Re: [News] Firefox About to Exceed 1,000,000,000 Downloads
amicus_curious wrote:
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>>> Celebrate 1 billion Firefox downloads
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>> And 999,998,000,000 of the downloads have been Firefox for Windows.
>> That's why Firefox for Windows runs much faster than the Linux version.
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> Somewhere on the order of 1 billion is the size of the entire installed
> base
> of PC world-wide. If Firefox has had such a download experience, why have
> so many of these installation fallen into disuse? Do people actually
> prefer IE once they have Firefox installed and cease using Firefox? Or
> are they just reluctant to do much web surfing and IE users are much more
> prolific? There must be some reason.
The reason is perfectly simple: Firefox doesn't fall into disuse, but
Windows becomes unusable after a while -- which is usually "remedied" by a
reinstall. And with each reinstall of Windows, all applications must be
reinstalled as well. This means that each Windows Firefox user downloads
and installs Firefox approximately once a year.
Richard Rasker
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http://www.linetec.nl
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