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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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  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?

  3. 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 biglig2 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. Weird... by EdZ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anyone find it odd that the spreadfirefox image galleries don't display properly in firefox (e.g. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=image/tid/42). Maybe 1600x1200 is just too much for the page? Who knows?

  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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    1. 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.

  8. Not wanting to be pessimist... by jawtheshark · · Score: 5, Insightful
    but, I alone, have been responsible for at least 20 different downloads? Why? I don't carry around my USB stick all the time and when I want to install it somewhere, I just re-download it. Also this can't be the downloads of a single release: it's the total downloads since version 1.0? If yes, how about the people that redownloaded just because a new version came out?

    Of course, often a download my indicate more than one install: at my parents, I downloaded the program once and installed it on all machines (4 in total)

    So, we cannot say much from download numbers about the spread of the program. We still have the risk that we geeks/nerds download it for people and those people stick to IE. Case in point: I'm a teacher and all my pupils use IE. Even though, I always tell them to use Firefox. Why? Don't ask me... I'm only doing this job since january.

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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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  10. Re:misleading? by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  11. Re:Firefox and the Slashdot set by winkydink · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's the whole list. IIRC, Opera can be configured to say it's either IE or FF, so their numbers are probably a little low.

    75.72% Mozilla
    22.50% Microsoft Internet Explorer
    0.22% Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
    0.13% Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U) [en]
    0.12% Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
    0.10% Opera/8.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
    0.09% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
    0.09% Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.0; U) [en]
    0.07% Googlebot-Image/1.0
    0.04% Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en)
    0.03% Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [nb]
    0.03% Opera/8.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
    0.03% Opera/7.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
    0.03% Schmozilla/v9.14 Platinum
    0.03% Mediapartners-Google/2.1

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