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1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days
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!"
I suspect that most of the downloads were made by the existing Firefox users who wanted to upgrade to the new version.
What we need is some way to get 1,000,000 new Firefox users and increase Firefox's numbers at the expense of MSIE.
This will encourage (or perhaps even force) shoddy web designers to design more standards-compliant sites and make life a lot easier for designers who already do. If only IE7 supported the Mac version of MSIE...
Since everyone and their dog could potentially be using Firefox in the future, could this be a bad thing? Crackers and Viruses galore for Firefox or would the open source team be able to deal with them? Not that I don't like Firefox, I love it. It's just that Viruses spread best on the most popular systems.
1) Switching tabs does not update the window title. WTF?! I don't want my window to have the wrong title! It isn't the first tab or anything like that. Just whichever one it likes.
;-) Automated extension updating, shockwave is a plugin. Perhaps, this should be automatically updated too. Make a bug report, don't just bitch on Slashdot.
I can't repeat this on my installation on Linux. Switching tabs changes the window title text.
2) I don't want a fucking top bar every time a popup is blocked. What was wrong with the icon at the bottom? Oh yeah, SP2 added their "Information Bar" crap, so Firefox has to have it! What if the popup comes up after a few seconds? Does all the page content move down to allow for their Information Bar thing? (I don't know, somebody tell)
This I agree can be annoying, should be a configurable option. Didn't find any option for it while I looked through the preferences to turn it off (for those people who may not want the plugin)
4) I don't know why, but the automated installing extensions thing doesn't work (for Shockwave at least). Looked cool though.
I think you said it yourself...
The find-as-you-type thing, works perfectly the way I would expect it too. ie... If I have two tabs open, I can perform seperate searches in each.
All in all, this is one of the better releases that I've used and I've been using it now since about 0.7.
Do you have a reference to this intention?
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