The Inside Track on Firefox Development.
February 25, 2004
I come to you now at the turn of the tide
Download numbers for the first 2.5 weeks of Firefox 0.8 downloading are in:
2.1 million downloads (approx)
Details:
Linux - 13.5%
MacOS X - 8.3%
Windows - 78.2%
Posted by ben at February 25, 2004 11:26 PM
Comments
Awesome!
You should do a PR thing
Posted by: Antwone at February 26, 2004 4:48 AM
I learned a good life lesson from a former co-worker: whenever you say "1 million" - always say it like an evil genius.
"One meeellllionnnnn!"
Posted by: Steven Garrity at February 26, 2004 6:12 AM
Platinumfox.
Posted by: miahz at February 26, 2004 8:04 AM
Awesome.
Are these just Mozilla.org and official mirror downloads?
Thanks!
Posted by: Jed at February 26, 2004 8:40 AM
Powerjackalope.
Posted by: del at February 26, 2004 9:33 AM
Great!!!
Would be nice to see these and more statistics (weekly downloads, total downloads etc) regularly updated mozilla.org.
Keep up the good work
Posted by: jaap at February 26, 2004 3:21 PM
That's great!
I just wish that non-i686 binaries would be available to Linux users with older machines.
Posted by: Mikhail Capone at February 26, 2004 3:34 PM
does that inculde all major mirrors?
Posted by: berkut at February 27, 2004 3:06 AM
That's cause Firefox kicks ass :)
Posted by: Arcterex at February 27, 2004 10:50 AM
FYI: The german version of Mozilla Firefox was downloaded more than 100,000 times, since Firefox 0.8 has been released:
LINK
--Thomas
Posted by: Thomas Kaschwig at February 27, 2004 2:37 PM
You redirect MSIE users away from your site since IE is not "standards capable", yet your own weblog doesn't validate on validator.w3.org
Posted by: Strange at February 28, 2004 8:47 AM
And...?
Someone call the wahmbulance.
... I do have to wonder about the folks that rove around the net, scowling and running pages through validators. It's almost a justification for the draft...
Posted by: Ben at February 28, 2004 4:02 PM
WTG! Best browser in the business and the price is unbeatable.
However, the javascript lockout of IE users is both funny and sad. Remember the bad old days of Netscape, Ben? When Netscape was King? When they came out with non-standard tag after tag?, blinks, layers, spacers, etc? Let say everyone does ditch IE for Mozilla/Firefox. Now that Mozilla/Firefox is king of this imaginary hill, how do we know you won't go off into non-standard land again, now that you have the user base to warrant it? Knowing that nearly everyone's browser will support your non-standard stuff?
Posted by: Ulujain at February 29, 2004 2:00 AM
This is not an official Firefox site. It has existed in one form or another for seven years, predating my involvement in Mozilla. I maintain this log as a collection of my thoughts
for the benefit of myself and my friends. The web content I
produce for mozilla.org validates and renders in all modern web browsers.
I'm not partial to half-solutions, so I'm not happy to leave this site rendering incorrectly in Internet Explorer. I have better things to do than work
around its bugs.
Anyone unhappy with this is free not to visit.
Posted by: Ben Goodger at February 29, 2004 2:20 AM
Is it ok to copy your IE blocking code?
I'd like to do the same..
Posted by: vfwlkr at February 29, 2004 3:28 AM
Seven years of Millennium, eh? I have a friend up here in Boston who says that Millennium used to be a Sailor Moon fan site. Any truth to that claim? I promise I won't mock you if that's the case. I'm currently enjoying Sailor Moon Live Action.
Posted by: Jon at February 29, 2004 4:14 PM
Nice, and that can't possibly even include all of the downloads of unofficial/optimized builds. :D!
Posted by: Cell at February 29, 2004 7:43 PM
LOL - it's true. The current site design is an evolution of this one http://www.bengoodger.com/images/oldsites/millennium6andromeda.jpg created in 1999 but never used. Since I created this journal I have been recycling old designs since my artistic abilities have been suffering in recent years and my interest in writing HTML has dimininshed. I attribute those old sites, with their fancy DHTML to my interest in Mozilla.
Posted by: Ben at March 1, 2004 1:14 AM
I wonder what the download figures will be like when Firefox 1.0 comes out?
Posted by: Sam C at March 12, 2004 4:08 AM
Great site and love the IE blocking that just earned you a place on my bookmark toolbar(on firefox of course...the crowd ohhs and ahhs).
Posted by: David Ferrando at April 19, 2004 6:13 PM
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