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- t4stringer, on 06/15/2009, -6/+82I don't think this is big news or anything considering firefox is "automatically" updated to this when you start up firefox after it has been released.
- GoldEdition, on 06/15/2009, -4/+67Now this is something to be proud of! And Apple celebrates 11.000.000 downloads of Safari 4 in the first 3 days... LOL
- uptwolait, on 06/15/2009, -4/+46150,000,001.
- blackhole37, on 06/15/2009, -5/+41With the autoupdate and download feature now, that seems like an easily slanted statistic.
- 1ofMany, on 06/15/2009, -1/+26Mine updated automatically (obviously), so this is basically an estimate of how many people are currently using the browser rather than how many people who have gone out of their way to actively download it because they asked for it 'by name'.
I only mention this because we were giving Apple flack the other day when they were bragging about the number Safari downloads which turned out to be driven by automatic updates to the OS.
That said, I love my Firefox and had it NOT updated automatically I would have pursued the upgrade on my own. - Frazzlet, on 06/15/2009, -4/+21Firefox automatically downloads the update so in a way its not that shocking.
- div2n, on 06/15/2009, -3/+19How is it NOT news that there is ample evidence that Firefox has a possible confirmed user base of over 150 million?
- BalancingAct, on 06/15/2009, -5/+19There's a clue as to why MS is offering to give 8 free meals for every download of IE8. And here's me thinking that MS were just being generous in giving away their "superior" browser, even though people will want to download it anyway because it's so good. Haha
- yookoala, on 06/15/2009, -2/+16I'm not one of them now.
Since I'm using Firefox 3.5 at my home :) - thinkharderest, on 06/15/2009, -1/+15By downloading Firefox you are helping. Microsoft wouldn't be giving away meals if so many people were not using Firefox. Besides, Microsoft is only donating up to 1 million which will only buy 800,000 meals. Still sounds like a lot, but the amount of downloads will be fulfilled the second most windows users automatic updates kick in. Basically they are just saying that they are donating it for IE downloads but they probably already were going to donate the money and just wanted people to download IE.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -1/+13Until you run Firefox it won't auto-update. That means that 150,000,000 people USED Firefox in that 24 hour period. That's the important part. Keep in mind, Chrome, FF, Opera, etc don't have the luxury of being installed on new computers by default like IE does. So 150 million is a pretty impressive number, IMHO.
- KayinAngel, on 06/15/2009, -3/+13as yoyoyoyo pointed out above, 150 million is still a lot of downloads regardless of new user or existing user upgrades in 24 hours.
imagine if IE users updated with that rate. we'd stop having to worry about the ghosts of IE6. - deathlip, on 06/15/2009, -5/+15I WISH FIREFOX DONATED FOOD BECAUSE I WOULDN'T BE HUNGRY!!!!
- HonoredMule, on 06/15/2009, -1/+10I'm one of those crazy people who thinks "mainstream" has no bearing on "cool."
- BrianOl, on 06/15/2009, -0/+8Can you name said bugs? I have never had any sort of freezing with Firefox, maybe you have a faulty extension to blame.
- sandipc, on 06/15/2009, -1/+9if (writing-pseudocode?)
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killself(); - BxBoy, on 06/15/2009, -4/+11It's automatic downloads, but the fact that there's 149,999,999 other Firefox users is amazing. :)
- DarkBlueAnt, on 06/15/2009, -2/+9I love Firefox, but I hate the automatic downloads. Especially when I'm in a rush to look something up while I'm on the way out.
- woody1987, on 06/15/2009, -2/+8Thats not including the millions of linux users who rely on their package manager to download the latest releases.
- HonoredMule, on 06/15/2009, -2/+8It's news because it's basically proof that 150 million different installations of Firefox are being regularly used. While that doesn't translate 1-to-1 to users, it will be pretty close. So, there's nearly 150 million *highly regular and active* users of Firefox. It's not exactly the death of the Pope, but it IS news.
- Baryn, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6"Acid test blah blah blah. I have yet to find a compatability issue with any site I visit."
You ***** retard... Web designers are downgrading their sites for you. - flidge, on 06/15/2009, -3/+9is firefox too mainstream to still be cool or not, i forget?
- maloventevil, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5congratulations. i guess we can declare that all 1 users of suse downloaded it manually.
- MicrosoftBob, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5I don't care either way. I just know that Firefox is the best browser for *me*.
- Fleeek, on 06/15/2009, -4/+9I dont feel so big anymore.... 1 in a 150,000,000
- JammoBlammo, on 06/15/2009, -3/+8It's not like 150 million people rushed to their website on day one to download it. It was an automatic update. How is this even news?
- yoyoyoyo, on 06/15/2009, -6/+11whether is was a new user or an existing user updating what's the difference? it was downloaded 150,000,000 times. how can you dispute that?
- bokufala, on 06/15/2009, -4/+9Wow...Mozilla positively reports it's own software update release! Not news.
