The Mozilla Foundation has announced that its Firefox browser has been downloaded over 10 million times in the last 31 days. On average, Firefox has been downloaded 4 times per second since its release on November 9th. The Foundation originally estimated 10 million downloads to be reached after 100 days of public availability.
As Firefox users continue to swell in number, many are wondering what became of the planned New York Times advertisement. In an interview published earlier this week, Mozilla volunteer Rob Davis commented that "It's taken a little longer than we'd originally planned," and that he expected the advertisement to run somewhere between the middle of December and Christmas.
The next major release of Firefox is scheduled for March of 2005. Firefox 1.1 (Dubbed "Deer Run") will be the end-result of merging the Aviary (Fx 1.0) branch with the main Mozilla code trunk. In the meantime, Mozilla plans to release a new version of Firefox for mobile devices dubbed "Minimo". Firefox "Minimo" is expected to compete with "Opera for Mobile" sometime this coming January.
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As Firefox users continue to swell in number, many are wondering what became of the planned New York Times advertisement. In an interview published earlier this week, Mozilla volunteer Rob Davis commented that "It's taken a little longer than we'd originally planned," and that he expected the advertisement to run somewhere between the middle of December and Christmas.
The next major release of Firefox is scheduled for March of 2005. Firefox 1.1 (Dubbed "Deer Run") will be the end-result of merging the Aviary (Fx 1.0) branch with the main Mozilla code trunk. In the meantime, Mozilla plans to release a new version of Firefox for mobile devices dubbed "Minimo". Firefox "Minimo" is expected to compete with "Opera for Mobile" sometime this coming January.
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Everyone is so concerned with MS monopolizing the web, or seeing Firefox as a competitor, that nobody's really considered the possibility that in ten years, the world wide web may be obsolete.
the point of my comment was that IE in fundamentaly needed for the growth of firefox so stripping IE from windows would hinder its growth amongst the mass.
Really? If Linux becomes the dominant OS, maybe it *will* happen.
And why would they need to integrate FF into their own OS? There is an 'OS' which already comes with FF! Some distros anyway... It's called "Linux".
I seriously hope you don't imply that Windows will be dominant till dooms day or something?
But hey, Firefox shouldn't become THE standard browser, it should be a bunch of browsers that all support standards well. If we just have one browser, then it's back to having a monoculture again. And a monoculture, open-source or not, can only be bad.
And that, my friends, is the underlying truth to having a secure internet experience for the majority of casual home users!
IE on Windows Safari on Mac.
I tired KnoppixLinux and I liked it has Konqueror integrated.
What does this mean? What advantages does it bring?
The changes that were made in Aviary have just been implemented in the stability-focused trunk. Now they will work out all the resulting bugs, make any feature changes, package it, and release Firefox 1.1
So far, these are some of the improvements and fixes:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.1.html
... and it's still a quite long time before Firefox 1.1 is feature complete.
Expect that list to grow over time.
Everything Mozilla creates, (Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Camino, even the non-browser programs like Thunderbird and Sunbird) is based off the Gecko engine that they made. Netscape 6-7 also use this engine, as they are based off of the Mozilla suite.
Now back when they made it, Mozilla.org wasn't owned by the recently created Mozilla Foundation, it was owned by Netscape as a site for open-source developers. So Gecko was created there, by some volunteers, but mostly Netscape enployees.
seriously, i dont think that there are this many user of firefox. for example, I have downloaded it about five times because I accidentially keep on deleting it. I dont use firefox, but I continuously force myself to use it. I dont like it, nor do i dislike it. I just know that I like IE better.
STV
Or are you just that desperate to come up with a pathetic reason to post?
No, but it means it has received lot of attention and web browser statistics are showing more and more are using it. It also means it is one of, if not THE, most downloaded open source projects in such a short time span. In short, it means the Mozilla Foundation has all reasons to be proud of their hard work.
Odds are there are a lot more people using firefox than those that downloaded it from the mozilla foundation. Examples:
1. I downloaded the Firefox installer once from the MozFo at work and used it to install firefox on ten desktops.
2. Firefox came with the OS I use at home, so I didn't download that copy from the MozFo.
Thats 11 PCs running Firefox, and only 1 Firefox download.
EDIT: That was meant for the post above the one above mine. That long one.
Have decided that I DO NOT LIKE Firefox and have removed it from all my PCs. Trying Maxthon (formerly My IE2) now and it seems OK.
