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1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Link to get it by bobbis.u · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about adding a few more downloads?! Get it here.

    1. Re:Link to get it by Myen · · Score: 5, Informative

      See bug 121832 on bugzilla.mozilla.org
      They did talk to them; Yahoo replied that they want to be able to script Windows Media Player (plugin). Not sure what's happenning now.

      It would probably help if you complained to Yahoo as well (hopefully more complaints would help motivate them to fix things).

    2. Re:Link to get it by dwhitman · · Score: 5, Informative
      Grandparent: Still, keep in mind that Firefox was originally meant to be a Windows program (but it doesn't hurt to be available on multiple platforms though, which I'm definitely in support of).

      Parent: Do you have a reference to this intention?

      The opening paragraph of the Firefox Development Charter says:

      Firefox grew out of the desire to make the best browser for Microsoft Windows. Eventually we began to build on Linux as well, and also Macintosh. Most of our development work is done on Windows, and so that platform naturally tends to lead although we express a desire to work as well as is feasible on every system we can.

  2. More downloads... by dutt · · Score: 5, Informative
    If the amount is over one million at the download counter on their site, then it doesn't meen that it's only one million downloads.

    Copies are spread through many other sources so the actual amount of downloads is probably much more than the download counter indicates!

    Congrats Firefox!

  3. Re:Now how about fixing slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should take a look at slashdot through the W3C markup validator.

    Of course, the Slashdot Moderators(tm) don't want you to look at the site through the w3c. That's why you get the 403 forbidden error. However, if you save a page from this site and upload just that html file to w3c, you'll get over a hundred html errors. Try it with this story and you'll see what I'm talking about.

    And people wonder why this site doesn't render right on different browsers, sheesh.

    Shaggy

    p.s. Yes, I know it's easier to bitch and moan than to actually do something about it. But damnit Jim, I'm a bicycle mechanic, not a programmer!

  4. Re:It's a conspiracy... ok not really, but sort of by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    With almost every release of Mozilla based products, we fix security bugs. We announce those security bugs when we release, that's our standard operating procedure. See http://www.mozilla.org/security/ and http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vul nerabilities.html.

    We're very proud of our new Security Bug Bounty program which went into effect well before the Firefox PR shipped. That program helped us identify and fix several more security bugs than might have otherwise been fixed in this release.

    The PR was actually release a couple of weeks behind schedule, in part due to our being busy working on fixing a couple of security and privacy issues. We certainly didn't "throw together a preview for the sake of not having to announce it as a fix for major exploits." What actually happened was that we announced the security fixes to the public and to security research firms like Secunia when we shipped PR. They found out about the problem because we shipped and we disclosed the bugs -- our normal process.

    You seem to have the misconception that the security issues were about to be disclosed so we rushed a release out. That's just not the case. It was the Mozilla Foundation that made the security disclosures. We do that each time we ship a new release that has security related bug fixes.

    --Asa

  5. Re:Now how about fixing slashdot? by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. This bug still apears in 1.0PR.
    It comes from the ability to view the site while not all of the data was already downloaded. In case images don't have their size properties, it assumes a default value and forgets to update it when the data appears.

    To fix, simply ctrl- and ctrl+ to change font size and it'll fix the layout.

    --
    ^_^
  6. Re:What's so "cool" about FireFox? by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, given the increasing number of broadband users in the USA, the difference in download times for FireFox and Mozilla 1.7.3 is no longer significant.

    The difference between 4.5 MB and 11MB is dramatic for the 60 million (49%) US internet users who still don't have broadband.

    I'm not sure how a figure like "half" isn't significant. Half of the US still isn't on broadband and for them, Firefox downloading much easier than Mozilla. Firefox is about the size of an MP3. People can relate to downloading something that size.

    But Mozilla has a few things that FireFox lacks right now: 1) better page-rendering accuracy and 2) a very good mail and newsgroup reader.

    Mozilla and Firefox share the same Gecko rendering engine so I'm not sure where you get the "better page-rendering accuracy" from. Firefox has a powerful companion e-mail application called Thunderbird for anyone who needs a great (not "good") email and newsgroup reader. Thunderbird is to Mozilla email what Firefox is to Mozilla browser.

    --Asa