It looks like we did just short of a million downloads on our second day putting us over 2 million for the first two days. Amazing.
My preliminary data from today shows a bit more slowdown with the hourly download rate falling by about 25% from it's high on Tuesday. That seems pretty close to what we saw for the first few days of the curve for 1.o PR. Wow.
Let's see if we can keep spreading the word and keep the trendline what it was for the Preview Release. Tell your friends and family. Tell your local newspaper. Tell your co-workers and classmates. Spread the Fox!
Posted by asa at November 11, 2004 02:04 PMfunny to hear microsoft reps talk to the media saying they're not worried at all.
Posted by: sdfsdf on November 11, 2004 02:36 PM"funny to hear microsoft reps talk to the media saying they're not worried at all."
How does it go again? 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.'
jason
Posted by: Jason Lustig on November 11, 2004 03:19 PMAsa, Re "Spreading the Fox":
I talked earlier this week with a sysadmin managing more than 75 computers, proposing to him to switch from IE to FF. His response was that IE provides the ability to be remotly configured (proxy setup, security settings etc.) while he doubted that FF could provide the same.
Is there a way to remotly configure FF, and if not is such a feature being worked on?
(I posted this question on mozillazine's Features forum 2 days ago, but no response..)
I always just use the Ghost program installation utility. Start the uitlity, install firefox, configure as desired, finish making the package, deploy. Of course, I only have 8 computers. 8^)
Posted by: grayrest on November 11, 2004 11:05 PMgrayrest:
I think that the sysadmin meant that with IE he could remotely change configurations after deployment, in case that a specific user needs to gain temp access to a blocked site etc.
In other news, Finjan Software has released an alert warning that attackers could "silently and remotely" hijack SP2 machines because of 10 "major flaws" that compromise end-user security. Coverage of this is all over the place, including http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/44502/44502.html and http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&ncid=1209&e=7&u=/zd/20041111/tc_zd/139123 .
Posted by: Phil Randal on November 12, 2004 12:00 AMhello
why there is no "fast" firefox download link on sfx page ? i think it should be there :)
greets
tom
They had a group of three computer 'experts' on a local talk radio program Wednesday evening and the subject of Firefox being released was the top subject. People were calling in to extoll the virtues of Firefox. I was amazed at how many seemingly non-tech-savvy people were saying they had been using it for a while.
That said, the computer 'experts' themselves didn't seem to know much about Firefox other than it being an alternative browser with tabbed browsing. I had to call in and elaborate on the enhanced security Firefox offered, as well as give a web designer's perspective about web standards support. Needless to say they were a little clueless, but at least the subject matter was good!
Anyway,
Posted by: Will Chatham on November 12, 2004 06:19 AM