   (Nov 7, 2009 - 3:07 PM)

   "With Mozilla, the newest code is developed under a private track, which only means that the developers aren't taking comments from the public about it, even though it's publicly available."
   
   Not true. You can get on Firefox's "nightly channel" and get updates to Firefox every single day. If that's not enough, you can download tinderbox and tryserver builds pretty much hourly. It is absolutely not developed in private in any way.
   
   - A

2. Comment - Mozilla: Privacy concerns initially prevented some upgrades to Firefox 3

   (Aug 27, 2009 - 7:14 PM)

   If the survey is accurate, then fewer than 1.5% of Firefox users are still on Firefox 2 because of concerns about the awesomebar. I don't think that's a very big problem.

3. Comment - Firefox hits 1 billion downloads!

   (Jul 31, 2009 - 1:33 PM)

   IE doesn't get downloaded an awful lot. It ships on every new WIndows PC or is pushed on people through Windows Update. Firefox isn't counting either of those kinds of distribution techniques in its number.

4. Comment - Firefox hits 1 billion downloads!

   (Jul 31, 2009 - 1:32 PM)

   "How many zealots clicking download angain & again, just like the 'padded' voting we commonly see on polls?"
   
   I'd wager to guess that it's very few. How can you pad 1 billion downloads. You can't.
   
   I'd ask the other direction. How many sysadmins downloaded it once and installed it on 10 machines or 1000 machines or 100000 machines (like IBM did) ?

5. Comment - Firefox hits 1 billion downloads!

   (Jul 31, 2009 - 1:31 PM)

   This is from 1.0 forwar and does not count automatic updates. These are use-initiated downloads.
   
   And yes, this does matter. This is one metric our community can directly engage with through our downloads affiliate program at spreadfirefox.com. You don't get a user without a download.
   
   Marketshare (usage / page views) is equally useful. So is absolute users which is at about 300 million active users.