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Firefox News Roundup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yee-ha dept.

Spaceman40 sent in this ZDNet story. PeterPumpkin collects way too many links to Firefox stories: "According to SpreadFirefox.com , there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day. There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine. According to a report on MozillaZine, Denmark's largest television channel, TV2, reported on the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. PC-WELT, the German equivalent of PC-World, is distributing their own customised version of Firefox to customers." Thomas Hawk writes "Rather than go outside for the past 48 hours, Scott Granneman prefers to burrow in his den and come up with one of the first definitive lists of Firefox links. Good geeking Scott. And way to overcompensate."

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  1. Firefox News by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fair and Balanced!

    Oops sorry, wrong thread...

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  2. Good geeking Scott. by YetAnotherName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scott, for your sake, I hope there's a 12-Step Program out there for you.

  3. You'll Still never pull me away from 'Gopher'!!! by Timmy+D+Programmer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, so mabye I do use Mozilla. But I thought I'de be the one to remind us of the abnoxiously user unfriendly 'surfing' tools we started out with.

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  4. Even hard-line Islamist news portals like Firefox! by CdBee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Al-Jazeera: Mozilla's Firefox renews browser war

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  5. Math? by SlayerofGods · · Score: 5, Funny
    there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day
    Or 600,000 per day.....
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    1. Re:Math? by Bobman1235 · · Score: 4, Funny
      there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day

      Or 600,000 per day.....

      Hey, Captain semantics.

      • there were
      • almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day


      SO, what the parent said was more accurate than what you said, yes?

  6. Wow... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. Matt Drudge is a fellow Opera user? All of a sudden, I feel dirty.

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  7. Re:Matt Drudge by tfreport · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course that is why he does not have popups on his website and he made sure to put a link up at Firefox's release (or Opera's) where his readers would have immediate access and not having to go to their computer after the radio show. Wait, he did not do those things? Glad he is adding to the cause when he can actually make a difference.

  8. Firefox, choice of the pr0n-loving generation! by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Face it, the only reason you get mal-ware is from cruising the seamier side of the internet looking for free pr0n. If you were good, upstanding, moral Christians, you would use IE.

    Firefox : tool of The Devil, it's right in the name!

    goddamn I wish I could post this drek Anonymously...

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  9. no fair! by i_should_be_working · · Score: 5, Funny

    how the hell are we supposed to slashdot a site if the article has 15+ links in it?

    1. Re:no fair! by Darwin_Frog · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is another area in which Firefox is superior to IE. Everyone just open 15 tabs, one for each link. IE would require 15 windows for an equivalent /.ing. Firefox: making it easier to set web servers on fire.

  10. Re:English translation by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Firefox needs a spell checker... Um Yea. I don't see one installed. The number of posts of people like the parent there who are superior because of thir spelling ability usually drops when I am using OS X whose text areas boxes have red underline spell checking.

  11. Re:What amazes me... by flossie · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...is that for at least a half-dozen years that half-million users could have coughed up a measely thirty bucks and had Opera.

    Why would anyone pay for Opera when we have had lynx all this time for free?

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  12. Re:English translation by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 4, Funny

    You grammar/spelling nazi!