Firefox Reaches 200,000,000 Downloads
That's a lot of pressing F5 on the download page
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Mozilla is celebrating a very important milestone this week; the 200
millionth download of their open source web browser, Firefox. This news
comes on the heels of the announcement that Firefox had recently passed 15% of
the US market. Firefox, a branch of the main Mozilla browser, which has
its roots in the old Netscape product line is mounting a serious challenge to
the long-standing king-of-the-hill in the browser market space, Microsoft. Already it has 39% of the market in Germany, and 24% in Australia.
200 Million downloads since the 1.0 launch is an impressive number.
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 1, 2006 10:56 PM
| 200 Million downloads since the 1.0 launch is an impressive number. |
If that includes people updating to newer vers then if I'm anything like vaguely average then that number is more like 40 or 50 Million.
Similar order of magnitude... [one less] but not so impressive...
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 1, 2006 11:29 PM
(plus where is a link to download?)
Thanks
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 2, 2006 8:49 AM
Same 10 people clicking the download button 20 million times...
I'll not switch until they learn a lesson in consistancy.
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 2, 2006 11:21 AM
GreatSilverWyrm, Opera is better... on a cellphone. :/
Reply #10 Wednesday, August 2, 2006 4:23 PM
The key thing is that a person uses a browser and the browser does what the person wants it to. For compatibility sake with my school I use Internet Explorer 7 as Firefox starts to choke on some of the pages. I use Firefox over Flock when I have to download some Microsoft components as Firefox has the WGA Validator Plugin. I use Flock now as my main browser when I don't require a browser to the face the issues above.
Also, I got my complete non-tech savvy mother to use Opera Browser as it is easier for who to browse the internet and she likes using tabs. Plus it was easy to show how to adjust her bookmarks and other little tips, now she is browsing like a pro with Opera.
The lesson is...a personal computer is personal, use what you like.
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 2, 2006 5:32 PM
Reply #12 Thursday, August 3, 2006 1:04 PM
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Reply #1 Tuesday, August 1, 2006 5:19 PM