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Firefox Breaks 50,000,000 Barrier
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on Fri Apr 29, 2005 01:19 PM
from the get-up-get-on-up dept.
from the get-up-get-on-up dept.
MrDrBob writes "Today at 16:59 GMT (8:58 AM PST) Mozilla Firefox received its 50,000,000th download. To celebrate, SpreadFirefox.com has created a special page, where you can watch the downloads continue to climb in real time. Three cheers for Firefox! May it go on swiftly to 100,000,000!"
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Rumor has it (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Rumor has it (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.dragonswest.com/ | Last Journal: Monday November 05, @07:35PM)
I think Bill Gates would volunteer to fly him there.
Time zones (Score:5, Funny)
*blink*
Re:Time zones (Score:4, Funny)
(http://nharmon.multics.org/)
Downloads per user (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Downloads per user (Score:5, Informative)
(http://markbyers.com/ | Last Journal: Monday July 24 2006, @12:54PM)
Re:Downloads per user (Score:4, Informative)
Gentoo does not host the packages that you download. They host the ebuilds and the ebuilds tell portage where to download the packages from.
So, you downloaded it directly from mozilla. Check the ebuild yourself if you don't believe me.
Re:Downloads per user (Score:4, Interesting)
The download counter only counts "foreign" browsers (like IE, or Opera), or Versions before 1.0.
If you download a new installer with a current (1.0 or >) version, it won't count.
There goes most of the theories about counts surmised above...
We're probably seeing a realistic download count for unique users for non-current versions...
FPO
Small nit to pick... (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday September 09, @05:43PM)
While the counter is cute, I'd call it a bogometer.
Re:Small nit to pick... (Score:5, Insightful)
I would hardly seems like it could be the actual number in real time.
Re:Small nit to pick... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday September 09, @05:43PM)
Guess they got me on a technicality. That's an "actual number" alright!
Re:Small nit to pick... (Score:5, Insightful)
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ffcounter.js [spreadfirefox.com]
Re:Small nit to pick... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.xenoveritas.org/ | Last Journal: Monday September 24, @04:04PM)
If you look at the source [spreadfirefox.com], you'll see that it is actually pulling a real number from an RSS feed [spreadfirefox.com].
It then defaults to 2 downloads a second, incrementing the timer by that rate every second. When it grabs the feed again a minute later, it then uses the "real" rate of downloads from the first grab to the second grab and starts incrementing by that amount.
It then continues to do that for as long as the page is up.
So the number is real-ish.
Hey, it says "actual number"--so it has to be! (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, the javascript only updates once a minute, and when it does, it computes a new rate, so the increments you see are only estimates until the next update.
Re:Hey, it says "actual number"--so it has to be! (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Monday March 05 2007, @10:11AM)
Not quite real time.
Swim... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday May 24, @01:08AM)
Re:Swim... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://outintheblack.blogspot.com/)
Now (Score:5, Funny)
(http://joe-baldwin.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday September 02 2006, @11:58AM)
Erm, wrong browser. Whoops.
To be fair.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Just remember (Score:5, Insightful)
(1.0. - 1.0.3)
I am sure others have done the same.
I got a cold splash in the face last week when i told my client they should be using firefox. They responed "what's firefox"
Its a little too early to break out the "IE is dead" champagne...
I hope it will happen someday but there is much more work to be done.
Firefox does not 'auto update' (Score:4, Insightful)
The new installation overwrites the old one, keeping your various settings (history, bookmarks, etc.) in tact.
It would be interesting to find out how many of those downloads were resulting from the upgrade prompt (red arrow). Hopefully, that's already been factored in.
Opera has 49 million or so to go to catch up. (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://my.opera.com/usability)
Slightly Inflated? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Slightly Inflated? (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Wednesday January 15 2003, @02:17AM)
Harder #s? (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/~Doc%20Ruby/journal | Last Journal: Thursday March 31 2005, @01:48PM)
Re:Harder #s? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://jearl.0catch.com/)
This is what OneStat [onestat.com] has to say.
