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- Koray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+93Divide that number by zero, world explodes.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+95multiply that with Pi squared and you get the amount of ad revenue lost to AdBlock plugins.
- MF03, on 10/12/2007, -4/+61Divide that number by 27 and you get the number of individual downloads.
Divide that number by 52 and you get the number of downloads per household.
Divide that number by 1 and you get the same number. - growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -8/+48Thats awesome, congratulations to everyone who contributed to Firefox! I can't even remember what it was like using that other browser, uhh Internet Explorer I think it was called.
- ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39That's a lot of bandwidth.
- perrupa, on 10/12/2007, -9/+42"I for one, hate firefox. I REALLY don't care about a 100 things that distract me from what a browser really is for, browsing the internet. I got IE7 and it's all I need, and before you go all "but IE is a virus infected piece of trash!" on me, the only way to actually get these viruses is to browse websites that have the virus, which usually tend to be the ones you never go to anyway. Another reason I hate it is because practical everyone who uses it pretty much spams me to switch."
To talk about distractions is rather funny because I use firefox (with AdBlock) to eliminate ads which to me are the biggest distraction on the net. To me the added security is just a bonus. You use IE7 and you're still happy. Good for you, here's a cookie :)
Peace - dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -9/+38I know I'm responsible for at least 50 of those.
363636/546 = 666 :-/
(11+9+2+0+0+4)+(5+4+6)-(6+6+6) = 26+15-18 = 23 :-( - Lundy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+37I'd rather pay for an upgrade to my RAM than give up Firefox. (:
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -6/+29...or those that use a single installer across their network...
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26@ ThisIsSubir - Not a great start to your digg endeavors. But on the other hand... things can only improve.
- feralkid, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Very impressive when you keep in mind that the number of downloads doesn't include upgrades performed from the browser itself.
It also doesn't include all the people that apt-get/emerge/yum Firefox from their distro's repository. - pahoehoe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26"which makes a cute rate of : 363,636.3636..downloads/day."
What, a rational number that repeats itself? I haven't seen that before. Interesting. Proceed with the numerology thread.
BTW: I love Firefox. I'm definitely going to get freaky on the fox tonight. - markr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Luckily the user block feature works in IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23OK, naio21, we know you're anxious to redeem IE, but please STFU. Thank you.
- SSCrow, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Ok, Since Its been about a year since I've used opera. I decided to check in on it and see if they improved the layout.
Well, I am glad to see that it is more user friendly.
Opened up task Manager, and I am quite shocked that it is only using 18 meg of Ram. As opposed to Firefoxes 112 meg.
I might change it to my default Browser. - alteratti, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Wow, I've never heard that comment before outside of a Blendtec advertisement. That was really amazing how you took a phrase previously used to describe objects being put into a specific brand of blender and used it out of context to make a lighthearted jab towards the topic at hand.
- dr-steve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20"Revolutionary"???
Yes, Linux is "just" an operating system. A well done one, with a lot of brilliant contributors, a fixpoint of a storm of open source effort. But it *is* "just" an operating system. No great revolution in concept, perhaps packaging (for the price) at best.
Dual core *is* just a manufacturing technique. It does some things better, but there's no revolution. Yes, it is two CPUs with a single set of leads. Look at Thinking Machines for revolutionary thought, and see how much (well, little) of that has made it into dual core technology. Look at Seymour Cray's work at CDC (woah! SIMD in the 1960s!). Try the Burroughs 1700 series, with user-virtual microcode spaces allowing per-process instruction sets.
RISC was around long before RISC became big, although its perfection may be the closest to "revolutionary" on this list.
Does anyone notice the irony of the suggestion that massive CISC and RISC are both mentioned as revolutionary by the same author?
FireFox *is* just a browser. Highly extensible, but isn't its greatest claim its adherence to standards? (And is that also ironic, that the revolution is "being standard"?)
Curmudgeonly yours, and awaiting being dug down for not waving the [system of your choice] flag,
Steve - Underbyte, on 10/12/2007, -16/+30"Its only a web browser"
Yep, and so was mosaic.
and Linux is "Just" an operating system.
Dual core is "Just" another manufacturing technique.
RISC was "Just" a type of microprocessor architecture.
Never mind how revolutionary they are. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21Spoiler: Firefox is used by 80% of tech savvy people and non-morons. Stop crying little fanboy.
- spling, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17My god man. Who wants ALL THAT ***** in a browser? Seriously.. You use all that?
I use adblock, foxmarks, web dev toolbar, and greasemonkey... How can you stand so many addons? @_@ - dgritsko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15For every three comments on Digg, there's a user that doesn't know how to use the term "there's."
