Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads

Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads 392

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:48AM from the thats-a-lot-of-firefoxen dept.

certron wrote to alert us that earlier this week, Mozilla passed the milestone of 25 million downloads. From the official site: "With a minimal set of tools--an affiliate system, a small donations fundraising system, blogs, galleries, forums, and the good old human larynx--you all are spreading Firefox to a quarter of a million people a day. More than 500,000 sites now link to Firefox according to Google--a fivefold increase from six months ago. What was just a small flame 100 days ago has since exploded into a phenomenal demonstration of the power of open source. Tens of thousands of devoted users and fans are a powerful and capable force of change. We have created a special commemorative image if you would like to mark this milestone on your own site." Reader asa also wrote to mention an interview with Bill Gates from this week where the mogul was asked directly what he thought of Firefox.

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Update! (Score:5, Funny)

by RobertTaylor ( 444958 ) writes: <roberttaylor1234 AT gmail DOT com> on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:50AM (#11698547) Homepage Journal

25,241,830 and counting to be precise ;)

Refresh button (Score:5, Funny)

by madaxe42 ( 690151 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:50AM (#11698548) Homepage

Damn, knew I'd pressed it a few times too many on getfirefox.com

Breaking downloads (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:50AM (#11698558)

Someone better file a bug. CRC errors are a pain in the butt.

Firefox *breaks* downloads? (Score:5, Funny)

by thiophene ( 216836 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:51AM (#11698566)

I read that the wrong way.

FireFox and IE have something in common... (Score:5, Funny)

by bigtallmofo ( 695287 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:53AM (#11698582)

"FireFox Breaks 25 Million Downloads"

and

"Internet Explorer Breaks 25 Million Computers"

Of course, this is just a low estimate on both.

Hahaha (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:53AM (#11698583)

GATES: No, in fact that's one thing I like about the Microsoft culture -- is that we wake up every day thinking about companies like Wang...
So what you're telling me is the first thing on his mind every morning is wang? Interesting.

Is Firefox buggy? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:56AM (#11698606)

Or why does it break 25 million downloads?

Someone please stop the download bots!! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @09:59AM (#11698630)

Ok, Firefox fans, you can stop the auto-download bots now you've made your point !!

IT WAS NEW (Score:2, Funny)

by BitwiseX ( 300405 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:06AM (#11698691)

When I was downloading Firefox this morning on my 2nd machine, I had this funny feeling in my gut. Now I know why.. I WAS the 25millionth person! Or maybe it was just gas....

This was too much... (Score:5, Funny)

by Obiwan Kenobi ( 32807 ) writes: <(evan) (at) (misterorange.com)> on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:07AM (#11698698) Homepage

To paraphrase into hilarity:

Bill Gates: "No, in fact that's one thing I like about the Microsoft culture -- is that we wake up every day thinking about ... Wang."

Pimpzilla (Score:4, Funny)

by RasendeRutje ( 829555 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:14AM (#11698749)

Firefox is great, but only after installing Pimpzilla, my internet life is complete!
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/marco/pimpzilla// [zeelandnet.nl]

Count me out of the FireFox craze.. (Score:2, Funny)

by JohnBob73 ( 860286 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:14AM (#11698753)

I really do not care for microsoft, but I'll definitely sitck with IE because I'd rather be safe than sorry later on and here is why: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/02/08/spoof/inde x.php

Yay competition, rah rah rah! (Score:2, Funny)

by porcupine8 ( 816071 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:19AM (#11698792) Journal

A summary of just about all of his answers:
There's room for everyone! Competition is great! I love competition! C'mon, compete with me right now, I'll enjoy every minute of it! I'm born to compete! With competition. Whom I adore.

Re:BEFORE applying settings!!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by Ford Prefect ( 8777 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:20AM (#11698794) Homepage

Great little tips, but only one problem, and that's that you're breaking servers by doing this. 3-5 requests is fine, but trying to do 30 requests at once puts some strain on the server.

Hmm... Y'know, I've got an idea.

One meellion maximum connections!

* Puts little finger to mouth and points Firebadger at Microsoft [microsoft.com]. *

Mwuhahahaha!

Commemorative Image scares me... (Score:5, Funny)

by thepseudogenie ( 752975 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:28AM (#11698852)

Is a vectorized fox with flames shooting out of his ass burning the world to a crisp really the image we want for firefox...? I would say that image is apt for Micr... oh nevermind...

Re:More = Better? (Score:4, Funny)

by keiferb ( 267153 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:36AM (#11698920) Homepage

Slashdot isn't complaint.

You must be new here. The slashdot I know (and love) is one big pile of complaint. =)

Re:BEFORE applying settings!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)

by m50d ( 797211 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @10:38AM (#11698940) Homepage Journal

You must be new here. We *like* killing servers.

Re:Hahaha (Score:2, Funny)

by Quantum Fizz ( 860218 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @12:13PM (#11700287)

I'm reminded of a Wang Computers tee-shirt my friend had back in the 80's. Nothing but a slogan :
"My Wang never goes down!"

[OT] From the interview with bill (Score:2, Funny)

by kryptik_79 ( 238375 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @02:36PM (#11702575)

GATES: ... Also the idea of how the phone and the PC are coming together. Where you will be able to see the calls that you missed, or even when your phone rings see immediately who that is that's calling, ...
Umm, it's called caller-id Bill.

Re:what makes it better are the plugins, my top 5 (Score:3, Funny)

by tindur ( 658483 ) writes: on Thursday February 17, 2005 @06:28PM (#11705512)

Still getting dupes and spleling errors?

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Update! (Score:5, Funny)

Refresh button (Score:5, Funny)

Breaking downloads (Score:2, Funny)

Firefox breaks downloads? (Score:5, Funny)

FireFox and IE have something in common... (Score:5, Funny)

Hahaha (Score:5, Funny)

Is Firefox buggy? (Score:1, Funny)

Someone please stop the download bots!! (Score:5, Funny)

IT WAS NEW (Score:2, Funny)

This was too much... (Score:5, Funny)

Pimpzilla (Score:4, Funny)

Count me out of the FireFox craze.. (Score:2, Funny)

Yay competition, rah rah rah! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:BEFORE applying settings!!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

Commemorative Image scares me... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:More = Better? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:BEFORE applying settings!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)

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[OT] From the interview with bill (Score:2, Funny)

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Count me out of the FireFox craze.. (Score:2, Funny)

Yay competition, rah rah rah! (Score:2, Funny)

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Commemorative Image scares me... (Score:5, Funny)

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