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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. Re:Most of that is probably from previous users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would seriously doubt that this represents anything like 1 million new users.

    Has anyone suggested or in any way implied that they were new users?

  2. Re:Most of that is probably from previous users by AgntOrnge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or people who downloaded it to multiple locations such as work and home. The release was also within a day or so of a secuirty announcement so everyone was going to rush to upgrade all of their installs.

  3. Re:Most of that is probably from previous users by bobbis.u · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but it does potentially represent that it has been installed on 1 million computers, which is no mean feat in 4 days.

  4. Re:How many of these are repeats though? by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but for everyone one of you there is probably one like me. 2 downloads, 1 went to work network server and 8 installs at work. the other went to my home file sharing server, and on to 4 machines.

  5. Now how about fixing slashdot? by feldhaus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's 1,000,000 potential people annoyed with Slashdot's dodgy rendering in Firefox.

    Surely somebody here could fix it?

  6. Early Hype a mistake by orangeguru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IMHO it's a big mistake to make create such a hype on the web for the prerelease version:

    * there are still some nasty bugs in there (like some HTML rendering), so they should have waited for a proper 1.0

    * many cool plugins and themes haven't been updated for 1.0PR - which would demonstrate the full power of FF

    * I can see many avarage Joes downloading 1.0PR and never updating it - jeust because of the buzz

    * maybe they should have started the hype, when FF and Thunderbird were ready for 1.0 - so they could offer both in a bundle?

    * I still think many major features are either to hidden or need a plugin: mouse gestures should be in by default and 'search in page' is way toooo geeky

    * there should be better mechanisms in the software / first startup to make users download their 'usual' plugins (they already have in IE) like Flash, QuickTime and RealPlayer - so that FF will work properly with their usual sites

    1. Re:Early Hype a mistake by Woy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      * many cool plugins and themes haven't been updated for 1.0PR - which would demonstrate the full power of FF

      I find that the most glaring error in firefox. The plugins that need updating EVERY SINGLE VERSION of it. I mean, how hard can it be to make the plugins work across versions? Is the interface changing EVERY version? Is the change worth it? Is it getting THAT much better for plugin programmers? What they'll acomplish with this is that they'll burn trought the good will of the plugin programmers before releasing 1.0 final.

      --
      "If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated." - Voltaire
  7. Re:Link to get it by aurelian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get a grip, that wasn't FUD. He may have been mistaken, but there was nothing malicious about it.

  8. Re:Link to get it by Schreckgestalt · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.

    Why don't you just tell us what these three extensions were for? I mean hell, how do you think the thing is going to improve if all you say is "it sucks". I really think this version of Firefox is somewhat complete and far superior than IE in its default state.

    And what about the tabbed browsing? Everything works like expected to me.

    then build a "consumer" download

    What a brilliant idea. There should also be a Google for the intelligent and one for the stupid masses. And there should also be a 2.6.x kernel for people who know what thei're doing and one for those who don't. No, this is really a bad idea. There should always be one product, which needs to be compatible with every type of user. Firefox is doing this in a great way!