- lbmouse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16With a user name like "haxortheworld", I'd say he's using IE7 because that's all his parents let him install on the computer.
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It was actually me. I downloaded it 300,000,000 times. Well, it was a Monday, I was bored.
- se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10FF 2.0.1 = 5.7 MB
300 million x 5.7 MB = 1.7 billion MB (1,669,921 GB or 1,630 TB) give or take a few thousand. ;-) - dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12With a user name like "haxortheworld", I'd say if your using IE7, there is a very good chance you have spyware that you don't know about... I could be wrong, you may have picked you user name to poke fun at script kiddies, but I wouldn't put my money on it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Too bad I use Konqueror then huh? Presumptuous ass.
- electronicmaji, on 10/12/2007, -21/+29I stopped using firefox! Join the revolution. Before when using firefox it took up 150 mb of ram running flat and nearly 300 running with a couple pages open. It has memory leaks that can cause computers to lock up! I hold testament to this and ever since I have changed to Opera my computer has had no locks. Opera runs fresh at 30 mb of ram usage and 60 mb when several pages are open! Not only that but it has customization features firefox could never dream of and cool widgets and built in theme browsing! It is a cleaner, quicker, better browse. I installed Opera and I never looked back.
- greatkingrat85, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18It's Firefox, not FireFox.
- jinglee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13And how much of those are from Google affiliates?
- NoNameHere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Interesting number, but it has less than nothing to do with the number of users. I know that I personally have downloaded various FF versions eight times,
and distributed it to more than eight systems via flash drive. - SSCrow, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14Well played Electronic.
Opera has some features that blow my MIND! - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I suppose this is just downloads. Its FF, so divide by the number of point releases (1.2,1.2,1.3, etc) and not just the main ones. Then divide by 3 to get the number who may possibly still be using it.
Surely we know how many people there are surfing the web. We know what % use FF. That should give us a more realistic usage figure. - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I guess this will have to be updated now: http://static.flickr.com/2/3817784_fd1239fe53.jpg
- Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Firefox works fine for me. IE was always buggy, IMO.
Mostly I just don't like Microsoft as a company, so I'll avoid it when I can. - lostboy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Opera is an excellent browser and I think the real determining factor is how extension dependent you are, because I know that I for one need an awful lot of the extensions I use.
Firefox has terrible memory problems, however in the future they will be sorted (to what degree I don't know) with firefox 3. The devs have written a new garbage collection routine which should help immensely.
If they can crack the speed problem, firefox will be perfect in every way. I simply can't live without great extensions such as Firebug, Greasemonkey and Stylish. My all time fav though has to be autocopy. When Opera can do all that I'll make the switch. - sulf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Using web server logs as a reference is wrong. Which site we will look at, msn.com or kernel.org? disney.com or slashdot.org?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8This is good for Firefox users, good for Opera users, good for users of all alternative browsers. Increasing Firefox market share is pressurising website owners into supporting standards rather than just IE (apparently WalMart didn't hear that that was uncool now). Everybody, a firefox user or not, should be celebrating.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6The Mac OS X calculator says it's 363,636.9404 downloads/day.
- catfud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I like IE7 much better then Firefox becuase of the Favorites Center
and i dont wanna hear you can do that on firefox cuz i dont give a ***** unless its a clickable icon in the tabs bar that opens a little window
besides the fact that Opera is better then Firefox hands down - rip747, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5high quality resolution
http://www.wired.com/wired/images.html?issue=13.02&topic=firefox&img=3 - Mirag3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I think we've found the stupidest person on digg! :)
- pirotess, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Further proof that Microsoft isn't a monopoly.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12*I've* been using it since 1867.
- JorgeGT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Too bad some people still needs to make their huge websites compatible with that.
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Respect. - JimmyJohnJedi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Uh.... sweet. Uh..... yeah and stuff. Wee... let's make a Firefox birthday cake! It's a web browser that broweses the web the EXACT same damn way that 15 other browsers browse the web. You guys are pitiful. You can bury my comment now.... fanboyz.
- IbnDigg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Does anyone know how many users that is? And how this compares to downloads for IE7?
With 300 million downloads i'm thinking that makes it about 150 million users purely based on the principle that people downloaded ver 1.5 and then ver 2.0. - Septimus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think I must have downloaded it over 100 times during that time. Sure that goes for a lot of others in that sort of download range.
- cr3ative, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3But it says it in a VERY shiny fashion.
- frase, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6The figure might include multiple downloads by the same user, but I'll bet it doesn't include source code downloads. There's a lot of users (like me) who build Firefox themselves, and run that.
I'll also wager that there's a *crapload* of users who got their installation from unofficial sources. - michelspc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8@ Underbyte
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