With Firefox 4
launched about a
month ago, it seems
to be one of the most successful Mozilla
releases till now. Though it didn't beat the record for the highest number of downloads on the first day, it came close, Firefox 4 continued to make headway and has now
reached a massive 100 million downloads, according to Mozilla's counter.
It took Firefox 4 exactly one month to reach this point and it's arather impressive number signifying greater days ahead for the mozilla team.
This means that many Firefox users have already updated to the latest version and
Firefox 4 should be catching up to Firefox 3.6 in a while.
Firefox has several hundred million users around the world,
but getting them to upgrade to the latest version usually takes
several months .
Though that there are still some users out there running Firefox 3.0 or even Firefox 2.0, it shouldn't be
expected to have everyone running Firefox 4.0 any time
soon.
This has always been the case, but it wasn't much of a problem
since it took anywhere from six
months to a year and a half to get a new version out the door.
Mozilla doesn't have that kind of time now, Firefox 5 is coming in
two months or so and Firefox 6 a month and a half after that.
Firefox 4 may only be catching up to Firefox 3.6 by the time
Firefox 5 comes out. That said, once people start moving to Firefox 5 things will go much easier since all updates will be silent and automated.
Firefox 4 is the last release done via the traditional model so it
may be the last time download stats mean anything for the
Mozilla browser. If you haven't been keeping track, Firefox 4 got 7.1 million downloads in the
first day, 15.8 million in two days.
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