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My friend, Firefox has half a billion active users. Half a billion. While their usage share has declined, the overall number of Internet users has grown, so the
by JohnBooty 12y ago
My friend, Firefox has half a billion active users. Half a billion. While their usage share has declined, the overall number of Internet users has grown, so the absolute number of Firefox users has remained stable or even grown.
source: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/ataglance/ https://blog.mozilla.org/press/ataglance/
Now maybe Mozilla is lying, which I suppose is possible, but they have a pretty good idea of how many people use Mozilla since nearly every copy of Firefox pings Mozilla's servers to check for updates on a regular basis.
Based on Mozilla's usage share relative to Chrome's usage share, that number seems to roughly jive with Google's claims for the number of active Chrome users: http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/25/5841924/google-android-users-1-billion-stats http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/25/5841924/google-android-use...
I wish I was so unfortunate as to create a "legacy softwares" that is still "crawling around" with such a huge, supportive, dedicated user base of half a billion people strong.