Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours

linuxci writes "Firefox 2.0 has had over two million downloads in 24 hours with a peak rate of over 30 downloads a second. This means Firefox is well on track to beat IE7's three million in four days. Of course stats don't equal users but it's interesting to see that the demand for Firefox is currently outstripping IE."

Comments

And what about RC3 Downloads?

[Darwin_Frog]

After all, I never downloaded the final release since I already had RC3 and nothing changed.

Re:And what about RC3 Downloads?

[Chosen Reject]

For that matter what about Ubuntu 6.10 which comes with it preinstalled?

Re:And what about RC3 Downloads?

[BeeBeard]

And what about all the Slashdot readers who swamped Mozilla's mirrors a day in advance and downloaded the thing? ;)

- An RC3 user

The one feature that makes it worth the download..

[scuba_steve_1]

...an integrated spell checker for all HTML text form fields.

Plus, it's a relatively trim download, so cheers to the dev team for that.

Re:The one feature that makes it worth the downloa

[LiquidCoooled]

Best part about the spell checker is (at least in my English/United kingdom dictionary) it thinks Firefox is misspelt.
It gives options for firebox and Fire fox.

There are other oddities in this dictionary which will no doubt be ironed out.

Re:Well, how many UNINSTALLED IT?

[Donniedarkness]

Really? FF2 seems to be the fastest yet (on all of my machines, one of which is uber, and some of which are old as dirt). This may be different on the Linux version, though...

Re:Well, how many UNINSTALLED IT?

[linuxci]

In an ideal world then all extension authors would test their extensions with the release candidates and have things good to go by release time, but most of these people who write extensions have jobs so may not have the time to update their extensions.

I would really like to see the Mozilla Foundation employing the authors of the most popular extensions and make them official so that they'd be ready by every release.

For some people extensions are the biggest selling point of Firefox.

Re:Annoyances

[Anonymous Coward]

To get your backspace working again:
browser.backspace_action = 0

To get your accesskeys working "alt", instead of annoying "ctrl+alt":
ui.key.generalAccessKey = 18

Re:Most people don't know IE7 is out

[GIL_Dude]

It's funny about who is changing what here. I generally keep IE as the default browser because I get email with links for some admin tasks (approvals) that only work in IE. My main browser is FF, but I want these links to work right so IE stays the "default". However, installing FF 2.0 changed the default to FF without bothering to ask first! That was not appreciated at all. I repeated the install on another machine and it did the same. I did not see anywhere where it asked "would you like to make Firefox your default browser (recommended)". LAME. I like the browser, but that is reprehensible behavior.

Re:It still isn't production quality software!

[oGMo]

Sure enough Firefox 2.0 does *NOT* handle memory allocation failures.

[...]

Upon restarting the same session one will find that Firefox only needs 900MB. That is a memory leak and/or heap fragmentation problem.

First off, almost nothing gracefully handles memory allocation failure. Particularly anything in C/C++. You need memory to complete an operation, and if you don't get it, you're screwed. There's no way to reliably unwind the stack and reverse the state of the program to continue without performing that operation.

Second, I believe you are suggesting they implement a defragmenting memory manager. If you'd care write one, particularly one that drops in place of their current one, I'm sure they'd be happy to accept. Good luck.

The real complaint here is "Firefox uses a lot of memory". That may be so, but then it has a pretty high compatibility for rendering all the silly XML and Javascript and crap the web requires these days. If you want a slim (but not so compatible) browser, you should check out dillo or something.