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Firefox Hits 80,000,000 Downloads
asa writes "It's been nine months since the release of Firefox 1.0 and with tens of millions of users we most certainly are taking back the web. Today our Firefox web browser hit the 80,000,000 downloads mark. You can see the live counter over at SpreadFirefox.com."
I just upgraded to Opera 8.02 (usually use Firefox as my browser, but wanted to see what was new in Opera). Load /. to see the stories, and guess what was on top? w00t.
New Jersey, NJ - Alberto Chumpout, a former McDonald's employee now living in his parents' basement says he's exhausted after generating 80 million downloads.
"I'll be frank," he said, "next time I choose to artificially increase browser download ratings, I'll choose Lynx."
When asked if he had slept during this incredible marathon of downloading, Chumpout croaked "Can you help me? All I see is red foxes. My dad said I should stop using the computer. Mom didn't bother me after I disembowelled and ate dad."
Microsoft is said to be interested in hiring Chumpout for their upcoming IE7 campaign. "Download Internet Explorer 7 or Chumpout will Chump OUT On You" is said to be the slogan, winning out over "Download IE7 and win a chance to have lunch with Steve Ballmer", which insiders said was rejected because they didn't want to scare the consumer too much.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
They all demand IE because "they support it" (i.e. they bill you a shitload to "fix" spyware, and if you use firefox AND finally get something, they won't touch it, heh, their financial loss either way, use firefox and help send their jobs to the trashcan, not india :) besides, maybe if everyone dumped microshit, we'd finally have IT jobs where we come up with NEW things instead of fixing the M$ trojan horse known as Windows).
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
When Firefox hits the 100m mark, it may be something half-worth of a note
I didn't know firefoxes could walk that far...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Firefox reaches 82,500,000 downloads. Only another 2,500,000 to go before the big one!
Why OpalCalc is the best Windows calc
the counter counting the number of times Slashdot reported how the Firefox counter again reached a large number with many zeros hit 1,000 today.
That's almost as many downloads as Windows XP Pro!
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Maybe they'll get a CD-launching gun by then.
I love firefox, but there's something negative associated with the word 'spread' that I can't quite put my finger on.
You can spread herpies, you can spread something tasty on your toast in the morning, but I'd leave "spreading" software applications to Bonzy Interactive Inc. or whatever the fuck they're called these days.
And will be discussed a dozen times over and over again because slashdot editors insist in publishing every single download milestone firefox reaches.
To be fair, Slashdot editors take a break from telling us about Firefox milestones every once in a while to give us the news that someone at Google just farted.
That is to say, you have no readers.
I need to get something out of the way before I begin. I must say that I shall do my utmost to convince the government to clamp down hard on Firefox's excuses. Let's review the errors in Firefox's statements in order. First, the ability to artistically arrange words in an amusing manner does not qualify someone to be the leading social voice of a country.
Let us postulate that Firefox doesn't realize just how tenuous its grasp of reality actually is. In that case, it's easy enough to hate Firefox any day of the week on general principles. But now I'll tell you about some very specific things that Firefox is up to, things that ought to make a real Firefox-hater out of you. First off, it keeps saying that it is beyond reproach. Isn't that claim getting a little shopworn? I mean, if you don't think that the only morally sound solution is to resolve a number of lingering problems, then think again. I welcome Firefox's comments. However, Firefox needs to realize that I have reason to believe that it is about to send children to die as martyrs for causes that it is unwilling to die for itself. I pray that I'm wrong, of course, because the outcome could be devastating. Nevertheless, the indications are there that Firefox spouts the same bile in everything it writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at hand. The issue it's excited about this week is Comstockism, which says to me that honest people will admit that it is a very noisome little organization. Concerned people are not afraid to break the neck of Firefox's policy of teetotalism once and for all. And sensible people know that if we contradict Firefox, we are labelled loquacious lummoxes. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms. In closing this letter, let me point out that I would be remiss if I didn't remind you that Firefox's insanity has reached record levels.
are we supposed to know who Liz is?
Personally, I wouldn't randomly kick out 5% of the people walking in, either.
People who would rather kick out 5% of the people than kick 1 person in every 20 are exactly the kind of people who would use Internet Explorer.
Wait... what?
void*x=(*((void*(*)())&(x=(void*)0xfdeb58)))();
Repeat every ten million downloads.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Funny just as I read that reply I had my penis in my hand wanking to a windowed video of some girl from http://www.borderbangers.com/
The Communist browsers have been known to block advertising, denying American companies advertising revenue, and open pages in 'tabs', freeing up computer resources and thus destroying global hardware sales. This menace must be stopped.
I heard today that Ben Goodger took a dump. Later Tim Rowley scratched his nutsack. Is this /. or Sheep for Firefox group?
There are many browsers out there, unless Mozilla foundation starts paying for all this advertising, I think there should be a ban on Firefox articles.
I could be wrong, but I was under the impression they took breaks FROM posting dupes by posting firefox download milestones...
You mean you don't know Liz? Man... you're missing out...
First posting isn't trolling. It's...first posting.
He who denied it, supplied it.
Man... he reads /. and he's suggesting that he may have some kind of relationship with a woman. Isn't that an achievement in itself? Or maybe Liz is his mom.
...while eating gourmet tofu cuisine made by the Google corporate Über chef and installing Firefox on a hand built PC with a radical case mod, running the latest download of Ubanto optimized for playing MMORPGs?
Dupe!! Dupe!!!
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
...someone who had a big pipe wanted to advance Firefox's position and set a script to download it over and over and over?
Not to burst your bubble, but I installed it on Liz's comp 7x.