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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."

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  1. In Other News by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. How many office IT guys let you use FF? by DaedalusHKX · · Score: 2, Funny

    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).

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  3. Re:And so what...? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    When Firefox hits the 100m mark, it may be something half-worth of a note

    I didn't know firefoxes could walk that far...

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  4. This just in... by Twinbee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox reaches 82,500,000 downloads. Only another 2,500,000 to go before the big one!

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  5. Wow by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's almost as many downloads as Windows XP Pro!

  6. Spread firefox by helmetnerd · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Obvious question by mr_gerbik · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:I've downloaded it 12 times. by JoeBar · · Score: 5, Funny

    are we supposed to know who Liz is?

  9. Re:Firefox Usage about 5% by xYoni69x · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  10. Re:Obvious question by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... news that someone at Google just farted...

    ...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?

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  11. Re:This is a little off topic... by TooncesTheCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    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/

  12. Spread Internet Explorer by Psychor · · Score: 2, Funny
    Help stop the Open Source (Communist) browsers from taking away market share from hard working corporations. Visit Spread Internet Explorer now, before it's too late!

    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.

  13. WHO CARES by bwave · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  14. Re:Obvious question by shaitand · · Score: 2, Funny

    I could be wrong, but I was under the impression they took breaks FROM posting dupes by posting firefox download milestones...

  15. Re:I've downloaded it 12 times. by Sygnus · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean you don't know Liz? Man... you're missing out...

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  16. Re:I've downloaded it 12 times. by McFadden · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  17. Re:Obvious question by dimator · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...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!!!

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  18. What if... by JohnPerkins · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...someone who had a big pipe wanted to advance Firefox's position and set a script to download it over and over and over?

  19. Re:I've downloaded it 12 times. by publius_jr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to burst your bubble, but I installed it on Liz's comp 7x.