Firefox News Roundup

Spaceman40 sent in this ZDNet story. PeterPumpkin collects way too many links to Firefox stories: "According to SpreadFirefox.com , there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day. There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine. According to a report on MozillaZine, Denmark's largest television channel, TV2, reported on the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. PC-WELT, the German equivalent of PC-World, is distributing their own customised version of Firefox to customers." Thomas Hawk writes "Rather than go outside for the past 48 hours, Scott Granneman prefers to burrow in his den and come up with one of the first definitive lists of Firefox links. Good geeking Scott. And way to overcompensate."

Firefox News

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Fair and Balanced!

Oops sorry, wrong thread...

Good geeking Scott.

[YetAnotherName]

Scott, for your sake, I hope there's a 12-Step Program out there for you.

You'll Still never pull me away from 'Gopher'!!!

[Timmy D Programmer]

Ok, so mabye I do use Mozilla. But I thought I'de be the one to remind us of the abnoxiously user unfriendly 'surfing' tools we started out with.

Even hard-line Islamist news portals like Firefox!

[CdBee]

Al-Jazeera: Mozilla's Firefox renews browser war [aljazeera.net]

48 WHOLE Hours?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Rather than go outside for the past 48 hours..."

Which is different from the average Slashdotters day how? Heck, last week I went 3 days without sunlight! God bless Aria Giovanni! Mmmkay!

I was...

[Anonymous Coward]

I was actually going to RTFA, but after seeing a daunting 20 links or so, I decided not to.

So Firefox is a new browser??

Math?

[SlayerofGods]

there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day

Or 600,000 per day.....

Wow...

[WIAKywbfatw]

Wow. Matt Drudge is a fellow Opera user? All of a sudden, I feel dirty.

Re:Matt Drudge

[tfreport]

Of course that is why he does not have popups on his website and he made sure to put a link up at Firefox's release (or Opera's) where his readers would have immediate access and not having to go to their computer after the radio show. Wait, he did not do those things? Glad he is adding to the cause when he can actually make a difference.

Firefox, choice of the pr0n-loving generation!

[Thud457]

Face it, the only reason you get mal-ware is from cruising the seamier side of the internet looking for free pr0n. If you were good, upstanding, moral Christians, you would use IE.

Firefox : tool of The Devil, it's right in the name!

goddamn I wish I could post this drek Anonymously...

no fair!

[i_should_be_working]

how the hell are we supposed to slashdot a site if the article has 15+ links in it?

In Other News

[Anonymous Coward]

Due to the recent broadcast by Al-Jazeera, the Bush administration has placed a ban on Mozilla code due to ties to terrorism, and urges people to stick with the more patriotic Internet Explorer by Microsoft.

Re:no fair!

[Darwin_Frog]

This is another area in which Firefox is superior to IE. Everyone just open 15 tabs, one for each link. IE would require 15 windows for an equivalent /.ing. Firefox: making it easier to set web servers on fire.

Re:Math?

[Bobman1235]

there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day

Or 600,000 per day.....

Hey, Captain semantics.

• there were
• almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day

SO, what the parent said was more accurate than what you said, yes?

Re:English translation

[InfiniteWisdom]

I guess Firefox needs a spell checker... Um Yea. I don't see one installed. The number of posts of people like the parent there who are superior because of thir spelling ability usually drops when I am using OS X whose text areas boxes have red underline spell checking.

Re:Good geeking Scott.

[HyperCash]

There are actualy three different programs out there but none of them are 12 step. There are, however, 4-step, 8-step and 16-step programs.

--HC

Re:Even hard-line Islamist news portals like Firef

[meringuoid]

Coverage on al-Jazeera? Hmm, maybe something along the lines of...

'Windows humanitarian aid worker Minesweeper has been taken hostage by the Firefox resistance organisation. They have issued a videotape in which Minesweeper pleads with President Gates to withdraw Internet Explorer from the occupied desktops. Firefox representatives say that unless Gates complies, Minesweeper will be executed.'

Re:English translation

[InfiniteWisdom]

thir
their :-p

Re:English translation

[breon.halling]

Screw the spellchecker! Let's just forward everything to you first! =)

Re:Even hard-line Islamist news portals like Firef

[LuxFX]

Oops! I clicked the link! Now I'm going to be on some FBI hit-list or something....

Re:Wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

Dirty for being associated with Drudge or for not using Firefox?

Re:English translation

[Enigma_Man]

thir

Way to go.

-Jesse

Re:What amazes me...

[flossie]

...is that for at least a half-dozen years that half-million users could have coughed up a measely thirty bucks and had Opera.

Why would anyone pay for Opera when we have had lynx all this time for free?

I can't tell. . .

[jafac]

Is this an article about Firefox?
Or Computer Geeks with Obsessive-Compulsive disorder?
(irrational exuberance, indeed)

Re:English translation

[InfiniteWisdom]

You grammar/spelling nazi!

Re:Where's the damn NYT ad?

[kfg]

I want to know when I can buy a copy of the NYT and see my name.

The day after your indictment, of course.

KFG

Re:What amazes me...

[sydb]

If you're $14,000 in debt you know full well you should be out flipping burgers, not posting to slashdot and pontificating about browsers.

You young people.

Re:English translation

[0racle]

Don't be too hard on them. It's probably the only good feeling they get in their lives.

Re:Slashdot vs Firefox

[ZB Mowrey]

...There's a big problem.

Oh, yeah, it's a huge problem. Earth shaking importance aside, it's a minor glitch. For anyone to get bent out of shape over such an insignificant problem (as compared to the other hundreds or thousands of firefox bugs being worked on) is kinda ridiculous. Remote crash exploits are big problems. Privacy intrusion is a big problem. Rendering Slashdot incorrectly (from 10-100% of the time, makes no difference) is kinda small in comparison.

Re:Wow...

[Guppy06]

It could be worse: George W. Bush could be a Babylon 5 fan. Oh, wait...

Re:English translation

[J'raxis]

:-p

:p