- wwwluckyro, on 06/15/2009, -3/+8Clearly Firefox has a bigger market share and everyone knows it. It also goes to show that Firefox's auto-update feature might be better.
11 mil is big for a company with a small market share, don't you think? - HonoredMule, on 06/15/2009, -0/+5I use it because of Weave (way better than xmarks, esp. when the server is local), Tab Mix Plus, Grab n' Drag, Firebug, Download Statusbar, Greasemonkey and Split Browser (browser panes).
All of those introduce features or usability improvements/configurability that don't exist on other platforms, natively or as plugins/extensions.
The only way another browser could steal Firefox's thunder within a decade would be to re-implement the Gecko engine so it could support all the existing Gecko-based extensions and steal all that existing potential...at which point it would just be a rip-off of Firefox, so what's the point? Just contribute/get involved with Mozilla instead. More realistically, other browsers independent extension platforms will slowly grow and draw developers, but not overtake Mozilla's critical mass and never offer a strong competitive advantage...not while Mozilla is still on the job improving their existing platform. - HonoredMule, on 06/15/2009, -2/+7"The only thing firefox has going for it is extensions"
That's like saying the only thing women have going for them is breasts, lips, legs, hair, eyes, ass, and vagina--without which, I admit, would make women pretty sub-par.
And yes, Chrome is the minute-man of human metaphors for browsers. It's also a stick figure. I don't mean to criticize Chrome as your choice of browser, only to point out that stick figures--even in large, independent numbers--can only do so much for a guy (sticking with the humanoid/potential sex appeal metaphor, of course). - dwalker, on 06/15/2009, -5/+10MS s getting desparate...
- BxBoy, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4you mean, "resume porn surfing." c'mon, you can be honest with us!
- RyanJones, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4Did anyone notice that this was done just to prove a point to the guys at Apple who boasted about their amazing download rate? Come on guys, they are making a point here to the Apply guys - automatic downloads aren't a good measure of anything.
- BrendanSheehan, on 06/15/2009, -2/+6Downloaded, or auto-updated?
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -3/+7Pissing off Apple is fun!
- HonoredMule, on 06/16/2009, -0/+3That's a real lousy reason to opt out of security updates. I use a ton of extensions and I've never had a single one break from any auto-updates. Mozilla is never going to push API breaks out with security fixes, and extension compatibility checks work in a way that by convention automatically assumes an extension compatible with x.x.x is also compatible with x.x.y for any y. There's really no need to worry about anything...unless you're NOT installing the security updates, in which case you're flirting with a much more worrisome hazard.
- marktastic, on 06/15/2009, -1/+4I use 3 computers so I count for 3 of those downloads
- dougbdl, on 06/15/2009, -6/+9I don't like Firefox nearly as much as i have in the past. Too many updates, getting very buggy. Freezes more than IE in my view.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -1/+4and the previous 24 hours was spent waiting for the last version of firefox to open so they could donwload the latest version.
- seroevo, on 06/15/2009, -3/+6This is only really worth noting if there was a significant increase in users between version 3.0.10 and 3.0.11. After all, if they had that many users now, would the previous version/update not boast similar numbers?
This sounds to me just like marketing. Safari touted 11 million so Firefox is only pointing this out to piss on Apple's fire. - petard, on 06/15/2009, -1/+4As the latest browsers have come out (IE8 and Chrome) I find that I only still use firefox because of adblock and xmarks. If Chrome had all of Firefox's extensions I would use that. One process per tab is really nice because when you have a lot of firefox tabs open it gets REALLY slow.
- oedenfield, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3I believe the point of the original blog post (not the one linked here, the one written by Asa) was that Apple's numbers are pointless. If we wanted big numbers.. how about these big numbers (150 million in 24 hours).
I would like to point to the original blog post:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2009/0 ... - sexybobo, on 06/15/2009, -1/+4It asks the first time you launch after a new update is released if you want to update or stay with current version. It does download it automatically though.
- aserer511, on 06/15/2009, -2/+5thats not hard to do when your updates are more or less automatic.
i closed out FF, opened it up to resume web surfing, and bam, update - LiquidSpark, on 06/15/2009, -2/+4They probably do. The problem is that 150M IE users is nothing compared to it's install base of over 1B.
- pedronym, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2I am currently working on a PC running Windows 7 (one of the betas) and have been running IE8 for a couple of months as a matter of fact. Still, I really don't see why anyone would use IE at this day and age.
Just think about this, with today's web standards being open and all, they still managed to hit a 21/100 on an official web developer fidelity test and you think there's nothing wrong with the development of this browser?
It's not that it's BAD, it's just not as good as the other four major alternatives. At least use Gecko or Webkit so that we can all see the same webpage consistently and not have to write a separate CSS just for IE :)
(I secretly still hold a grudge against Internet Explorer because of IE6 and the bag-o-hurt it gave me.) - inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2It's news because we are all waiting for Apple to say or do something! Until then, anything slightly "techie" is news.
- sexybobo, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2The 150million are PC and MAC only they don't calculate linux since they don't use the auto updater.
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