1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days

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1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 19, 2004 @01:56AM from the more-bytes-than-you-can-count dept.

Dodger73 writes "The Mozilla guys would have liked to reach 1 Million downloads of the Firefox 1.0 pre-release version within ten days of its release. After four days, the download counter now shows 1,006,060 downloads, surpassing the 10^6 mark more than twice as fast as they desired! Congratulations!"

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behold! by Mr.+Foogle · 2004-09-19 02:00 · Score: 5, Funny

behold the power of wget and a script. Lets you really rack up the ol' hit counter.

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1. Re:behold! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 02:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  behold the power of wget and a script. Lets you really rack up the ol' hit counter.
  
  Real geeks just submit the link to /.
Re:How many of these are repeats though? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 02:01 · Score: 5, Funny

That's only two installs. What did you do with the third download? HOARDING are we?
awesome by digifuzz · 2004-09-19 02:03 · Score: 2, Funny

sweet. firefox has got to be by far the coolest, most "right on" web browser i've ever used. I tried using IE the other day at work. *cringe* i missed my firefox. it's not surprise that so many people in the downloading public obviously agree.

way to go firefox team.

ps: speaking of firefoxes.. i got some booty last nite :) thought i'd share. ;)

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1. Re:awesome by irbdavid · 2004-09-19 02:11 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  ps: speaking of firefoxes.. i got some booty last nite :) thought i'd share. ;)
  You mean you browsed porn. Although, the tabbed browsing does make this easier...
  
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2. Re:awesome by sharkey · 2004-09-19 03:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  i got some booty last nite :)
  You were a day early, matey. Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, arrr.
  
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3. Re:awesome by ThousandStars · 2004-09-19 04:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ps: speaking of firefoxes.. i got some booty last nite :) thought i'd share. ;)
  You forgot this part:
  and then i woke up.
Re:How many of these are repeats though? by andywebz · 2004-09-19 02:04 · Score: 5, Funny

I described my 2 work installs. I posted on slashdot, so I OBVIOUSLY have a linux box at home.

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Re:Link to get it by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 02:04 · Score: 4, Funny

I use Linux, you insensitive clod!
Great... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 02:05 · Score: 1, Funny

Mission accomplished. Now we can all stop bothering...
Reporter to Bill$ Gate$ by zero_config · 2004-09-19 02:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Reporter: "Mr. Gate$, what do you think of Firefox?"
Gate$: "I think its a myth. There are foxes and then there are foxes. There is no such thing as a Fire fox. And now if you'd excuse me, there is a Long Horn up my ass, I have to go see someone abt it."
Re:no prize? by Xshare · 2004-09-19 02:12 · Score: 5, Funny

There was, but when the winner saw the "You're the 1 Millionth downloader!!", he closed it thinking it's just an ad. That or firefox blocked it like all the other ones. :)
i downloaded it 112021 times by floydman · 2004-09-19 02:19 · Score: 2, Funny

what about you guys

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Raises hand by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 02:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Okay, I admit it. I downloaded 999,942 of those copies. I was stress testing the download mirrors they've passed. They can survive a good slashdotting.

I've already stress tested the websites of Mono, OpenOffice, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Fedora, SuSE, and other open source apps. They all pass too.

You don't honestly think that open source is that popular, do you?

(Okay, sacrasm aside, yes, there are multiple downloads. In your case, you had three downloads for two computers, but I think this is the exception. One download can serve more than one computer and in an office or "sneaker net" setting, that's the most likely outcome)
Re:How many did you contribute? by LiquidCoooled · 2004-09-19 02:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Best feature for me has to be the highlighted text search (ctrl f).

Its like bringing the search results up from google cache.

My gf has fallen in love with the "Nuke anything" extension, she thinks its cool to make geek stuff go away bit by bit (she sits and wipes out bits of /.). There was a slight pause as I told her it was being deleted it from the entire internet ;)

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Still needs IE by pikine · 2004-09-19 02:32 · Score: 2, Funny

From the author's page:

Windows Update - Adds a Windows Update menuitem under the Firefox (0.9+) tools menu (Opens IE to windowsupdate site)

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This is interesting by cioxx · 2004-09-19 02:37 · Score: 4, Funny

The blog closely resembles Howard Dean's campaign blog circa Democratic Primaries, with similar rhetoric, complete with donation solicitations, volunteer kits, etc. The parallels are eerie. I think it's great!

Dean: "Take back your country"

Firefox: "Take back the web"

"Not only are we going to get downloaded in New Hampshire ... but also in South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico! We're going to make users uninstall IE in California and Texas and New York. And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan and then we're going to Redmond, to take back the web! Yeeeeeeah!"
Re:Most of that is probably from previous users by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-19 03:14 · Score: 1, Funny

And for people like me, who set up a wget script to download it 50 or 60 times in succession.....
Re:New Firefox Users by Garion+Maki · 2004-09-19 03:43 · Score: 2, Funny

"We're gonna take back the web. This is only the beginning"
* plays some matrix music *

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Re:Link to get it by aurb · 2004-09-19 04:16 · Score: 5, Funny

You can run it with wine.
Re:Firefox vs. Windows update by Shazow · 2004-09-19 06:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Shit, I just had a strong urge to install this extension and visit the Windows Update site because I haven't visited in a long time. Just think of the outdatedness of my computer!

Then I realized... Wait, do I even have IE anymore? Then I realized... I switched to Linux last month.

(Not being sarcastic... I really did have an urge.)
>.;

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Help boast the counter... by shoemakc · 2004-09-19 06:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Comon guys, we can do better then that....
#!/bin/bash #Boost the Firefox Hit counter DATE=date +%m%Y until [ "$DATE" = "092050" ] do wget -P /tmp/ http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/0.10/Firefox%20Setup%201.0PR.exe rm -f /tmp/Firefox%20Setup%201.0PR.exe done

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Re:How many of these are repeats though? by Billly+Gates · 2004-09-19 08:29 · Score: 4, Funny

What a minute?

You mean you browse slashdot.... at home??

Shit what do you do all day at work then?

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Re:Link to get it by danheretic · 2004-09-19 16:05 · Score: 2, Funny

I had to download 3 extensions to make FF work like IE and to get the tabbed browsing working "as advertised", plus hit about:config once.

That's cool. I had to download about 13 "updates" from MS to make IE work without getting malware and to get it working "as advertised", plus go to Tools > Options and change several settings.

Do you really want to start keeping score like that?
Re:Link to get it by r_j_prahad · 2004-09-19 19:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Why don't you just tell us what these three extensions [to make FF work like IE] were for?

That would be the "Execute Malicious Code without Asking" extension, the "Expose Sensitive Personal Data" extension, and lastly the "Randomly Turn Blue and Go Comatose" extension.