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- i440, on 10/12/2007, -9/+52Let's download it more. Competition is always good.
If you're still using IE, switch to Firefox. You won't be disappointed, promise!
http://www.mozilla.com/
Your first stop should the extensions page, where you can find all sorts of additional functionality:
http://addons.mozilla.org/
I recommend:
- Adblock
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater
- Restart Tabbed
- and DownThemAll if you need a robust download manager. - kevinnn, on 10/12/2007, -12/+46w00t
- womfalcs7, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36Awesome! I remember when it was near 30 million not too long ago. In less than two years, Firefox has managed to gain immense popularity. Great feat.
- masterc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26I would recommend Adblock Plus instead of Adblock because Adblock's developing stopped in 2004. :-)
- brownspank, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Firefox gets you laid. :)
- Batiu-Drami, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20They don't count updates in the download count, as it just gets patches. They do however count it multiple times if you download the full version off the website multiple times.
- Pokelicious, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23I think its pretty obvious what's up with that site.
- cmilki, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23The true Congrats go to the Community for making this possible.
- userundefine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18@ georgemoore13
And while you've downloaded it 50 times from their servers, I've downloaded it 50 times from my Linux distribution's servers, which isn't counted.
It all balances out. - mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Spellcheck is already there. In firefox 2.0
- obijohn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16In the past 2 years I've probably downloaded Firefox 100 times. So really, does that count as 100 downloads in their stats?
- georgemoore13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13While I agree that Firefox's popularity and growth are amazing, I think I account for 50 of these (as I would guess others do too). I download firefiox on any computer I have to use for more than 30 minutes. It pains me to use IE.
- ottodv, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16An amazing achievement!
- ALIENDUDE5300, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12It doesn't include any betas/alphas.
- donciavas, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14foxes are quick, so they are ok on the internet. they don't jam the tubes... just like betting on horse races...
- omnidatacenter, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15For the love of god.... think about the tubes.
- holdon222, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13they have stressed that it doesn't show the number of users per say. also, that bug was fixed long ago. this isn't as a result of the bug.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I have downloaded Firefox several times too. Everytime I talk a friend into using it instead of IE, I download it on their pc. Also some people download FF to a jumpdrive and then install it that way for additional computers.
- benthere, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Almost 1 petabyte:
http://www.google.com/search?q=200000000+*+5+MB
(about 1000x what my hosting provides per month for $10) - Blazeix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I make applications for a tech support company, and just about a week ago the head tech said, "hey, have you heard of this new firefox browser?"
I wanted to stab my eyes out with an ice pick. He was a techie, had all the latest gadgets too... I guess it's good that more people are hearing about this though. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15Only a billion left until Firefox takes over the Internet!! W000000t
- OperatorNo9, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10What we need is a page that explains what the number of Firefox downloads means so that we don't have to have the same discussion every time they hit a new big number. We can just link to said page instead having this every time.
Digger1: "That number doesn't mean anything. I've downloaded it 1000 times. But, I'm just one user."
Digger2: "Yeah, well, I've downloaded it one time and installed it on a 1000 machines."
Digger1: "Yeah, well, there are more people like me than there are like you."
Digger3: "Dude, you downloaded Firefox 1000 times and it only resulted in one user? I'm afraid I'm going to have to question the efficacy of your download skills." - trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Just imagine all the people downloading nightly builds. It would probably be past a billion by now if it counted that.
- Niz1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Strange, IE7 just crashed when i first clicked on this article.
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17I agree competition is good:
"Opera 9 has already seen a significant uptake of users, with 700,000 downloads on the first day of release. Overall, Opera 9, including the mobile Mini version, has seen roughly 25 million downloads since its release in June."
Competion is doing pretty good :-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12It beats the living crap out of Microsoft's Internut Exploiter.
It never locks up. The one add on that I wish it had was spelling checker add on like IESpell. - mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10@etnu
"Blocking ads is a surefire way to ensure the death of most internet services."
Most people don't bother blocking ads unless they're too annoying.
