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Over 100 million Firefox downloads

20 October 2005 3:10 by James "Dela" Delahunty | 15 comments

Mozilla Corp. said on Wednesday that the open source Firefox web browser has been downloaded over 100 million times, far exceeding expectations since its launch last November. The next big move for Firefox will be the release of Firefox 1.5 this fall. Despite the great news about the milestone Firefox has reached, the spreading of the browser has begun to slow down in it's competition with the dominant browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Firefox lost three quarters of a percentage point in September, which was its second slip in just three months. It's market share fell to 7.55% from 8.27% in August. It's best share was in June, where it had 8.71%. The spread Firefox marketing site is also back up and running now after being closed down two weeks ago due to a hack that could have exposed personal information of registered users.

You can download Firefox from: http://www.filepedia.com/network_software/web_browsers/firefox.cfm

For Linux: http://www.filepedia.com/alternative_platforms/linux_software/firefox_for_linux.cfm

For Mac OS X: http://www.filepedia.com/alternative_platforms/mac_software/firefox_for_mac.cfm

Source:
InformationWeek

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arcanix (AfterDawn Addict) 20 October 2005 4:34
Quite accurate percentage they use. How do they even measure these things? Do they just check every visitors browsers on a site? [ + quote]
Lethal_B (Moderator) 20 October 2005 9:47
Well done to Mozilla FireFox! I've only been on it for about 5 days but NO MORE POP-UPS!! =D so I am very happy for them! Lethal [ + quote]
DVDBack23 (Staff Member) 20 October 2005 10:25
Quote: Well done to Mozilla FireFox! I've only been on it for about 5 days but NO MORE POP-UPS!! =D so I am very happy for them! Couldnt agree more, FireFox is excellent and very fast and ironically the only pop ups i ever get using FireFox are from afterDawn!! Here at college... Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook P4 2.4 Processor 640 MB Crucial Ram Logitech X-530 5.1 Speakers Call of Duty online name: [IKG]ThaPinkPantha DVD Media Im Using: Sony08d1 DVD-R and MCC Verb DVD-R Ultimate BitComet Guide http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/234097 How To remove all Spyware/Adware/BHO/Malware http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/245859 How to Rip Audio from a DVD and into WAV/MP3 http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/239698 PAL to NTSC Conversion Guide: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/220673 [ + quote]
arcanix (AfterDawn Addict) 20 October 2005 10:32
Download adblock plugin to FireFox, then you'll get rid of ads on sites. It will just remove them, you can choose which ads to block. Just type ads and banner to the filter, that takes care of most ads ;) Motorola V180 Sony Vaio vgn-b3vp Athlon 64 3200+ & 1gb ram (pc-3200 400mhz) & radeon 9700 Playstation Portable v2.0 (+.[____]�:�) Canon Eos 350D kit [ + quote]
DVDBack23 (Staff Member) 20 October 2005 10:43
Arcanix, Actually, i do have the Adblock plugin enabled yet still get the pop-ups from aD. Go figure ;) Here at college... Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook P4 2.4 Processor 640 MB Crucial Ram Logitech X-530 5.1 Speakers Call of Duty online name: [IKG]ThaPinkPantha DVD Media Im Using: Sony08d1 DVD-R and MCC Verb DVD-R Ultimate BitComet Guide http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/234097 How To remove all Spyware/Adware/BHO/Malware http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/245859 How to Rip Audio from a DVD and into WAV/MP3 http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/239698 PAL to NTSC Conversion Guide: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/220673 [ + quote]
arcanix (AfterDawn Addict) 20 October 2005 10:45
Yeah, I'm speaking about ads, not pop-ups. I have FireFox with adblock, zonealarm pro and peerguardian 2. Haven't seen ads or popups in ages. Motorola V180 Sony Vaio vgn-b3vp Athlon 64 3200+ & 1gb ram (pc-3200 400mhz) & radeon 9700 Playstation Portable v2.0 (+.[____]�:�) Canon Eos 350D kit [ + quote]
borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 20 October 2005 12:31
I just have to say i am glad to see someone making a dent in microsoft's monoply even though its a small one :) Well done to Mozilla. The should come up with a simpler OS and then we will see what happens... :) [ + quote]
bernardus (Inactive) 20 October 2005 14:13
I really like FireFox in many many ways, but its customer service is almost non-existent and it will be the major reason it will not growl. [ + quote]
PANIC567 (Junior Member) 20 October 2005 15:20
why would you need custormer assistance [ + quote]
PANIC567 (Junior Member) 20 October 2005 15:27
why would you need custormer assistance [ + quote]
j0j081 (Junior Member) 20 October 2005 18:30
I was a big FireFox fan but I've moved on to Opera now. seems much nicer to me with the exception of the inability to add many plugins. totally free to! [ + quote]
bernardus (Inactive) 20 October 2005 20:51
I needed customer assistance for several reasons. It wouldn't import my favorites from another service and it froze up on my several times, as well as a couple of other problems [ + quote]
DaOsT (Senior Member) 20 October 2005 22:35
congrats to mozilla:) ::LivE ForeveR OR DiE TryiN!!::....::DonT FinD US WE WilL FinD YoU::.. ChecK OuT ThE PenguiN GamE AnD PosT YouR HighesT DistancE ON ThE ForuM http://www.gazholland.co.uk [ + quote]
nrautava (Inactive) 21 October 2005 6:00
Well done and congrats to Mofilla FireFox [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 21 October 2005 6:02
Glitched (Inactive) 21 October 2005 17:24
wow 100million,i downloaded 1 too but i prefer opera [ + quote]