My mother has been staying with me and my family this past week. I told her about the Firefox 4 release, and showed her glow.mozilla.org.
She was mesmerized: “There’s one in Japan… oh, one in Sydney… South America’s doing well… several in Russia…” I’ve pulled my laptop out to show her it several times, and given her download counts multiple times a day: “7.1 million in the first day… 10 million… 22 million… 35.5 million…” As a result, I’ve gone on to explain to her a lot more about Firefox, its history, competition between browsers, and how I contribute to Firefox.
I give a big thank you and congratulations to the metrics team for presenting some potentially dry statistics in a beautiful, compelling and easy-to-understand manner!
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Leaving the Northern Territory out of the Australian stats breakdown is a bit rude. It’s lumped in under “Other”.
I think glow should be available as a screensaver!
Hoges: Northern Territory is there now! Here are the current stats:
New South Wales 251,258
Victoria 203,340
Queensland 124,202
Western Australia 68,065
South Australia 48,761
Other 20,209
Australian Capital Territory 16,472
Tasmania 12,997
Northern Territory 660
I have no idea what “Other” covers, and how it could have more downloads than both ACT and Tasmania. Weird.