How many of you blocked ads here on digg? I didn't cause i barely notice them. Now imagine digg had large animated floating popup advertising porn or IM smilies or useNext, what would you do?
Ad companies just have to stop using giant annoying flash ads and they won't get blocked. Simple as that. - ashembers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6And to celebrate, they're giving it away for FREE!! Sw33t!!
- geekoid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Yeah, can't have a celebration without a good pessimist/cynic, eh?
- crbaker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Go flock yourself. :-)
- cam18, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Tried not being a spamming ***** yet?
- ChicagoDS, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Linux sitting on top of windows. Go figure :)
Firefox has made my Internet experience wonderful again.
Due to I.E. I had to reformat my hard drive.
Firefox and a good spy-ware program is a excellent Internet condom.
Stay away from I.E. Windows system registry is totally vulnerable with I.E. - Nezzari, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14To be fair, I have downloaded Firefox 50 times myself...Also, wasn't there a counter bug a while ago?
- benthere, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7OTOH, large businesses that use it would download it just a few times and install it on hundreds or thousands of computers.
- sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Then again it doesnt count downloads off of hundreds of mirrors and those with decent size networks who dont redownload for each computer.
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10wow, now thats alot of bandwidth
- SimonDonkers, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11While I by no means want to say Firefox isn't getting more popular but lately they seem to give more frequent updates. As we are now at the 6th version of 1.5.0.5 and the automated downloader makes sure everyone gets it the number off users is way lower then this.
Nevertheless, still a very nice achievement, a poll at my programming oriented website even showed that 57% of the respondents uses Firefox.
Keep up the good work. - MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just fixed my neighbor's computer, hid IE and put Firefox and all necessary plugins for her -- she was very excited because she had heard of it and her friends liked it. This is good news in that she's not at all a techie and had heard of Firefox and it had good press too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4why would i want google ads?
- jim99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I bet this is higher than IE, considering most people who use IE do so because it comes with thier computer.
- gsmithEIDW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Firefox is all well and good for home users, power users and admins own use. But for system administrators trying to manage Firefox on a Windows domain, it's far from as integrated a solution as IE is. Ok IE6 has loads of flaws and limitations. But in a corporate enviroment where you have IE locked down, firewalls, web filtering and antivirus/anti-spyware solutions in place, Firefox is actually more of a pain to administer and globally change settings etc when there are hundreds of pc's involved.
Yes there are some active directory addons you can get such as "Wetdog" but they're far from perfect and not nearly as robust or as full featured as IE's native inclusions in Active Directory.
Some of us are huge Firefox fans but are finding that in certain implementations it's extra hard work to implement it. Whilst some of us have made the effort to overcome that barrier and have users that appreciate the difference, I can certainly understand why som many organisations simply don't bother. - timjbart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2pedant
- Randy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+16It's Firefox, not FireFox.
- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh crap.
- geekoid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Add my 164 installs in the last 6 months for friends and clients, from a copy I keep (and update) on my USB flash drive!
- briang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4you've used "zillions" and "accurate" in the same sentence!
- plueken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Anybody know when Firefox will finish development on the gtk-cairo integration so that it will render form widgets matching the GTK+ theme for *nix machines (rather than looking like Win95)?
That's what I'm heavily looking forward to next, whenever it may happen, so that I don't have to download and manually edit Firefox resource images just to make it not hideous on *nix. - DaviDK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html
Firefox 2 - late Q2/early Q3 2006 Final Release
I've tested the alpha a few months ago, it has some nice new cool features.
Some optional extensions seem to have been integrated... now you can organize the search bar, save sessions, and on the fly spell check - just like word does. - MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3After having supported Firefox for a while, I couldn't do it with version 1.5 anymore. It constantly crashes, it lags when clicking links, it's a memory hogger... hello Opera.
- Byteraver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Well I'm using Firefox for ages now and still it's the best thing around.
For those rare moments you should need IE ( like online banking...), download the IE tab plugin from the addons website so you never have to leave Firefox again. Works like a charm...;) -
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