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Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads

Posted by timothy on from the prisoner-failed-to-provide-enough-rope dept.

nk497 writes with this selection from PC Pro magazine: "Microsoft's failure to include the EU browser ballot in Windows 7 SP1 cost Mozilla as many as 9 million Firefox downloads, the organisation's head of business affairs revealed. Harvey Anderson said daily downloads of Firefox fell by 63% to a low of 20,000 before the ballot was reinstated, and after the fix, downloads jumped by 150% to 50,000 a day. Over the 18 months the ballot was missing, that adds up to six to nine million downloads — although it's tough to tell if the difference has more to do with Chrome's success or the lack of advertising on Windows systems. The EU is currently investigating the 'glitch,' and Microsoft faces a massive fine for failing to include the screen, which offers download details for different browsers to European Windows users, as part of measures ordered by the EU to balance IE's dominance." Reader Dupple points to coverage at ZDnet, too.

10 of 90 comments (clear)

  1. Holy shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's three days ago!

    1. Re:Holy shit! by an00bis · · Score: 3, Funny

      yo, dawg, I herd you like old news, so I put old news in your old news so you can reminisce while you deja vu

  2. Super Duper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/10/31/178256/windows-browser-ballot-glitch-cost-firefox-6-9-million-downloads

    1. Re:Super Duper by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

      You have to give timothy a break. It's obvious that he can't read, and has simply been trained to click a button for food.

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    2. Re:Super Duper by crazyjj · · Score: 3, Funny

      Tomorrow's headline: "Mozilla Claims Slashdot Dupe Cost Them 2 Billion Downloads."

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  3. Dupe Dupeington by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, we know. Soulskill already posted this story.

    Christ timothy, are you really that incompetent?

  4. Sounds familiar by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reader Bogtha points to coverage at Slashdot, too.

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  5. More things change, more they stay the same by bittmann · · Score: 3, Informative
    timothy is in fine form

    Same submitter, even!

  6. Timothy must be sad by captain_dope_pants · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dupe submissions could easily be avoided if Timothy was happy - causing his brain to produce a level of gamma waves - specifically those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory.

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  7. Not sure the need to spread lies by tuppe666 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not necessarily Microsoft that had people switching. Fire Firefox's ever growing memory footprint, and frequent update cycle that broke extensions are main reasons people stopped downloading FF.

    Wow. What a load of nonsense, Firefox has a tiny footprint stop spreading this lie. As for the frequent update cycle, that may be an enterprise issue, but why would it be for a home user. I stopped looking at extensions breaking a long time ago. I think you would have a hard lime listing one popular addon that is not working under firefox 16.

    Again http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-chrome-20-firefox-13-opera-12,3228.html Chrome does win these tests, but not on lies, but by being a great browser.