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- TH3W1R3D, on 06/19/2008, -4/+198Actually they got 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
- JimmyLin, on 06/19/2008, -26/+175Firefox FTW!
- Ploosheeta, on 06/19/2008, -6/+142This week's firefox stories:
http://digg.com/apple/Firefox_3_and_Safari_4_in_br ...
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/200 ...
http://digg.com/software/Mozilla_Announces_Release ...
http://digg.com/software/Third_Firefox_3_Release_C ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Field_Guide_to_Firefox ...
http://digg.com/software/Web_Browsers_Speed_Testin ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Don_t_forget_to_be_part_ ...
http://digg.com/microsoft/IE8_development_Microsof ...
http://digg.com/software/15_Browser_Add_Ons_No_One ...
http://digg.com/software/Mozilla_prepares_for_Fire ...
http://digg.com/software/The_History_of_Firefox_1_ ...
http://digg.com/software/Why_You_Should_Download_F ...
http://digg.com/software/Power_User_s_Guide_to_Fir ...
http://digg.com/software/Firefox_Download_counter
http://digg.com/software/Firefox_3_exceeds_a_milli ...
http://digg.com/software/Forbes_Why_Firefox_Matter ...
http://digg.com/software/The_cake_is_a_lie_IE_team ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Mozilla_Hits_Its_Firefox ...
http://digg.com/tech_news/Firefox_3_launch_a_succe ... - iguanapunk, on 06/19/2008, -5/+95Firefox? Damn it! I downloaded Internet Explorer
- fatdefacto, on 06/19/2008, -3/+67Unlike those guys over at microsoft who, once they release a new version of something, need to spend the next few years getting that build stable.
- KCherman, on 06/19/2008, -3/+63Firefox 3 has two important upgrades:
It more deftly handles lots of tabs. There is no real slowdown, and loading lots of tabs from a cold start is impressively fast.
The new predictive address bar is, to say the least, a substantial upgrade. Type in anything you know about a site you ever remember visiting, and it will likely pop up as an option in the new address bar (also called The Awesome Bar, for good reason). - smellytim, on 06/19/2008, -5/+615+1=8
- Steinr, on 06/19/2008, -18/+73it's like 10+ million now!
- Slym, on 06/19/2008, -7/+46I agree. How dare they make attempts at improving their own software!
I hereby create FAFI (Federation Against Firefox Improvements), for the good of the universe. - inactive, on 06/19/2008, -3/+42As a Linux noob on Mandriva I wasn't sure when the Repo's would be updated to include FF3, so rather than wait I went to the Mozilla site and downloaded the tar.gz file directly, then spent a happy half hour learning how to install this weird and wonderful new file type myself, including where to put it in the root directory and how to update the menu that was still pointing to FFv2. Everything went swimmingly.
Firefox as teacher - yay! - Druckles, on 06/19/2008, -5/+32The dramatic increase in market-shares can only be a boon for web developers out there. Here's hoping IE6 will really start to hit the grave.
- StiGUP, on 06/19/2008, -6/+33mission accomplished.
- Skahara, on 06/19/2008, -5/+312011? Is it the Linux Desktop year?
- brownspank, on 06/19/2008, -1/+26Are you seriously telling me that this trumps iPhone coverage?
- Fozefy, on 06/19/2008, -3/+27Using firefox 3 right now and its working great. FF2 used to give me random slowdowns while I had multiple tabs open. No such problems with FF3, it also seems slightly faster when loading a single page. Mozilla FTW!
- willy1234x1, on 06/19/2008, -2/+24It's always been the "Smart Location Bar" but it got the nickname Awesome bar because it's awesome.
- skymint, on 06/19/2008, -6/+27I love the new Firefox
- Lorddias, on 06/19/2008, -13/+34Firefox 3 is definitely ftw but within a few months we will hear news of a Firefox 4, just like we did with 2.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -1/+20about 1 million of those was me trying to help out by downloading it on every computer i got my hands on
- JPong01, on 06/19/2008, -1/+20Because 7 ate 9.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -7/+23In 2011, FF4 will have 85% of the market share. Just wait and see.