AMAZING (Score:3, Interesting)
Does this include yesterday (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://thepeckfamily.us/ | Last Journal: Saturday November 17, @01:31AM)
Do these downloads count? If so-- then every time there is an update you are really ramping up your numbers due to current users getting it.
Re:Does this include yesterday (Score:5, Informative)
(http://mozilla.org/)
- A
The 50 millionth person (Score:4, Funny)
(http://seenonslash.com/ | Last Journal: Friday May 11 2007, @04:02PM)
Re:The 50 millionth person (Score:4, Informative)
(http://mozilla.org/)
Actually, we're rewarding the members of the Firefox community who helped that guy find Firefox. The big prize will go to the Spread Firefox affiliate who delivered the click that coincided with the 50 millionth download. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/fifty.html [spreadfirefox.com]
- A
Celebrate--giving their history.... (Score:5, Funny)
slashdotted already (article text) (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.tie-rack.org/)
50,037,605
50,037,606
50,037,607
50,037,608
50,037,609
50,037,610
50,037,611
50,037,612
50,037,613
50,037,614
In Internet Explorer (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:In Internet Explorer (Score:5, Informative)
(http://people.connexer.com/~roberto)
And it can't be a coincidence that the page doesn't display properly in Internet Explorer!!
Look here. This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict! [w3.org] No conspiracy theories around here. Valid HTML is difficult to get looking right in IE.
Re:Are all versions of Firefox included? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://mozilla.org/)
If your download did not go through one of those links, then you aren't counted.
- A
Re:Are all versions of Firefox included? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://mozilla.org/)
- A
We have identified this user ? (Score:5, Funny)
Along with coin #1 in the series, we are also awarding a very special prize--the biggest we've ever given out--to the lucky SpreadFirefox affiliate who delivered the golden click that went with the 50 millionth download. We have identified this person and will withhold her information until she accepts the prize. Check back early next week!
I wonder how they did it...
---
Return-path: 50thmillionfirefox@mpaa.com
Received: from catchthepirate.mpaa.com
Received: from mail.mpaa.com
Received: from some.isp.com
Subject: Firefox 50th million download
Hi, we are from spreadfirefox.com and have identified the 50th million firefox downloader as coming from ip UUU.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.
Please give us his/her name and address so we can contact him/her to give them this prize !
Thank you in advance,
Firefox team
Re:We have identified this user ? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://mozilla.org/)
- A
Re:What does it mean ? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://mozilla.org/)
- A
Wonder what other gecko browsers would bring it to (Score:4, Interesting)
It has proper session support, it has proper theme support, and it solved my flash slowdown issues with certain sites that I've always had in FF.
I initially read that that was a gtk2 bug, but later read it was due to an XUL overhead issue.
The other gnome browser, epiphany, is also an option and the default gnome, I just found galeon more feature complete instead of the minimalist approach of epiphany.
Anyway, it's all gecko with just different packaging. And there's also that Kmelon one on the windows side. So I wonder what that would bring the downloads with considering all gecko browsers. Obviously pretty hard to keep track of in linux when one rarely downloads from the actual site.
Meanwhile, at Opera... (Score:3, Funny)
(http://john.cavaliers.org/)
RP
Re:It's Good to be the King (Score:5, Informative)
The guy who did the Christmas and Haloween lights prank did a rather nice analysis [komar.org] on the incoming bandwidth from Slashdot and other media sites.
Pasted below is Slashdot's statistics:
5 min: 781
10 min: 1,604
1 hour: 11,699
2 hours: 21,651
4 hours: 35,895
8 hours: 53,720
24 hours: 90,607
2 days: 94,830
week: 98,054
month: 117,210
Take it with a grain of salt though...the analysis might be another hoax
Re:Actual number ... yeah ... right. (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.blakeross.com/)
Given the inherent margin of error with the "ACTUAL actual number," and the fact that we're dealing with a number as high as 50 million downloads and a delta as low as about 200, our consciences are quite clean labelling this the "actual number." We average around 240 downloads/minute.
Somehow I don't think we'd have linked to the page that describes exactly how the counter is implemented in the footer of the letter if we were trying to hide that information.