May 15, 2008

500 Million Firefox Downloads

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500 Million Firefox Downloads

Saint_Michael
Yesterday was the biggest milestone in Firefox history they just hit 500 Million downloads of their most famous software the Firefox web browser. All I have is WOW! and such a short time to of course when you create a program that is more advance, more secured, and just plain out more better then everyone else's, that number isn't that surprising because of the popularity it has receive in under 4 years of being out there. Of course with Firefox 3 on it's way out I would be surprised if it hits 1 billion in less the time though.

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saitunes
Well, Firefox is plain better than most of whats out there. Not to mention its huge ability to be customized with the millions of extensions out there. on a pc, i use firefox, on my mac i use camino which is a cocoa (I don't actually know what cocoa is on a mac) port or version of firefox... I did have firefox but it kept crashing so i switched to camino which described by mozilla as 'Firefox Mac style'

I Love firefox

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SkyStormKuja
I must say, Firefox is not too bad. It has the stability that IE can't offer, and it's an amazingly fast browser. I myself prefer Opera, but the idea is still there. I'm glad to see browsers other than IE make it into the big-business. FF is defenitely giving MS a run for its money.

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t3jem
wow, I betcha that's more than the downloads for internet explorer tongue.gif. Firefox is better and more secure, so I'm glad to see so many people use it, unfortunatly i must say, i think 3 or 4 of those hits are just me, but i'm sure there 500 million unique hits now biggrin.gif.

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tricky77puzzle
I think the most important milestone was the first one: 1 million.

With 500 million, it just gets higher and higher...

There'll be another announcement at 600 million, 700 million, etc. up to 1 billion. Then it will start going up at 2 billion, 3 billion, etc. until it reaches the 6 billion mark, which would be impossible, considering there aren't even that many users of the Internet, and most won't download Firefox originally more than once.

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kapuk99
QUOTE(tricky77puzzle @ Feb 24 2008, 12:02 AM) *
I think the most important milestone was the first one: 1 million.

With 500 million, it just gets higher and higher...

There'll be another announcement at 600 million, 700 million, etc. up to 1 billion. Then it will start going up at 2 billion, 3 billion, etc. until it reaches the 6 billion mark, which would be impossible, considering there aren't even that many users of the Internet, and most won't download Firefox originally more than once.


Yeah, that's very true. I myself downloaded Firefox over 20 times though. tongue.gif

Anyway, there aren't many types of add ons for Firfox 3 Beta 3

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demank
firefox is the amazing free software that i've ever known.
different with another browser, firefox can be a primer browser for almost user here, isnt it?
keep on firefox..

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heavensounds
Firefox is really good! I used to use Opera and couldn't start using anything else, because I was so used to it. Then I switched to Mac for two months and now that I am back using Windows XP, I think Firefox is the closest thing to Safari so I started using it and I am already starting to love it! Good job for the 500 million - well deserved!

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