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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. Firefox blows. by LTSharpe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Use the Mozilla suite. I can't for the life of me understand why they quit promoting it and went to tiredsocks.

  2. Re:If you need another reason to download Firefox. by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    Let's do this: find me a company in an industry that does not engage in lobbying or employ political consultants and I'll stop buying (or taking) their products. How's that?

    Let's put it this way: I'd encourage all your car-driving friends to use the bus instead. Oh, wait. Bus companies also lobby. Walking then? Wait, municipal contractors that build the sidewalks also lobby. Hmmm. Floating? Wait, the environmentalists also lobby. Telecommuting? Hmmm. The cable and telecom companies also lobby. Stop using that computer! Computer companies lobby the US government! And that underwear? Fruit of The Loom lobbies as well!! OMFG, we're trapped!!!

    Dumb punk.

    Oh, and BTW, in the real world, Microsoft aligning with the religious right (assuming you can actually take it that far) would be a reason for a good chunk of americans to stick with Microsoft, not the other way around. It's precisely here that you did not need to use that stupid "example" of why Microsoft is even "more evil".

    Holy merciful $DEITY, you people are so retarded.

  3. you're the perfect Microsoft fanboy. by alizard · · Score: 0, Troll
    NORMAL corporations go to K Street, i.e. normal, respectable lobbying companies associated with political parties. That's where IBM and AT&T go.

    Ralph Reed is a go-to guy for the Religious Right.

    As for your "reason for a good chunk of americans to stick with Microsoft". . . congratulations, you wingnuts have your own, Divinely appointed OS. Too bad it's a piece of shit. But you should be comfortable with that.

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  4. if you don't like it here... by alizard · · Score: 0, Troll

    Go home to FreeRepublic.

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  5. Re:Weird... by factoryjoe · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, blame sloppy code from Drupal that made it extremely hard for me to theme. There was an attempt made at improving the galleries but I couldn't find coders to help me implement the solution. Yay open source!

  6. is this a riddle? by alizard · · Score: 1, Troll
    How many Windows in Redmond can *you* blue-screen ;)

    None, of course, they blue-screen themselves.

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