{"id":36,"date":"2008-04-22T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/04\/22\/the-early-rise-of-firefox-3-adoption\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:07:14","slug":"the-early-rise-of-firefox-3-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/04\/22\/the-early-rise-of-firefox-3-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Rise of Firefox 3 Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for some time that Firefox 3 (beta versions) is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nitot\/2289897020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted at incredible rates<\/a>.\u00a0 In other words, in terms of aggregate numbers of active daily users, we&#8217;ve seen far more users of Fx3 beta than we ever saw with Fx2 beta.<\/p>\n<p>I was curious about taking this knowledge one step further \u2013 how does the adoption rate compare on a percentage basis across time periods?<\/p>\n<p>In late September 2006 (one month prior to the official release of Fx2), here&#8217;s what the situation looked like:<br \/>\n(Fx2 beta users)\/(Fx1.5 users) = 1.4%<\/p>\n<p>Today, here&#8217;s what the current situation looks like for Firefox 3:<br \/>\n(Fx3 beta users)\/(Fx2 users) = 2.0%<\/p>\n<p>How should one interpret these numbers?\u00a0 There are certainly different ways to think about this.\u00a0 However, I think the biggest takeaway is two-fold: (1) Firefox 3 rocks and (2) our users remain extraordinarily passionate.\u00a0 Downloading a beta product requires a user to both make an informed decision and go out of their way to intentionally take an action, and the fact that millions of people around the globe have already taken this step with Firefox 3 is utterly amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for some time that Firefox 3 (beta versions) is being adopted at incredible rates.\u00a0 In other words, in terms of aggregate numbers of active daily users, we&#8217;ve seen far more users of Fx3 beta than we ever saw &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2008\/04\/22\/the-early-rise-of-firefox-3-adoption\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}