Firefox reaches 18,000,000 downloads!

[digmen1]

What is a Forum Tag anyway ?

I am glad that IE is getting some opposition, we have to break Micro$oft's hold on things.

Once they get a market tied up, they sit on it and do nothing new !

Regards

PS

I'm using IE 6.00.

Is it easy to install Firefox and then go back to IE if one needs to ?


Digby

[nostalgia]

True enough.

As always, however, the end user is ultimately responsible for upgrading to the fixed version. The most serious flaw in any piece of software will always be a lazy or ignorant user.

Also very true!

[tesco]

What is a Forum Tag anyway ?

I am glad that IE is getting some opposition, we have to break Micro$oft's hold on things.

Once they get a market tied up, they sit on it and do nothing new !

Regards

PS

I'm using IE 6.00.

Is it easy to install Firefox and then go back to IE if one needs to ?


Digby

yes it's very easy to go back to IE after instlaling firefox. IE is still there while firefox is isntalled, and you can choose which is your default browser.


a forum tag is a tag for making a text bold, italic, a URL, an image, etc.
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[peat moss]

What is a Forum Tag anyway ?

I am glad that IE is getting some opposition, we have to break Micro$oft's hold on things.

Once they get a market tied up, they sit on it and do nothing new !

Regards

PS

I'm using IE 6.00.

Is it easy to install Firefox and then go back to IE if one needs to ?


Digby

Oh ya my wife likes IE , so I have both . You can import your bookmarks aswell . If you don't like FF just uninstall . Try it for a week you be the judge !

Edit: Themes are the ticket ! Some great tools , and you only download the ones you want. But I think Adblock is a keeper !

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/th...3a3a9e97384%7D

[Barbarossa]

Considering there are roughly 6 1/2 billion people in the world, 18 million isnt even 1%, hell it isnt even 1/2 of a percent, congratulations, assholes. IF it was more like 30%, or 50%, then we could get excited.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...n_pluggedin_dc


According to this story, Firefox is currently used by about 5% of internet users.

IE is used by about 90% of users, but that is a 5% drop in about 6 months.

I've found that only about 1% of sites have problems with Firefox, but that is probably due to sloppy website coding rather than anything wrong with the browser itself.

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Firefox Hits 20 Million Downloads

Firefox, the open-source browser which only went 1.0 in November, has this morning hit 20 million downloads. At the time of writing, the site's download counter reads "20,001,054" - it's currently averaging anything from 210,000 to 270,000 downloads every day.

Asa Dotzler, from the Mozilla Foundation, said: "In seventy six days, more than sixty three thousand of you have joined the effort to deliver Firefox 1.0 to more than twenty million thankful users - you all are simply amazing! You all have demonstrated that open source community can be powerful, committed, and capable of accomplishing once-unimaginable feats."

Figures show that 1.1 million people downloaded v1.0 on the day of its release. Download figures also rose to around 300,000 a day for the two days after an advert for the browser appeared in the New York Times. The download rate has remained fairly steady since the middle of November. v1.1 of Firefox is expected later this year.

[tesco]

it's growing fast!

[ftcnt]

gotta be careful with a lot of those surveys that guess what browsers people use. ive seen the numbers be as high as 10 percent according to some sources in terms of FF use.

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Firefox breaks 25 million downloads

On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone.