Major update to Firefox 3.5 (the day after)

Jul 01

JohnUncategorized 5 Comments

Looking at the people who moved to FF3.5.0 yesterday:

  • 65% downloaded the FF3.5.0 installer and installed from it
  • 35% manually did Help->CheckForUpdates

That is a large percentage of people doing CheckForUpdates.

Considering this was our first time having Major Update available on release day, and considering there was no user prompting of this new major update ability, I found these percentages quite delightfully stunning.

5 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. Majken "Lucy" Connor
    Jul 01, 2009 @ 19:00:49

    While there wasn’t an official marketing push, it did get out on twitter that you could use the check for updates option. Might be worth checking how many tweets about it were posted as that’s a really great result.

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  2. Stuart
    Jul 01, 2009 @ 19:16:12

    Why would that be stunning? I suspect the only reason it’s that *low* is that the inability to get previous updates that way has trained a lot of users that it doesn’t work.

    I’m very glad that it works right now. Makes a big difference in terms of feeling like Firefox is a solid and supported end-user product.

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  3. Tchung
    Jul 01, 2009 @ 19:31:29

    Hey John, the testing paid off over the quarter, so great props to the team on getting that working! Question, do you know if there were any indications of failed checkforupdates attempts and any AUS server issues? I’d be curious on the % of failed attempts if we were able to track that.

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  4. jim l.
    Jul 07, 2009 @ 20:12:13

    downloaded ff 3.5 .everything work,s fine until exit. cpu turns up to 105% .have to end the process at the manager. have switched to google.

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