Where are we with Firefox 3?
9 June 2008Thanks to the hard and dedicated work of the Mozilla community Firefox 3 Release Candiate 2 (RC2) shipped last week in an unbelievable 48 languages! RC2 is 15th major milestone on the way to Firefox 3 final release:
At the beginning of 2007 we had approximately 25k daily users of the early FF3 builds, that number grew to 50k as we approached Alpha 8 and last week there we over 2,000,000 daily users of Firefox 3. The daily public builds, many many major milestones, and thousands to millions of testers are all part of our process to ensure that Firefox 3 is the best browser you’ve ever used. We are still collecting feedback on RC2 and putting the final touches on the assoicated web sites around the Firefox 3 – but the final version is coming very soon.
14 Responses to “Where are we with Firefox 3?”
June 9th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Is a third release candidate likely at this point?
June 9th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
how do you measure the daily usage?
June 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Bug 436575 may cause an RC3 on Mac. It’s a bug in Mac OS X introduced in a recent update (Mac OS X 10.5.3), but Apple hasn’t shown any sign that they’re planning to fix it quickly.
June 9th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Glob there is a good explanation of how we estimate usage here: http://john.jubjubs.net/2007/11/27/mozilla-firefox-market-share/
June 10th, 2008 at 1:13 am
at http://john.jubjubs.net/2007/11/27/mozilla-firefox-market-share/
it was mentioned that there was a 10% drop in usage after a security update. Did anyone figure out what was causing that?
June 10th, 2008 at 2:33 am
2 millions… YAY!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Do you have a per-platform (Windows, OS X, Linux) breakdown for it?
June 10th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Colin it is approximately 91% windows, 8% mac and < 1% linux. Although we are pretty sure this estimate under counts Linux since many distro’s turn off our update service to use their own.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:26 am
great graph! this is so exciting!
June 12th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
http://vitadigitale.corriere.it/2008/06/firefox_sta_per_superare_explo.html
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 am
I hate firefox 3 personally. Is there any way to go back to the 2.0 version?
September 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Bug 436575 may cause an RC3 on Mac. It’s a bug in Mac OS X introduced in a recent update
September 10th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
but Apple hasn’t shown any sign that they’re planning to fix it quickly.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Colin it is approximately 91% windows, 8% mac and < 1% linux. Although we are pretty sure this estimate under counts Linux since many distro’s turn off our update service to use their own….