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Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads
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!"
Joking aside, is this just 1.0+ downloads, or all downloads ever?
Going back to school for entry-level jobs?
Just 1.0+ downloads.
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
I guess it's sort of spectacular that you use goto statements in your bash scripts.
e .html
This site will teach you how to use for and while loops: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/bash-tut
But shouldn't it be 50 mil / 4 = 12.5 mil because almost all users automatically updated from 1.0.0.0 to .1, .2 and then .3?
We're not counting those users who updated via our application update mechanism.
- A
Also, the numbers could just as well be skewed in the opposite direction, since some people might only have 'switched' when their distribution was updated. Perhaps a small number for sure, but definitely a realistic possiblity.
Cheers!
Interesting there there is 8.00 and 8.0. BTW I think Opera still appends 'Opera' to the user-agent when set to identify as IE or Firefox/Mozilla.
I know it's feeding a troll, but here's some information:
The calculations are from bouncer. That means clicks from the webpage, or grabs of that URI. Getting files off the FTP is not counted at all towards the goal. Thenceforth, all your script would do is waste bandwidth.
For context, click Parent.
I just checked it out. Here is what Opera uses as the user agent:
"Identify as opera": Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
"Identify as MSIE 6": Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.0
Thats neat, I thought it would have not advertised itself as Opera at all.
This is answer to your question:
Slashdot comment #12352325
No, they don't count updates from FF as downloads in spreadfirefox.com counter.
user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu This server is going down for shutdown NOW!
Not quite. It is a real counter that synchronizes with the actual number every 60 seconds. In the interim, it increases by a constantly adjusting rate that's usually pretty close to correct. See http://www.infocraft.com/projects/ffcounter/
I was merely pointing out example. If you go to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ and grab the latest-release, it's not counted. You can't get the file off the www.mozilla.org http, either. Looks like I'll have to go further into this.
0 .3 &os=win&lang=en-US
s =w in&lang=en-US fails. It does not download the product. If download. were an alias for www., shouldn't it work?
:)
When you click the "Download Firefox" link, you are sent here:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.
Please note download (not www) is taking this, and a script is activated to pick a mirror. This script, Bouncer, picks a server and sends you there, and counts a download. That's how (i believe) it is counted. I have word from Asa that downloads from the FTP (and ftp over http) which weren't initiated through the webpage/link, are not counted. However you don't have to believe me on that, as the original question I asked was in regards to nightlies, so it's still possible I'm wrong.
If you go to download.mozilla.org and notice it redirects to www.mozilla.org, and feel like you should point that out to pretend you have found the secret (that download. is merely an alias for www.), I have something for you, too.
http://www.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.0.3&o
Conclusion: The grand-something-parent's script would not work as written, or nearly as written.
For context, click Parent.
The default setting in Opera is to pretend to be MSIE6.0
What's 'Schmozilla' anyway?
l lowbrick.oz/
m l
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Seems a bit of a puzzle, have a look at
http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2004/12/wizard.ye
or
http://www.cleverhack.com/blog/archives/000887.ht
Whoever's doing this has obviously been around for a while, since the second link is from 2003
Real men use while loops and pipe wget to /dev/null
No. Just straight DLs, not the Update feature. So my downloads of 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 weren't counted, just my FTP of 1.0.1, for example.
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]