been watching the ticker all day ... congratulations!!!

Yeeah, that's it! No need to swim ;-), Firefox flies! Congrat to all the staff at MoFo and affiliates! Big thanks to everyone who download the pet!

I screenshotted it at 50,000,025 (http://www.rebee.clara.net/images/ff50.jpg).

Can anyone better this?

Phil

I can.
50,000,000 exactly.

(http://pinksocks.co.uk/dropbox/04-2005/firefox50milliond.jpg)

Congratulations!

Firefox is so sucessful!! Amazing!!

Great work everyone ^^

Almost. Cheers to everyone at MoFo and cheers to everyone who keeps downloading Firefox!

~ Kevin

Fifty million exactly

-kbrosnan

I've used and believed in Firefird/Firefox since the very first day I got to know it. Its huge success is nothing less than it deserved =)
Congrats!

congrats

Congratulations!

But remember: download figures are much higher when you think of all the localized download pages of all the computer magazines and others. I guess that we are well over 60 Million!

50.000 screenshot posted at 9:04 AM (=18:04 GMT=2) in the German firefox Forum, 3 minutes before Asa's posting here ^^
http://firefox.uni-duisburg.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=125432#125432

another goodie:

the recent user statistics from heise-online, the leading german computer online magazin:

User-Agent April 2005
Firefox 39,6 %
Internet Explorer 6.0x 29,7 %
Gecko (Mozilla/Netscape) 9,2 %
...
Internet Explorer 5.5x 1,4 %
Internet Explorer 5.0x 0,8 %

Firefox ROCKS!!!
I'm gonna make an image of a rock concert with that slogan :p
anyway congratz on all the people who helped achieving this

I don't know if it is really a good time to mention this, but how many users are still at risk?

here is to 50 more thank you

onideus:
1) microsoft did everything they could to push the browser. not only did they bundled it with their os, they even integrated it into the os, so that when you boot you already load the browser.
2) 50 million, and god only knows how many magazine cds, multiple installs from one copy etc etc etc
3) massive advertising campaign? one ad in new york times?
4) msie had 96% market share. you say it has 80% now. so how do you come to the conclusion that firefox is only eating the netscape market share?
5) "mozilla" is a foundation. it wont run out of money
6) open source software runs on the fun programmers have in programming, not money.
7) netscape was "annihilated" as you prefer to call it when it got bought by aol some years ago.
8) firefox is competition for msie. this is shown by e.g. the fact that microsoft changed its plans not to release msie 7.0 as a stand alone application.

have a nice day

testboy:

Not taking sides, but I need to correct a couple of your statements. Just because Mozilla is a foundation doesn't mean it can't run out of money. Not-for-profit organizations need money too! Mozilla no doubt needs money to pay hosting fees, buy computers and supplies, pay salaries to administrative staff, pay for critical advertising, pay legal and audit fees, etc. (so remember to donate!) I could be wrong about this, but I suspect that Netscape may be paying big bucks to include a chunk of Firefox code in its browser. This isn't a criticism, in fact I think its great since it will provide much needed cashflow to Firefox which can be reinvested to make it stronger. Also, while Firefox certainly depends heavily on the generous contribution of many unpaid volunteer programmers, that doesn't mean they are all unpaid. Just check out the careers section of the Mozilla Foundation web page. Mozilla depends heavily on recruiting the best people they can. These guys are doing great work and I hope they are being paid well.

is this astroturfing combined with trolling?

Yes.

Regenerative posting bot. Seriously. I love the way that people who are already inconceivably annoying feel the need to make up nonsense like that.

- Chris

What was the point of removing my reply, when his post autmataically is reposted?