Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads

Samhain138 writes "It seems like Firefox has finally reached 10 million downloads, just a bit over a month after Firefox 1.0 was released. Congratulations!" My favorite extensions (not all of which worked when 1.0 first came out) are all working happily now, too; the latest nightly has been working flawlessly for me all of today.

Rollover

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome to counter rollover day on slashdot. Please run out to your cars and see if you might reach some important milestone on your odometer, it may be worth a story.

It's just funny to me...

[mat catastrophe]

how something that used to have updates every three to four months now causes people to wet their pants like this: "the latest nightly has been working flawlessly for me all of today."

I mean, don't you all have something serious to occupy your time with? Like Half-Life 2 patches? Or writing the walkthrough?

Or, something?

10 million enlightened folks

[coolsva]

We need to keep up with this momentum to make firefox the standard browser.

I also hope, the firefox/mozilla team does not rest on its laurels, and create new features and innovations which can be used as the basis for the next generation of web applications (the last ones were when there was a competetion of sorts between IE and NS)

IE IS DEAD!

[Anonymous Coward]

IE is dead! Netcraft confirmeth!

well the statistics are flawed

[Nadsat]

I downloaded 8 million of them myself. So the numbers perhaps are slightly misleading.

Re:New York Times Advertisement?

[ScriptMonkey]

I dunno. How many 'a's are there in 'anal-retentive'?

Re:I'm stuck on Bio Chem - Help me geeks!

[orangepeel]

Answer: The dog is on fire.

The real question is...

[elid]

...who got the 10 millionth download?

Whoops that was me

[Control-Z]

I've been trying to download it on a crappy dialup connection. Sorry, sorry.

Re:New York Times Advertisement?

[Daniel]

Two.

Re:New York Times Advertisement?

[AyeRoxor!]

Any who love knowledge want to be told when they are wrong; it is stupid to hate being corrected.

loves

should want

Stop Supporting IE

[miyako]

If you happen to care that people start using some browser other than IE, there is a simple thing that you can do that will help convince people to switch, stop supporting IE.
All of my friends who want free tech support from me know that if they use IE, they get no sympathy from me.
None of the websites that I develop personally are tested with IE, they get a small message saying "this site has not been tested with Internet Explorer, and may not work as expected. If you want to be sure you are getting the full experience from this site, please download an alternate web browser: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/".

Re:New York Times Advertisement?

[LadyLucky]

dunno. How many 'a's are there in 'anal-retentive'?

Dunno, but are you sure that's hyphenated?

Time to Set Higher Goals!

[Anonymous Coward]

When I first heard about the march to 10 million downloads, I did wonder if we should have set our goals a little higher. So maybe there should be march to 25 million?

Re:The real question is...

[Anonymous Coward]

Bill Gates?

What the failed to mention was...

[eeg3]

Only 20 people made up the 10 million downloads.

porn - why firefox will take market share

[rich42]

Firefox is generally better than IE for web surfing.

But where it really shines is for surfing porn (or so I'm told). None of those dang active-x controls, and it handles the pop-ups better.

don't forget why VHS won over Beta...

Re:Adblock

[Anonymous Coward]

I refuse to install Adblock on ethical grounds.

Re:Firefox still has one major issue

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the Energizer rabbit, you insensitive clod!
:)

Ah, that explains it.

[some guy I know]

People desperately try to cling on to what is familiar. [...] the populace will always follow the meager main path of doing things

That explains the re-election of both Clinton and Bush.