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I like how everything here is using the word "lost." Well, they weren't gained, but they certainly weren't lost. I somehow doubt that people decided against d

• shardling 14y ago
  > I somehow doubt that people decided against downloading Firefox because it wasn't in the browser ballot. Did you read the article? >Daily downloads of Firefox fell by 63% to a low of 20,000 before the ballot was reinstated, Harvey Anderson, vice president of business affairs and general counsel at Mozilla, said in a post on his personal blog. >After the fix, downloads jumped by 150% to 50,000 a day, he said - estimating that between six and nine million downloads were "lost" during the 18 months the browser ballot was missing.