Firefox Downloads Reach 75 Million

WindozeSux writes "Today Mozilla Firefox has reached its 75 millionth download. The Mozilla staff find this a morale booster since recent security vulnerabilities have slightly lowered the browser's growth rate. 'We're beefing up the management on the project. The project is still very healthy. We're seeing continued corporate interest and have a lot of large organizations that want to do deployments,' said Chris Hoffman."

About that...

[Rie Beam]

The Mozilla staff find this a morale booster since recent security vulnerabilities have slightly lowered the browser's growth rate.

...about that...Seventy-four million of those were me - you see, I've got AOL, and it has a tendency to disconnect me mid-download, so a lot of that was probably me trying to get a full copy. But hey! There's always next month.

Promoters

[KiloByte]

Don't worry.
With a huge corporation [microsoft.com] doing everything they can [microsoft.com] to support Firefox, how can it fail?
The day MS changes its tactics I may start to worry.

Re:relevance

[cheezemonkhai]

To gather statistics the Mozilla FOundation should include a small program with Firefox.

This would monitor what browser you are using on your system, and would not collect any personal information to be sent back to the foundation. :p

This software could be required to make the browser work, just liek the stuff that is required for software you have paid for.

Don't forget some silly EULA to go with it too.

Stupid Firefox fanboy!

[Winckle]

I'm trying to look at your screenshot, but IE6 doesn't even say there's a picture there, what the fuck is png, everyone knows pictures are .jpg!

Re:It's a big number.

[Anonymous Coward]

The number is big, and still increasing.

Well, I for one would be really surprised if it started declining.

Well, I for one....

[Eatmorecake]

Welcome our new Open-Source, Not-for-Profit Overlords....

Congradulations, Firefox Team.

Re:The competition isn't coming.

[Netsensei]

Am I the only one that notices the difference between the IE7 'home' button and the one from FF? Examine it closely, the only 'real' differences are the makeshift chimney and the absence of windows. I - for one - wouldn't trust a home with no windows and a chimney. This is especially disturbing for the elderly!

In conclusion: IE7 makes you go bald and infertile. Your wife *will* leave you and your cat will most likely vomit on your keyboard. (can I have a cookie now?)

congratulations

[aalu.paneer]

great job firefox team ... thanks to you 2005 is not like 1984 ...

Here's how to make it accurate...

[wbren]

The Firefox team should just use the Windows Genuine Advantage© Program to validate users, allowing one download per licensed machine. That way, only Javascript hackers will be able to fudge the download numbers. Simple. I should be a marketing exec.

Re:Can Firefox be marketed?

[shobadobs]

Thanks, because I was really worried! I can rest easy now.

Re:The competition isn't coming.

[goldspider]

"Because IE7 is a rubbish. Before you mod this flamebait,"

Yeah, because around these parts, you need to choose your words carefully when criticizing Microsoft.

Re:Can Firefox be marketed?

[Hope Thelps]

I suppose that if there is no God when I die and that my belief in Him was for naught, that I can at least take satisfaction in how I lived my life trying to do my best to be patient and kind to other people and generally doing my best to live rightly.

Same here, if there really is a god and it decides me to condemn me to eternal torture for not having believed in its existence then I'll be able to take satisfaction in how I lived my life trying to do my best to be patient and kind to other people and generally doing my best to live rightly.

Okay then

[Coppit]

I guess I can kill this process...

#!/bin/sh

while true; do
curl -L 'http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.0. 6&os=osx&lang=en-US' > /dev/null;
done

Re:definition of today

[AirRaven]

Safest? I don't know about that. It's certainly the most comfortable to surf with, though. And it doesn't seem to go into convulsions at the sight of Java on my system- which is more than I can say for Firefox. They're pretty much equal in most aspects. But the question we must ask ourselves is why are we bothering with these newfangled, "next gen" browsers when we have a perfectly functional IE6 available right now? We might like the tabbed browsing, and added security, but with Microsoft putting such a herculean effort into patching the holes in IE as soon as they appear, it's not quite as insecure as most make it out to be. Popup blockers can be downloaded for free. It's all that most people want- your average joe won't be fussing about it lacking tabbed browsing or not supporting Foxytunes or the like. Firefox is unnecessary for most people. As is Opera.

In related news....

[3vi1]

In related news: IE reaches 75 million security patches.

Re:It's a big number.

[Bob McCown]

How else am I going to get uploader credits?

Here comes the beef

[Medievalist]

"We're beefing up the management on the project" said Chris Hoffman.

And that ALWAYS helps a software project.

Re:definition of today

[Sj0]

I'm getting irritated by these pantywaists why say we need web browsers. Whatever happened to telnetting to port 80?

Re:Some advice to the Firefox team

[Vacant Mind]

Firefox! Totally whips the llama's^H^H^H^HBill's ass!