- alpha19, on 06/19/2008, -0/+16@weemundo: And no surprise you failed at ever englishs class.
- Seth024, on 06/19/2008, -1/+16FF3 has been downloaded more than the number of inhabitants in Belgium.
- Lihtsaltjobu, on 06/19/2008, -3/+18Actually its Firefox 3.1 ^^,
- guntario, on 06/19/2008, -6/+20You just used it but disguised it with quotes.
- goflyers, on 06/19/2008, -1/+15In the year 2000 All dogs will be issued photo IDs, finally sparing them the humiliation of sniffing each other's butts, but will continue to do so just for the hell of it. In the year two thousand.
- Steinr, on 06/19/2008, -5/+19why is this getting dugg down? I don't get it, I would think the more the better. the official counter is at 10.904.310 as of this writing.
http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/ - rothman857, on 06/19/2008, -2/+15why doesn't north Korea have any downloads?
- bob12321, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12Is that the mathifacation thing I have dang on heard so much about?
- smacksaw, on 06/19/2008, -4/+16I think that if Microsoft released statistics, their service packs and bug fixes probably obliterate that record on a daily basis. Not that it's a good thing...
- SniperZero, on 06/19/2008, -1/+13Now come on own up how many people told there grandmas to download this and told them it was to protect there computer....
- haydesigner, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12Eight is the new nine.
Errr... wait a second... - donkevin, on 06/19/2008, -2/+12There aren't enough internet addresses in the world to trump that.
- veriix, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10So you want microsoft to give the user no internet browser because you want them to use firefox? I swear some of you fanboys are insane.
- Smogtdi, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10I got it to replace Konqueror on Kubuntu 8.04 running in the 200$ walmart gPC. My god, Firefox3 is faster than Konqueror on this slow VIA processor. I have yet to try the new Opera.
anyway, congratulation to Mozzila for the world record and this fantastic product that will set the pace for browser efficiency - atreusk, on 06/19/2008, -3/+11North Korea has 0 downloads..
- d4ni, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10I can see how this can be joyful, somewhat, but do not mention this if you are promoting UNIX to relatives / friends, they generally do not exactly welcome having to spend half an hour on installing an application. Not to mention Gentoo who builds everything from source and needs like 2 hours to install Firefox, lol. Granted, the PC that runs Gentoo is a PC shared among my housemates which does not have the most advanced hardware. I still hope someone shows me (by third party review) the substantial speed increase this brings to Gentoo vs, lets say Ubuntu (1 minute to dl + install)
- kamisama, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9Look around, you're on a tech news site, what do you expect people to be interested in? How about you get a life yourself and stop wasting your time posting useless comments.
- d4ni, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9With the current version being IE7 and IE8 is on its way, both being pushed to consumers through Windows Update, that will happen with or without Firefox dude ;)
- chump, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8language fail
- maisteri, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8I think Lithuania is the winner. Over 10% of the population now has Firefox 3.
- MickJT, on 06/19/2008, -2/+10Actually it's not called the Awesome Bar anymore, it's official name is the Smart Location Bar.
- gfunk84, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8How would that help? If a user doesn't have the capacity to download an alternative browser now, they sure as hell aren't going to be able to do so with no browser initially available.
- Ridikul, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7www.getfirefox.com
- TheKeithD, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7I'm sure tons of people download a piece of software with no intent to install it.
- 42Vindictive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7I see someone has read 1984.
- sexybobo, on 06/19/2008, -1/+7The record is for manually downloaded software package. Updates don't count neither does anything downloaded through automatic updates.
So if more than 8 million people go to microsoft.com and download internet explorer7 in one day. - ubercow13, on 06/19/2008, -0/+6Much faster rendering pages for me.
- d4ni, on 06/19/2008, -0/+6There is no objective reason to change back to the old url bar, since the Awesomebar keeps its functionality (matching URLs) and improves it (matching page title and some other page specific information). If you start typing a url that you have visited before it will still be the top match so I don't really see why you would want to revert. The URLbar had to "learn" (I don't really call it learn, it simply looks in your history) your sites as well, he can't read your mind to autocomplete an URL. Would be nice though ;)
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