Firefox Beats Million-Download Deadline

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
With days to spare, the Mozilla Foundation beat its 10-day goal of 1 million Firefox downloads.
Released six days ago, the first preview release of the Firefox 1.0 Web browser passed the million-download mark early in its fifth day, according to the Mozilla Foundation. By Monday afternoon, the download number had swelled to 1.3 million. "Beaten would be an understatement," said Mozilla spokesman Bart Decrem when asked about the 10-day goal. "I think we're setting new records here in terms of new browser downloads, and it shows that people are ready for an alternative."
Congratulations Mozilla! -KF

Source: ZDNet
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  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited September 2004
    YAY for firefox
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    I've become a Firefox evangelist.

    IF YOU AREN'T USING MOZILLA FIREFOX...YOU'RE WRONG! :mean:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Tell me about it. I have a feeling that the spyware problem would be reduced by 1/3rd if people just started using Firefox.

    Although, I imagine it's only a matter of time before spyware authors start trying to exploit alternative browsers.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Leonardo wrote:

    IF YOU AREN'T USING MOZILLA FIREFOX...YOU'RE WRONG! :mean:


    IE>FireFox, kthxbye
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Meh.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Run, camman, run!
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    They flew through the 1 million mark and are already well on their way to the 2 million mark :D:D
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Run, camman, run!

    ;D;D

    I couldnt pass up a good browser thread when I saw it now could I
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    IE>FireFox, kthxbye
    If MS could/would get their security straigt with IE, I'd probably move back to it. Problem is, IE was designed to be all things to all people; just no way you can make such a monster secure. Apart from security, the only feature of Firefox I enjoy over IE is tabbed browsing.

    So, is Firefox more secure only because internet vandals aren't targeting it as they are IE? Fair question.

    BTW, I still use IE for Windows Updates. Firefox will not work for that.
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited September 2004
    Less people on firefox the less amount of spyware we get targeted at us :O

    LEAVE FIREFOX!
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    the last picture in that sig is priceless
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Can I install 1.0 FF straight over top of .9.3 or do I *have to* (whiny kid voice) uninstall it first?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    I installed on top. Nothing seems to be affected by it.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    I installed on top. Nothing seems to be affected by it.
    however, the new version of thunderbird doesn't seem to like being installed on top (on one of the machines I did it on at least, the other didn't mind)
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    What's the difference between Thunderbird and Firefox?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    My basic gripe with Firefox is that it STILL doesn't render code as well as IE, though it's getting much much better. Basically, the problems it has left is limited to CSS, but I visit a lot of CSS-heavy sites that Firefox doesn't like.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    Leonardo wrote:
    What's the difference between Thunderbird and Firefox?
    Thunderbird is the mozilla mail client, only reason I mentioned is that a lot of corps still use netscape based mail (like where I work) and the new version fixed a bunch of security holes. it also just happened to come out on the same day as the new versions of Mozilla and Firefox
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    My basic gripe with Firefox is that it STILL doesn't render code as well as IE, though it's getting much much better. Basically, the problems it has left is limited to CSS, but I visit a lot of CSS-heavy sites that Firefox doesn't like.
    Are you sure it's not that the sites are coded for IE's misinterpretations of CSS code?


    I recently saw an article saying that Firefox may have sliced up to a full percent of internet users away from IE in recent months.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited September 2004
    Will you name a few of these sites?

    I'm thinking along the lines of GeneralKeebler that it possibly isn't CSS giving FireFox problems but rather IE-specific code giving FireFox problems.
    Thrax wrote:
    My basic gripe with Firefox is that it STILL doesn't render code as well as IE, though it's getting much much better. Basically, the problems it has left is limited to CSS, but I visit a lot of CSS-heavy sites that Firefox doesn't like.
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited September 2004
    primesuspect wrote:

    Although, I imagine it's only a matter of time before spyware authors start trying to exploit alternative browsers.


