Linux Pale Moon Downloads: Increasing Or Decreasing

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Linux Pale Moon Downloads: Increasing Or Decreasing

Post by Night Wing » 2024-05-28, 16:24

I am just curious for those in the know.

Linux Pale Moon was first released publicly in January of 2014. I was one of the those who used it when it was released back in January of 2014. I used it back then when I was linux distro hopping.

I use linux 64 bit GTK2 Pale Moon as my default browser of choice in my three current 64 bit linux distros on three of my four computers (2 desktop towers, 1 laptop) which is a total of 7 SSD's.

On a side note. My linux Pale Moon is "not" installed in any of my current three linux distros (Linux Mint, MX Linux, Linux Debian).

Fast forward to today in 2024. I was wondering if the downloads for linux Pale Moon have been steadily increasing or decreasing during the last decade of time?
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Re: Linux Pale Moon Downloads: Increasing Or Decreasing

Post by Moonchild » 2024-05-28, 17:10

We don't know, because we do not gather that kind of data. Also, "downloads" isn't a good measurement for anything.
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Re: Linux Pale Moon Downloads: Increasing Or Decreasing

Post by Pentium4User » 2024-05-28, 19:03

The repositories for Linux are also there and some distributions include it in their repo. That will be mirrored to many other sites.
Really hard to get the real userbase out of that information.
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Re: Linux Pale Moon Downloads: Increasing Or Decreasing

Post by micwoj92 » 2024-05-28, 20:43

Arch Linux has pkgstats where you can see relative usage of packages: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages?query=palemoon
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Re: Linux Pale Moon Downloads: Increasing Or Decreasing

Post by andyprough » 2024-05-29, 05:49

Probably increasing, since the number of distros that offer it has increased so much: https://repology.org/project/palemoon/versions
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