You all are AMAZING! In the first day alone you all have added over 400 reviews! And the testimonials and reviews are just awesome. We don't have the millions (probably hundreds of millions) of dollars that the other guys have and we don't have a desktop monopoly to take advantage of but what we do have is a great product and an even greater community.
We can and we will hit 1,000 reviews. I read a lot of comments about losing all your hard work when they updated to 0.9.2. Well, the Windows version has been updated to Firefox 0.9.2 and the reviews are all still there.
If you've already contacted all of your Firefox using friends and family, then it's time to get some more converts :-) You all are unstoppable :D In less than one day, you've made a real quantifiable difference. You've added hundreds of great reviews, pushing Firefox up to the most reviewed of all of the popular browsers at download.com. You've pushed the rating up to 96% giving us 3rd spot in the browser listings and with an average rating of 5 (the best)in features, ease of use, and performance.
Some of you may have thought I was kidding when I said we'd get 10,000 reviews by 1.0. That's a pretty large number, but how many of you would have guessed that we'd have added nearly 400 reviews in the first day? We just need to keep spreading the word -- getting people to try Firefox so they'll fall in love, pointing them at the download.com listing, and then getting them to go after their friends to switch to Firefox. Let's keep this rolling right up to 1.0!
Posted by asa at July 8, 2004 07:01 PMHaving added comments (in several places) about reviews getting lost in several places, I sit corrected and apologise for unnecessary doomsaying. Reviews definitely did get lost going from 0.9 to 0.9.1, and Opera's reviews were cleared when 7.52 replaced 7.51.
I don't know when things get cleared and when they don't, but it's certainly good that 0.9.2 hasn't resulted in that happening. :)
Anyway, if we can achieve 400 reviews in a day, then even if and when they do get cleared, we can get a whole load more up there just by reminding Firefox users to post reviews...
Posted by: michaell on July 8, 2004 07:39 PMCamino is rated #1 in the "our Favorite Freeware" in the "In Mac" section of Download.com without any grassroot effort !!
Posted by: Ludovic Hirlimann on July 8, 2004 08:11 PMI voted at download.com but, more importantly, did some evangelism at a message board I run and have a number of new adoptees.
Who knew that the Department of Homeland Security and its affiliated apparati would be useful?
:D
Posted by: BettyPageisaBlonde on July 8, 2004 08:47 PMAfter posting a rather detailed review of Firefox on Download.com, I quoted Blake's original post from mozillaZine on three very active tech forums that I frequently post on to get even more people to vote. Finally, I also added a post/link on my own blog.
Anything to support a browser I couldn't live without. Go go, Firefox! :D
Posted by: Kunal Kundaje on July 8, 2004 10:34 PMAsa, your 'switch to firefox' link is broken.
Posted by: Mike Goodspeed on July 8, 2004 11:34 PM545 reviews, 19 negative, 526 positive. Well, I can say only this: great job!
People love it :)
BTW: I don`t like big sites like download.com. Just never used them :) But, its a good marketing I gues...
I found that if you view the download.com page in Windows, it shows 400+ reviews; while in Mac, it shows onlt 10+ reviews...
What's wrong with it? It detects my OS?
Posted by: minghong on July 9, 2004 03:02 AMJust awsome. Keep up the excellent work!
The next target could be BetaNews/FileForum. It is quite a popular site.
Mozilla Firefox:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1032985422/1
Mozilla Thunderbird:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1057948436/1
Mozilla Suite:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/942889097/1