    I recall that Mondi noted back in July that the Omegasearch variants had started to do some hijacks and added Favorites in Firefox, so they are starting to do exactly that. But the Mozilla based browsers should still be safer in terms of getting infected in the first place. Unless one gets infected via an e-mailed or P2P downloaded app, the lack of Active X in Mozilla should make it safer for most users.

    Dexter...
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    My basic gripe with Firefox is that it STILL doesn't render code as well as IE, though it's getting much much better. Basically, the problems it has left is limited to CSS, but I visit a lot of CSS-heavy sites that Firefox doesn't like.

    Same here.

    Matt: Considering it doesnt render SM correctly...I dont think its IE.
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited September 2004
    i'm suprised noone mentioned that it render text much faster than IE.... pictures it doesn't seem as fast on.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Marc, are you referring to the front page, forum, or both? I'm not noticing any problems myself anymore.

    Also, I may get a herring across the face for this from Shorty, but it's still possible that the CSS for either is based on a Microsoft-centric world. IE != the standards. To my knowledge, Mozilla is following the standards better than MS.

    (This is most-especially true when dealing with table widths, which I suspect accounts for the majority of 'errors' we're talking about)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2004
    At least it did with the old forum style. The small box with an arrow pointing to the right in the Last post column on the forum index. They were never aligned correctly with Firefox.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    I had similiar problems. Don't know if it was related - probably not, but yesterday I reinstalled my video card drivers and S-M renders better now with Firefox.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Mozilla and Firefox both have had bugs that relate to a couple things-- one is "float left" and was also video display dependent to a degree (some user had problems, not others, and fixing float left's to a position about 1-2 or 3-4 pixels to right of zero (variable by screen display res and display devices, 3-4 seems safe for almost ALL with that problem (and although I do as of just after I statrted to use 1.7.3 instead of 1.7.2 have a left margin post input box in quick post mode bar cursor, all the rest works better and Mozzie now word wraps right in the post input boxes which it did NOT before) left fixed for all, and Mozilla 1.7.3 and up now do this (It was mentioned as a nightly build fix and as a Mozilla 1.7.3 thing as a positioning thing problem fix, and in MozillaZine support forums for Mozilla) so FireFox might also. I would expect Mozilla 1.7.4 to be better in this respect also, when it comes out (AFAIK, as of a couple days ago it was in very early dev beta form as snapshot in dev area, have not tried it but devs were talkiing about another .01 version under thier belt unless folks found major bugs as of two-three days ago when I last checked the MozillaZine support forums and newsgroup archives). Note, a left margin zero pad in a table can do this also (some displays, no matter what you do, will not render such right, a pixel or two gets right shifted somehow, that can be CSS, speced in other things also (including table defs in HTML and XHTML code, though Float Left 0 bothers most all Mozilla derived browsers) some as well as an IE\FrontPage extension thing. S-M does look better in Mozilla 1.7.3 than it looked in 1.7.2 or 1.7 or 1.6+ or earlier. I have both 1.6 here and right now 1.7.3 and 1.7.3 renders S-M better than 1.7 or earlier on both XP and Linux Mandrake 10 Official (DLE edition). why, you might ask, do I have 1.6 at all??? JSP sites, it can use more Java JRE subversions than the 1.7 tree in my experience (and I have spent about 15 hours trying to figure out why and howto just for 1.7.3 much less the rest of the earlier 1.7 tree branch (and 1.7 DOES have an official dev tree branch unto itself)). Render fine details can be display details a lot, but I have not changed video display settings or devices at all, and this happens in XP and Linux with TWO DIFFERENT nvidia cards and Nvidia driver packs. Only change I made was a VERSION of Mozzie change on Linux.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    At least it did with the old forum style. The small box with an arrow pointing to the right in the Last post column on the forum index. They were never aligned correctly with Firefox.
    My guess is that vB fixed its code in the latest release.


    Straight Man, I thank you for your customary incomprehensible contribution to this thread.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Straightman = Ageek???? or just an indentical post style.... ?
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Camman wrote:
    Straightman = Ageek???? or just an indentical post style.... ?
    Yes, it is.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Wasn't he bannededededed?
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