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Firefox Tops 100 Million Downloads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shop-smart-shop-f-mart dept.

webslash writes "Mozilla's Firefox web browser crossed the 100 million downloads milestone today. Webmasters are adding Firefox download counters on websites to keep track of the downloads in real time. Firefox celebrated 50 million downloads just 6 months back and with the release of Firefox 1.5 Beta 2. Additionally the Firefox 2/3 roadmap also looks promising."

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  1. Google News/. by sloths · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does this have to do with Google?

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  2. Firefox 2/3 by tehshen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox two thirds? Since when did it slip down five sixths of a version?

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  3. Is this is coincidence? by Jords · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's my birthday today!

  4. Re:I gave Firefox a chance by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny
    As long as we're dropping anecdotes, I never close Firefox on my P4/2.4 with 1GB of memory and never see any excessive swapping under Linux.

    With a 2.4 GHz Athlon 64, 2 GB of DDR400, and two 7200 RPM 8 MB cache drives in RAID 0

    You were just waiting for a chance to slip that into the conversation, weren't you?

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  5. dumb joke, but then again, this is /. by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had heard that three Brazilian copies have been downloaded!

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  6. No... by Marc2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..it counts as 8 downloads. I'm praying you're not a C programmer.

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  7. Re:I gave Firefox a chance by ianmassey · · Score: 4, Funny

    if you're so anti-firefox, why does your "CoMmAnD CeNTeR" have a firefox desktop image?

    http://tomchu.com/images/computers/commandcenterde sktop.jpg

    poser.

  8. Re:Some misc. Browser Percentage Data - GO FF! by Peeptophe · · Score: 1, Funny

    "...really sucks when you can do something cool in HTML/CSS (example :hover) and IE doesn't support it...

    Yes, :hover...thank goodness something finally came along to replace the much missed <blink> tag. Put that together with <marquee> and you can finally rebuild that GeoCities site you missed so much.

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  9. Re:Some misc. Browser Percentage Data - GO FF! by geminidomino · · Score: 3, Funny

    It will never happen. See above: "Smart people Don't use IE."

    So when /.'s results come in with a 96% IE score, the slashdot image will be ruined. The geeks will stop coming because it will be confirmed that they're surrounded by lusers. The lusers will stop coming because the geeks aren't here to troll anymore. Ad impressions will plummet! Funding will cease! Servers will fall into disrepair! Dogs and cats will live together! Mass Hysteria!

  10. Re:Some misc. Browser Percentage Data - GO FF! by neko9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    smart people use Opera :)

    man, then by using exclusively Opera from version 5.0 i'm SOOO smart... basically i'm genius now :D