Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone
by JohnBooty on Thursday October 16, 2014 @09:12PM
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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 absolute number of Firefox users has remained stable or even grown.
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.
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.
source: 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-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.