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Firefox Breaks 50,000,000 Barrier

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-up-get-on-up dept.

MrDrBob writes "Today at 16:59 GMT (8:58 AM PST) Mozilla Firefox received its 50,000,000th download. To celebrate, SpreadFirefox.com has created a special page, where you can watch the downloads continue to climb in real time. Three cheers for Firefox! May it go on swiftly to 100,000,000!"

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  1. Rumor has it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That if they reach 100 million downloads in the next four days, Blake Ross will fly to the moon under his own power.

    1. Re:Rumor has it by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
      That if they reach 100 million downloads in the next four days, Blake Ross will fly to the moon under his own power.

      I think Bill Gates would volunteer to fly him there.

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    2. Re:Rumor has it by Man+in+Spandex · · Score: 2, Funny

      [McBain Voice] Up and at them.

    3. Re:Rumor has it by Zemplar · · Score: 3, Funny

      " That if they reach 100 million downloads in the next four days, Blake Ross will fly to the moon under his own power."

      He should fly to mars instead and give the rover a push.

    4. Re:Rumor has it by carpe_noctem · · Score: 2, Funny

      Looks like their slogan "Where do you want to go today?" could take on a whole new meaning!

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    5. Re:Rumor has it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Up and atom!

  2. Time zones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Today at 16:59 GMT (8:58 AM PST) ..."

    *blink*

    1. Re:Time zones by nharmon · · Score: 4, Funny

      You didn't know GMT and PST were off 8 hours and 1 second?

    2. Re:Time zones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      If I shave my nipples, will you pick my nose for me?

  3. Who's going to swim? by elcid73 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seems you need a swimmer now to cross some large body of water

    1. Re:Who's going to swim? by Eccles · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, this is a community project. We all need to swim a lap. (Which, face it, is more exercise than most slashdotters get...)

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  4. Swim... by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean Stallman will swim across the Atlantic 50 times?

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    1. Re:Swim... by jb.hl.com · · Score: 1, Funny

      5 dollars says he drowns.

      Another 5 hopes he drowns. ;)

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    2. Re:Swim... by clem · · Score: 5, Funny

      That would constitute a bath, so I'm afraid it's out of the question.

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    3. Re:Swim... by Aeron65432 · · Score: 2, Funny

      He should do it. The less he can screw around with the GPL (making corporations pay, licensing documents that use GPL fonts) the better GNU/GPL is. ;D

  5. Now by jb.hl.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Swim that fucking ocean, bitch!

    Erm, wrong browser. Whoops.

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  6. The 50 millionth person by truthsearch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't we send the person who did that download some flowers or balloons or something? Imagine being that guy, walking around town, "Yeah, that 50 millionth was me!" and everyone responding "Yeah, sure...". We should make it like the reward you get for being the 1,000th person to buy something in a new supermarket.

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  7. Celebrate--giving their history.... by FerretFrottage · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have expected them to change the name after 50,000,000 downloads.

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  8. slashdotted already (article text) by h4ter · · Score: 5, Funny

    50,037,604
    50,037,605
    50,037,606
    50,037,607
    50,037,608
    50,037,609
    50,037,610
    50,037,611
    50,037,612
    50,037,613
    50,037,614

  9. Re:Small nit to pick... by poningru · · Score: 3, Funny

    perhaps its loading from your cache? no that cant be it. That makes too much sense

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  10. Re:Small nit to pick... by pegr · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's labeled "Actual Number" (implying that's a real download number).

    Guess they got me on a technicality. That's an "actual number" alright!

  11. Ed Mcmahon is on his way to the dude's house by Uptown+Joe · · Score: 0, Funny

    with a big fake check and a camera crew right now.

  12. At this rate they will reach it in 1.5 years by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Funny

    At this rate (about 2 downloads a second) they should reach 100,000,000 downloads by August 2006 or a little less than a year and a half from now.
    Go go firefox!

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  13. We have identified this user ? by thrill12 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uh oh, Firefox has instantaneously tracked down the user that clicked for the 50th million download ?

    Along with coin #1 in the series, we are also awarding a very special prize--the biggest we've ever given out--to the lucky SpreadFirefox affiliate who delivered the golden click that went with the 50 millionth download. We have identified this person and will withhold her information until she accepts the prize. Check back early next week!

    I wonder how they did it...
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    Return-path: 50thmillionfirefox@mpaa.com
    Received: from catchthepirate.mpaa.com
    Received: from mail.mpaa.com
    Received: from some.isp.com

    Subject: Firefox 50th million download

    Hi, we are from spreadfirefox.com and have identified the 50th million firefox downloader as coming from ip UUU.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.
    Please give us his/her name and address so we can contact him/her to give them this prize !

    Thank you in advance,

    Firefox team

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  14. easy by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 2, Funny
    estimate the percentage of windows boxes that have downloaded firefox, say X% multiply X% times the number of downloads X%*N, now here comes the tricky part. Estimate the % of types of windows boxes. This will tell you approximately how many times a user has installed due to crashes. in other words, lets say we get 60% * N. which would be 30,000,000 on windows. ok lets say 30% of those are Windows XP, it's pretty stable so lets say a factor of 1.8 (due to unpatched boxen, bootlegs, etc). so we get 9,000,000/1.8 = 5,000,000 unique windows xp downloads.

    on Windows ME the factor would probably be around 15, so saying 50% windows ME boxes - we would get 30,000,000*0.5/15 = 1,000,000 unique downloads.

    So accounting for 0.6(windows)*(0.5 ME + 0.3 XP) = 48% of downloads we actually only have 6,000,000 unique downloads due to instability problems with windows.

  15. Re:Small nit to pick... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    It's 2005 now, the term is AJAX!

  16. Meanwhile, at Opera... by ReadParse · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... CEO Jon S. von Tetzchne continues to prepare to drown a ridiculous and cold death in the north Atlantic Ocean.

    RP