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- DDDavinnn, on 06/19/2008, -14/+389***** THING ROCKS!
- drimsun, on 06/18/2008, -3/+280Firefox 3 is totally kick-ass in every aspect! GMail and other Web Apps are now blazing fast, memory usage is much lower, design is slick and all my extensions are already working =)
- xdvx, on 06/18/2008, -12/+253Go go FireFox!!!
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -4/+223I was one of them!! (:
They have amazing servers. 8 million in 24 hours??? Madness. - Planets, on 06/19/2008, -4/+167Madness...? THIS -- Gah, nevermind.
- chrisinsocalif, on 06/19/2008, -0/+141Doesn't FLASH have an auto-update feature? Maybe its a record for voluntary downloads and not automated ones.
- ElBeh, on 06/19/2008, -4/+119Go go gadget AdBlock Plus!
- ccaazz, on 06/18/2008, -23/+127what kind of fools would use ie nowdays anyway... people who still use ie should be banned from using computers, to save them from their own stupidity.
- Utopist, on 06/18/2008, -12/+112They dident even count the first hour becouse of the servers being down. http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/06/17/firefox-3- ...
I've read Adobe gets 25 million downloads on a day when they release new version of Flash. I wonder how long the record holds... - bpeacock22, on 06/19/2008, -0/+93From another article:
The network at its peak served 17,000 downloads per minute, or 283 per second, and had sustained download rates in excess of 4,000 a minute... - rkzda, on 06/19/2008, -2/+93The record is for direct voluntary downloads. Not the update feature through the browser.
- nebben, on 06/19/2008, -2/+82about:robots , heh
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -2/+81the only time I use IE is when I download FireFox
- btschul, on 06/19/2008, -1/+78(@) ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+62You can get your Firefox Download Day certificate here:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/cer ... - kleash, on 06/19/2008, -2/+59It now exceeded 10 million downloads.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord - jezzball, on 06/19/2008, -6/+60proud to say that i'm one of those 8 million.
go firefox! - 0x0000ff, on 06/19/2008, -2/+45Dude 77MB is a hell of a lot better than the 500 - 800MB FF2 would sometimes use
- zdiggler, on 06/19/2008, -2/+4077MB is nothing! go buy some memory!
- polalion, on 06/19/2008, -1/+39It's actually "Great success".
"Huge success" is more of a GlaDOS quote. =D - h0dges, on 06/19/2008, -4/+40I asked my housemate whether she downloaded the new firefox, and she said "it hasn't asked me to..."
lol, women - Puppetfunk, on 06/19/2008, -4/+40True, and if you don't auto-update it you can't do ***** on the internet because Flash won't work.
- thecheatah, on 06/19/2008, -2/+38umm.. people who dont know any better?
- VipeNess, on 06/19/2008, -1/+37Congrats Mozilla and thanks for the best browser!
- mattvogt, on 06/18/2008, -0/+34Agreed. Ajax sites and web apps are where this thing really shines.
- artofwar420, on 06/19/2008, -0/+32OH MY GAWD! Clicking on a Digg story with more than 100 comments doesn't temporarily freeze Firefox!
- mopro, on 06/19/2008, -0/+32"please do not press this button again"
love it. - SSUK, on 06/19/2008, -1/+30mem2, I disagree, Flash is a rich, vector based graphics engine and powerful client-side application module which can achieve very elegant website designs which aren't intrusive for the end user. It's capability to seamlessly stream a whole range of file formats including music files (MP3, WAV), image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF) and it's ability to stream Flash video (FLV) files has helped revolutionise websites, because of Flash's ease of use for both developer and end-user alike.
(I'll take my job now, Adobe.) - explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+28Enjoy18 is so ethical that he doesn't vote for himself even what that isn't an option.
- 0x0000ff, on 06/19/2008, -1/+28IETab for firefox. Set the website that needs IE to load in an IE tab. That way you can use a real web browser and have seamless integration for sites that want you to use a ***** one.
- diggerpleez, on 06/19/2008, -1/+27Not counting those of us that just pull it from the repos of our operating systems!
- Mark03, on 06/19/2008, -1/+27There are still services that require IE such as netflix's watch now videos.
- d0onut, on 06/19/2008, -2/+28Obligatory XKCD.
http://xkcd.com/198/ - Justice101, on 06/19/2008, -0/+22hate it when that happens...
- kenplaysviola, on 06/19/2008, -3/+24Sometimes you have to think on a more massive level rather than yourself. Coming from a systems admin perspective, IE is nicely integrated with Windows and its group policies. For example, I can force users' homepage to be a specific webpage, or prevent them from changing icons/toolbars, etc... Anything that can be customized in IE can be forced or prevented with group policies. So no, lets not ban these computers from the internet because of people's "stupidity".
I do believe there was a group who successfully added Firefox group policies into Windows. That would be nice to have when you're managing hundreds of computers, particularly public/kiosk computers that you don't want people messing around with the browser.
Having said that, I still personally prefer Firefox over IE and I encourage my users at my work to use Firefox. UNFORTUNATELY at my work, there are some internal apps that only work with IE, but they are slowly changing that. So for the time being, we still need to use IE. - maninalift, on 06/19/2008, -0/+20flash for games and pretty applications for viewing photos yes but complete flash websites suck. If you are a saddo like me who spends a lot of time on the web, you want pages to behave in a predictable way (such as being able to open a link in a new tab). Plain HTML does that, well written AJAX does that flash usually does not.
- kajoob, on 06/19/2008, -0/+20I'd like to thank the 1 guy in Guinea-bissau that downloaded firefox3 for making this day possible.
- xino, on 06/19/2008, -0/+19When I got here, you had a +0 and -0 for your comment. How does that even happen. Every time I make a comment, I instantly get a +1 which is from me.
- guardi, on 06/19/2008, -6/+25I wonder what's the number of downloads per-fanboy.
- darkciti2, on 06/19/2008, -0/+19And they got free Cake!!!
- MechanicalZack, on 06/19/2008, -6/+25*High Fives All Around*
We're in the world record book. =D - Snakedal337, on 06/19/2008, -0/+18Whos their hosting through? Crazy pipes coated with drano!
- dontera, on 06/19/2008, -0/+18Its not about rendering, its about Netflix being forced to use some form of DRM to show the cideos, with Windows Media Player being the most convenient.. and IE being the most reliable user of that player.
- stretch611, on 06/19/2008, -1/+18I was 2 downloads. One Linux; One windows.
However, they probably only got that high thanks to the "Colbert Bump." :) - duckyinc, on 06/19/2008, -3/+20over 9000
- flxfxp, on 06/19/2008, -1/+17WE WONT DO IT ON LIVE.COM
- jamauss, on 06/19/2008, -4/+20Wow, that's almost as many downloads as I get spam in my inbox each day.
- willy1234x1, on 06/19/2008, -4/+18Which make no sense because anything IE can render Firefox can render even better.
- KaiUno, on 06/19/2008, -2/+15You must be a VIP over at the power company.
- dudefaceguyman, on 06/19/2008, -9/+22IE: 8 Million downloads? This is madness!
Mozilla: MADNESS?! THIS - IS - FIREFOX THREEEEEEEEE!!!!! *Kicks the IE team all the way back to Microsoft HQ to go fix their goddamn browser already* -
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