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Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-foxen dept.

bluephone writes "Firefox hit 49,000,000 downloads last night. Today, as we approach 50,000,000, SpreadFirefox is offering prizes for photographic proof of your most amazing spectacles to celebrate. To quote: 'We have a handful of unique prizes that you won't find anywhere else, and we're asking you to do one simple thing to claim one: impress us. As we drive toward 50 million downloads, do something so cool, so unusual and so spectacular to spread Firefox that we can't help but scurry around the Mozilla Foundation to tell every one.' But you don't have long. The Infocraft Firefox Counter shows just over 800,000 downloads left at the time of this submission!"

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  1. Swimming? by Avsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any devs volunteered to swim the Pacific over this?

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    1. Re:Swimming? by tehshen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey, Firefox can't go swimming, because the flames will go out. Which sucks. Maybe the Opera guy could find it and snuggle up to it for warmth if it lasts long enough.

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      Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
    2. Re:Swimming? by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey, Firefox can't go swimming, because the flames will go out.

      Ah, now I get the joke on this link:
      "Should we lower Mitchell, our fearless president, into an erupting volcano?"
      It's a parody of the Opera Atlantic swim, Firefox style!

      BTM

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      That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
  2. Hmmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did the article just ask me to go on a mass shooting spree while wearing a firefox shirt?

    1. Re:Hmmm. by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 4, Funny

      Did the article just ask me to go on a mass shooting spree while wearing a firefox shirt?

      Yes. In Redmond.

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      -1 Uncomfortable Truth
    2. Re:Hmmm. by Servo5678 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Firefox! Firefox here! Get your Firefox!

  3. GNU is a virus = X rated photos? by lilmouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, I'm told GNU is like a Virus, and FireFox is open source, so I can think of a great way *I'd* like to spread it!

    Of course, they may have trouble posting the pictures on spreadfirefox!

    --LWM

    1. Re:GNU is a virus = X rated photos? by winkydink · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is Slashdot.

      Infecting your hand doesn't count as "spreading it".

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      "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

  4. Like this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    #!/bin/bash
    :start
    wget http://www.mozilla.org/Firefox1.0.3Setup.exe
    rm Firefox1.0.3Setup.exe
    goto start

    Besides, real men use Opera.

    1. Re:Like this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      >Besides, real men use Opera.

      Real man use telnet to port 80 or lynx, they don't eat quiche either...

    2. Re:Like this? by biglig2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pah! Real men put the Cat5 in their mouth and interpret the tingling.

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      ~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
    3. Re:Like this? by juggleme · · Score: 3, Funny

      I doubt it. Real men aren't going to do fellatio on a cat5 cable (how else are you going to do a GET?) to read a web page.

    4. Re:Like this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Oh, it goes in the mouth! No wonder all my web pages were brown..

  5. quick.. someone pull this off by peculiarmethod · · Score: 5, Funny

    All you need to do is hack paris hiltons new blackberry, put in a folder called pics, include firefox.exe in it.. release details on slashdot as a troll. BAM. 2 billion installs.

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  6. flaming foxes by weopenlatest · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just dipped a few dozen foxes in lighter fluid and set them scurrying around the park aflame, but those damn firefox people just called me a sick bastard.

  7. I got it! by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will celebrate by rounding up 50,000 actual foxes and setting them all on fire!

    And to really turn it in to a spectacle, I will call PITA and give them advanced warning of the event, so they can round up whoever they can find to try to stop me... and then I'll do it an hour earlier than I said I would.

    MWwaaah-hahahahaha!!!

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

    1. Re:I got it! by winkydink · · Score: 4, Funny

      You mean PETA, but I'm sure a lot of people consider the a PITA. :)

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      "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

    2. Re:I got it! by TheIndefiniteArticle · · Score: 2, Funny

      imagine Eating a member of PiTA

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      get a free laptop
    3. Re:I got it! by Xeo+024 · · Score: 5, Funny

      BREAKING NEWS

      FOXES SET ON FIRE

      Man sets entire population of foxes on fire in the woods of California, as he was arrested and taken away by the authorities, he was heard saying "spreadfirefox.com fools, now where's my prize?" The deluded man was promptly beaten with a night stick several times, as he made his way to his new home, the state penitentiary, according to several eye witness reports. PITA arrived on scene, and was outraged by the incident, declaring war on the man. The United States government quickly rose the terror alert level to red, and President Bush later commented "The quick brown fox jumped over the.. uh... damn I forgot it again" confusing the press, and consequently creating havoc on TV stations world wide.

      Details developing.

    4. Re:I got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I thought it was
      People with NO concept of thE food Chain

      Oh...TA

    5. Re:I got it! by Callitrax · · Score: 3, Funny

      It is PETA which stands for People for Ethical Treatment of Animals.

      And here I thought it was People Eating Tasty Animals

  8. How about 2^26? by Eunuch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Binary milestones are for nerds. They are what matters.

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  9. Hmmm... by Stanistani · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suspect that a few of the responses to this campaign will have the hapless promoters throwing their hands in front of their eyes, whimpering, "I really didn't need to see that..."

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    You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
  10. Thanks for the /.ing by scovetta · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can now download Firefox at a blazing 6.7kbps.

    And it looks like every /.er is downloading Firefox just to make the counter go up.

    As if this wasn't expected.

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    Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
  11. Re:Counter by uberdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    I opened up two copies of the spreadfirefox counter page, and the counts differed. That is odd.

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    "I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
  12. Needs to be 50 times better than that! by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Need to fly around the world naked by flapping arms with a sparkler hanging out his butt.

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    Engineering is the art of compromise.
  13. Re:Dyslexia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nope.

  14. Spectacular way to spread Firefox? by PDAllen · · Score: 2, Funny

    DL source... check
    Add a couple of bits of code from Bagle and Netsky... check
    Compiles... check

    Crack the server, upload the new release...

    Welcome to 100 million Firefoxes overnight!

  15. Samson for the win by FeetOfStinky · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even Old Testament folks were getting down with Firefox: "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing Corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives." "Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire." (Judges 15:1-6 KJV)

  16. a-la-Golden-Palace by Locarius · · Score: 2, Funny
    Do what this guy did:

    Step 1: Paint SPREADFIREFOX.com on chest

    Step 2: Wear baby-blue tutu under clothes

    Step 3: Attend Olympic sporting event

    Step 4: Remove clothes

    Step 5: Dive from Olympic diving board

    Step 6: uh... profit?

  17. Flamebait! by EnsilZah · · Score: 3, Funny

    Getting a bunch of PETA members somewhere by setting a bunch of foxes on fire?

    That's just plain flamebait!

  18. Re:obligatory by DigitalHammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    This broadcast was brought to you by Fox News.

    (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.)

  19. Gonna get arrested by herting · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thinking I may write "firefox" on my penis to represent small and sleek, versus IE on my bloated stomache and run through the streets of London naked. That's a promotional tool thats sure to satisfy

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