RSS41 million Firefox MajorUpdates in 7 days?!?
02 Sep 2008
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Just back from vacation (more on that later), and just noticed it was exactly 7 days (to the minute) since we made FF2.0.0.16 -> FF3.0.1 Major Update live, so I had to go look. In those 7 days, we’ve now served major updates to 41,300,460 users.
That’s an average of 4097 major updates *per minute*, or 68 major updates *per second*, over the entire week. And still going…
No matter how you think of it, that is a lot of people. For comparison, the nearest I could find was the entire population of Argentina (40,677,348). Or 10 times (!) the population of Ireland (4,156,119)… although hard to imagine this planet being big enough for 10 Irelands 
So far, this Major Update release still feels like it went really smoothly. I haven’t heard of any problems yet, but if you’ve heard of anyone hitting any problems (or you’ve hit problems yourself), please do file a bug.
Meanwhile, back to unpacking, and trying to catch up on the last week of planet.mozilla.org…
pd
02 Sep 2008 @ 22:27:58
This is a great testament to the developer-friendliness of Firefox. Instead of waiting for 3/6/12/18 months to roll out a browser, like Microsloth, Mozilla get’s it out there quick smart so that developers can write code for the new version. In the case of Fx2 -> 3 this is critical because Fx2 was a performance bottleneck compared to the improved (but still a long way to go judging by Chrome) Fx3.