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Firefox Downloads Reach 75 Million
WindozeSux writes "Today Mozilla Firefox has reached its 75 millionth download. The Mozilla staff find this a morale booster since recent security vulnerabilities have slightly lowered the browser's growth rate. 'We're beefing up the management on the project. The project is still very healthy. We're seeing continued corporate interest and have a lot of large organizations that want to do deployments,' said Chris Hoffman."
Don't worry.
With a huge corporation doing everything they can to support Firefox, how can it fail?
The day MS changes its tactics I may start to worry.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
To gather statistics the Mozilla FOundation should include a small program with Firefox.
:p
This would monitor what browser you are using on your system, and would not collect any personal information to be sent back to the foundation.
This software could be required to make the browser work, just liek the stuff that is required for software you have paid for.
Don't forget some silly EULA to go with it too.
I'm trying to look at your screenshot, but IE6 doesn't even say there's a picture there, what the fuck is png, everyone knows pictures are .jpg!
Well, I for one would be really surprised if it started declining.
Welcome our new Open-Source, Not-for-Profit Overlords....
Congradulations, Firefox Team.
Don't you mean.. BIZZARO!
Am I the only one that notices the difference between the IE7 'home' button and the one from FF? Examine it closely, the only 'real' differences are the makeshift chimney and the absence of windows. I - for one - wouldn't trust a home with no windows and a chimney. This is especially disturbing for the elderly!
In conclusion: IE7 makes you go bald and infertile. Your wife *will* leave you and your cat will most likely vomit on your keyboard. (can I have a cookie now?)
great job firefox team ... thanks to you 2005 is not like 1984 ...
where did my sig go? where's my sig at?
The Firefox team should just use the Windows Genuine Advantage© Program to validate users, allowing one download per licensed machine. That way, only Javascript hackers will be able to fudge the download numbers. Simple. I should be a marketing exec.
-William Brendel
Thanks, because I was really worried! I can rest easy now.
Yeah, because around these parts, you need to choose your words carefully when criticizing Microsoft.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
I suppose that if there is no God when I die and that my belief in Him was for naught, that I can at least take satisfaction in how I lived my life trying to do my best to be patient and kind to other people and generally doing my best to live rightly.
Same here, if there really is a god and it decides me to condemn me to eternal torture for not having believed in its existence then I'll be able to take satisfaction in how I lived my life trying to do my best to be patient and kind to other people and generally doing my best to live rightly.
To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ~ h2g2
#!/bin/sh
. 6&os=osx&lang=en-US' > /dev/null;
while true; do
curl -L 'http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.0
done
Safest? I don't know about that. It's certainly the most comfortable to surf with, though. And it doesn't seem to go into convulsions at the sight of Java on my system- which is more than I can say for Firefox. They're pretty much equal in most aspects. But the question we must ask ourselves is why are we bothering with these newfangled, "next gen" browsers when we have a perfectly functional IE6 available right now? We might like the tabbed browsing, and added security, but with Microsoft putting such a herculean effort into patching the holes in IE as soon as they appear, it's not quite as insecure as most make it out to be. Popup blockers can be downloaded for free. It's all that most people want- your average joe won't be fussing about it lacking tabbed browsing or not supporting Foxytunes or the like. Firefox is unnecessary for most people. As is Opera.
In related news: IE reaches 75 million security patches.
How else am I going to get uploader credits?
I'm getting irritated by these pantywaists why say we need web browsers. Whatever happened to telnetting to port 80?
It's been a long time.
Firefox! Totally whips the llama's^H^H^H^HBill's ass!