On the heels of this week’s announcement that Firefox recently surpassed 50% market share in Indonesia, we thought it would be interesting to look at what other regions are also nearing this amazing milestone. Thanks to Net Applications, we’re able to share this data, which is typically only available via a subscription to their service. [...]
Wow! According to Net Applications, Firefox surpassed the 50% mark in June 2008 (subscription required for country breakdown). We know we’ve been very close to passing this mark in several European countries, including Finland, Slovenia and Poland, according to Xiti, so we were excited to see this news about Indonesia. As some background information, Indonesia [...]
A couple months ago, we speculated on what the Firefox 3 universe would look like approximately one month after launch. In that analysis, we took our download and usage numbers from the time period following Firefox 2’s launch in 2006 and extrapolated from there. We’re now exactly one month removed from Download Day, so we [...]
This September, we’re planning to launch the Mozilla Marketing Challenge (the name is subject to change), with the goals of attempting to solve a key Mozilla marketing problem, providing an additional avenue for participation in our marketing efforts, and creating a forum for shared learnings across similar hybrid organizations.
So, why a blog post today?
First, we [...]
Many of us at Mozilla and within the Mozilla community were excited when Stephen Colbert gave Firefox 3 his “Colbert Bump” on the day of Firefox 3’s launch (a big thanks to Jonathan Zittrain). You can watch the video here.
Download Day was a wild success, and we were happy to share some thanks and credit [...]
We recently looked at the spike in activity of Firefox related search terms on Download Day. Following up on that post, I wanted to find other interesting ways to put the launch into perspective. For example, looking at “Firefox” on Google Trends shows us that traffic of firefox was off the charts during launch – [...]
