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Firefox Hits 80,000,000 Downloads

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-bits-and-bytes dept.

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. Another fr1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That confirms that slaytanic is gay

  2. Yellow Snow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes!

  3. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But you are not

  4. Sorry, it has to be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Firefox is a fucking unstable bloated slow piece of shit, and I don't understand what the hype is about. Opera is far better deserving, and even that is infested with spyware that tracks your surfing habits. Only thing going for them is they are both better than IE.

    Of course, I am sure to be banned again after yet another post that doesn't conform to Slashdot's groupthink enforcement system.

  5. Ok, that is enough. by elgee · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about a post from Cmdr Burrito or Cmdr Enchilada? I am sick of tacos.

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Offtopic and all that. Bring Zonk back.

  6. Re:Obvious question by Eternauta3k · · Score: -1, Troll

    I work in a major statistics company, which was employed by Mozilla to track these downloads. I can tell you repeated downloads don't count since, similarly to XP activation, Firefox sends us a code generated according to the computer's hardware, which identifies each download. If the same computer downloads twice, it only ammounts to other statistics (i.e. whether people keep the installer or how many times they reinstall)

    --
    Yeah. Would you choose a neurosurgeon who pokes around people's brains in his spare time? I wouldn't.
  7. Re:And so what...? by ricotest · · Score: 0, Troll

    Add the Linux/BSD distribution values and we're probably still talking 75M.