Firefox Hits 100 Million Downloads!!!

[drgrudge]

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On Spread firefox website

25 million in 99 days: Do you all ever sleep?
On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone.

Thank you.


Spread the fire.....

[Scorpion]

Fire fox fires.... on my PC too!

[goobimama]

Its a lovely feeling of accomplishment. I at first didn't realise that spreading firefox could bring so much of pleasure, and pleasure in seeing your family, friends and destitutes browsing the net in happiness......

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[babumuchhala]

Originally Posted by Sourabh

i guess we would c firefox 2.0 before it reaches the 50 million mark

Sourabh now as u can see that FF already got 25Million downloads in 99 dayz and before 1 April it will breach 50 million mark.

Firefox the BEST

[leftraju]

hi friends,
i am facing problem in firefox 1.0 as I am not able to see hindi websites (font problem) and also facing problem in bookmark to see my favourite while off line.
I have already installed hindi fonts for hindi websites and when I switched over to IE6 then no problem to see hindi websites like (webduniya-sehat etc, jagran.com) what should i do for both problems?
celeron 1gh
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leftraju

[drgrudge]

It's not 50 yet, but gonna reach soon...

Dear Firefox contributors,

They said browsers were dead. They said open source would never penetrate the mainstream. But you've never cared much for rules, have you? And now we're blazing a trail to 50 million downloads worldwide. As we turn open source into a household word and reassert the supremacy of simplicity, we are making waves—and starting fires.

We've spent long nights in a tiny conference room here in Mountain View trying to figure out how to celebrate this momentous occasion. Should we lower Mitchell, our fearless president, into an erupting volcano? Send her backpacking through the Alps? In the end, we decided we'd rather celebrate by rewarding those who got us here. And that's you.

We have a handful of unique prizes that you won't find anywhere else, and we're asking you to do one simple thing to claim one: impress us. As we drive toward 50 million downloads, do something so cool, so unusual and so spectacular to spread Firefox that we can't help but scurry around the Mozilla Foundation to tell every one. Send a photo of your feat to fifty@spreadfirefox.com.

So what impresses us? Maybe it's convincing your mayor to declare a Firefox holiday (take a picture of the declaration). Or going to the prom dressed as a Firefox (take a picture of your date slapping you). We'll keep a running log of the prize winners and their stories below. The sky's the limit, but the clock's ticking.
49,996,610
(actual number)

Thanks,
Blake Ross Asa Dotzler
Blake and Asa
The SpreadFirefox team

P.S. As soon as we turn 50, we'll be giving away the biggest prize of all to a special Spread Firefox affiliate, and it has nothing to do with impressing us. Come see us on the big day to find out more.

[drgrudge]

IT's 50 million now!

Firefox downloads: 50,001,125


Consider this to 8mn download of Opera!

[grinning_devil]

WOW!!!!!

just checked....
counter is increasing at an alrming rate!!!

last count was 50,012,913 !!!!

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/fifty.html

[drgrudge]

Firefox Reaches 75 Million Downloads

Congratulations, today we have reached 75,000,000 downloads. The download was made 13:17:10 CEST.

Here are some facts to help you with a understanding of this huge number:

* 25% of the US population
* Over 2 times the population of Canada
* 50% of the Russian population
* 16% of the population in the European Union
* 60% of the Japanese population
* 6% of the Chinese population

Thats 25,000,000 more downloads in less than 3 months, after the 50 million downloads milestone in April. The 100 million downloads milestone isn't that far away

Other milestones are close to be reached aswell, as Mozilla's open-source mail client ThunderBird is nearing on its 10 millionth download, and Minimo, the browser for small devices had its first prerelease version with tabs, RSS support and a bookmark manager. The Mozilla staff itself has quadrupled during the past six months, to 40 employees.

Mozilla on Tuesday marked the 75 millionth download of Firefox. It's unsure, though, how many users are actually using Firefox as their web browser; The counter counts multiple downloads of different versions and doesn't count Mozilla's automatic updates or copies from single downloads distributed through organizations by technology managers.

The milestone provides at least a psychological boost to the foundation's volunteers and staffers, who have watched growth rates slip this year amid a string of security problems.

"We're beefing up the management on the project," said Chris Hofmann, whose title at Mozilla is in flux since the foundation hired another director of engineering. "The project is still very healthy. We're seeing continued corporate interest and have a lot of large organizations that want to do deployments."

Spread Firefox:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/17221

Source: Neowin.net

FX market share:




Download the Fire:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/download.html

[vandit]

Hey what makes our foxy so lovable and user friendly????? I have even forgotton that I have IE installed and running ever since the foxy has arrived.......
Until today when by mistake I downloaded the JAVA plugin for IE instead of firefox....
can anyone tell me how to use that downloaded plugin for my firefox not needin to download it again......????? :roll:

[Vishal Gupta]

U can check JSLib Lite extension for Java Script:

D/l JSBLit Lite

[QwertyManiac]

I hope it reaches a couple of billion as i just love it very very much.

I also develop some exts for it though i havent submitted one.

[vandit]

how do I use the D/l JSBLit Lite plug in....?

[Vishal Gupta]

Download from the link, I provided.
Then unzip the file, open Firefox and goto Tools -> Extensions, now simply drag-n-drop the extracted file from the HDD into Extensions windows of firefox, it'll install it, now close & reopen the browser.
SIMPLE...

[Sreekanth V]

Please answer my question.
Will Firefox support WebFond technology?

[Retro]

I was surprised to see this article in Today's "The Hindu". If such a local paper devotes a portion of their last page for an article on Firefox, then it means that Firefox's grip on the general public has tightened. Go Firefox!!


A weather balloon satellite will be launched to celebrate 100 million downloads of Mozilla Firefox. The Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium balloon satellite, dubbed Firefox One, is expected to reach a height of 100,000 feet (about 30 kilometres or 19 miles) when it's launched from the Memorial Union Quad at the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, Oregon (north-western United States) at noon on Saturday. It will carry a payload of a large Firefox banner, a Firefox CD-ROM and a camera to "take photos of Firefox at the edge of space".

The stunt, which marks the 100 million Firefox download milestone reached earlier this week, is being coordinated by the Oregon State University Linux Users Group, the Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium and the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. The Open Source Lab is already a major contributor to the Mozilla project and provides hosting facilities for some of the Mozilla servers. The Open Source Lab also hosts MozillaZine.

Spectators are advised to arrive at about 11:45am. For those who cannot make it in person, the event will be viewable on the Memorial Union Quad webcam.

Previously, the Oregon State University Linux Users Group chalked a giant Firefox logo on the Memorial Union Quad to celebrate Mozilla Firefox's fifty millionth download earlier this year. More details of this and other fifty million download celebrations can be found on the Spread Firefox Blazing a Trail to 50,000,000 page.

Plus here is an interview with Mozilla's Tristan Nitot http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143426/mozilla-q

~ Retro

[drgrudge]

Good new there. :d
By the, it's raining in my place, and still the newspapers have not be delivered.. looking forward to read that article.



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[kato]

of course u need to install the flash plugin for firefox or how the hell can it show u flash animations. Man that was a dumb question. Firefox is the best and it is the browser i use and its cool.


@drgrudge
Yahaan to barish bahut dhire se ho rahi thi useless rains never rain heavily when needed

[drgrudge]

^^
Dhire se barish tho aaj subah nahi ho rahi, it was quiet heavy.. maloom nahi kab se shuru huyi, but it went on till 7:30 am.

[kato]

u lucky guys anna nagar mein baarish was very dhire.

Looking at the downloads counter i guess it showd me 101367831 downloads i love firefox