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Firefox Downloads Reach 75 Million

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-out-mcdonalds dept.

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."

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  1. Diversity and competition is the Important Thing by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a Good Thing. Not because everyone has to use Firefox instead of IE/Opera/Safari/whatever, but because this forces authors to create more standard compliant sites which work on multiple platforms.

    Good stuff.

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    .: Max Romantschuk :: http://max.romantschuk.fi/
  2. relevance by R.D.Olivaw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the relevance of the number of downloads? Someone might download it 4 times to install it at his 4 PC an another might download it once and install it on his company's 200 stations.

  3. The competition isn't coming. by Ckwop · · Score: 5, Informative

    And guess what, Firefox is going to keep growing! Why? Because IE7 is a rubbish. Before you mod this flamebait, let me explain why. Here is a screenshot of IE7 beta. Examine it closely. Here are my issue with it:

    1. Where the fuck is the refresh button? After ten minutes you work out it's the little button next to the right of the URL entry bit.
    2. Why is the menu Below the tabs. I find this inconsistent and confusing. Worst of all, there's no way to put it in it's proper position.
    3. Have Microsoft dropped it's entire design team, the tabs look simply awful. That little grey bit to the right of the tabs allows you to create a new tab by clicking on it. That's fairly cool, but holy shit it just looks wrong.
    4. The home icon on the left hand side of the screen is in that default position, unexpanded, where did my Favourites go or everything else go?
    5. If this is it, what took so freaking long?

    Seriously, this looks like it was designed by an amateur software development team. This is meant to be the Firefox killer? Firefox is showing that a monopoly doesn't guarentee you a browser monopoly. Is IE7 going to stop the rot? I doubt it very much. Firefox looks and feels better. Hats off to the Firefox team.

    Simon.

  4. Re:Can Firefox be marketed? by BlueLightning · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, there is the Mozilla ActiveX project. You can embed the Mozilla ActiveX control into any application to add built-in browsing functionality, just like you can with the IE one (shdocvw).

  5. Stupid Firefox fanboy! by Winckle · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  6. Re:It's a big number. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    The number is big, and still increasing.


    Well, I for one would be really surprised if it started declining.