Wait a second is STV the same person as SVT, I am confused???!
Actually I have downloaded it once and Installed it on 20+ peoples computers, as I fix peoples PC's as a part time job.
(I want free porn..."Brainfox has read your mind, *goes to porn website*"
Nothing beats IE in terms of Malware. IE opens the doors to get c0ned with ActiveX's "leetness" to install crap without user notice and the power to not display webpages that have followed standards
Nothing beats IE in terms of stability. It crashes much more than Firefox which has only been in dev for a while as opposed to IE.
Nothing beats IE in terms of innovation. It hasn't bringed anything new to the users for years other than critical patches that prevents a hacker to gain control using a hole found in IE. When a hole is found in FF, The Mozilla foundation work on it immediatly and provide the necessary patch in no-time
Nothing beats IE in terms of features. Without a tool like the Google bar, enjoy all the popups of the world and enjoy opening 1 IE per website and not see the benefits of Tabbed browsing which is the best solution to remove clustering of programs.
<snip - trolling >>>
Last edited by 3351 on 12 Dec 2004 - 06:54
That's the REALITY whether you like it or not and this is why Firefox has gained so much popularity and has already overcome other browser alternatives.
If I was trolling, I'd say that IE SUX cause it SUX COX with a PERIOD but I have stated all the facts that everybody have heard a million times and, for some reason, some people still ignore these.
And you're right, that is reality for all of us. Firefox represents a new paradigm shift in the computing world and if you don't go with the flow, you will be left behind. Firefox is like a revolution where existing technologies become obsolete and the new age of safer, faster and more standardized technologies take over. These paradigms empower us with more freedom to innovate and to work together in an open source way. It's a whole new way of thinking and it's happening now. It's what one would call, "Taking Back The Web."
Last edited by 52 on 12 Dec 2004 - 15:52
You hit the nail square on the head.
(And I love the word bringed
I can understand where they're coming from. Microsoft has never been the nice, happy, friendly, "we love the community" type of company. They have a long history of controversial tactics and basically screwing people over.
Read into it sometime, then you'll understand why they bash IE so much.
em_te,
re-read the last statement I made of IE. I clearly said "Without a tool like the google bar, enjoy ..." You can read the rest.
SquareSoft0,
There is a difference between criticizing and bashing. What I have done is criticizing the current state of IE in contrast with Firefox. One is evolving, the other is just filling up its holes.
Ok now that it's settled, for the rest of you who think that I'm trolling, I only have one thing to say:
Prove me wrong. Show me how IE is better than Firefox and I'll stfu. Otherwise, I'l stand on my ground.
Since Netscape's defeat by M$'s IE for browser popularity/dominance, IE hasn't evolved much. I'm curious why a huge @$$ company like M$ does not improve, possibly, the most used internet tool in the western world by average joes, IE. There is NO valid excuse to not improve a browser. Sure once in a while we see security fixes but that's far from enough. A company like Microsoft shouldn't have any problem at improving IE in terms of security AND features.
Last edited by 52 on 12 Dec 2004 - 07:26
I can't. I think it's reckless for someone to be criticizing something without a valid claims; companies not supporting community is not a valid claim.
But that is.
I'm a realistic firefox user.
Both companies showed progress in their browsers back then. Now M$ doesn't seem to care as much as back then.
IE has one key successfull thing and it's the name, Internet Explorer. You ask an average joe whats the internet, he will say "Its that blue icon of the E!" like clonk said. This is very true. That's why when you talk to them about a browser which can enhance their experience, they might ask "but can it do what IE does".
SquareSoft0,
If your preference is insecurity then go right ahead but many already got fedup of the imperfections of IE that FF has overcome. I'm not saying FF is perfect, far from that but at least you can be rest assured that most threats on the net are applied only for IE users and that you are safe and headache-free.
How many times have I had friends telling me they got a zillions crap installed on their pc cause they use IE? I lost count but all of this is a waste of time to re-setup everything whenever they screw up.
I just hate your preachy misinformations and blatent bashing of IE.
What about the Information Bar in IE? It was an important enough feature that Firefox had to copy it.
Now that's a real successful open source project!
Guy speaks the truth that everybody, who isn't a zealot, have already discovered and agreed on.
Say what you want, the post was factual. IE is full of holes, there are many published vulnerabilities still unpatched.
As for standards support, anyone who has attempted to make a webpage work for anything beyond IE has noticed IE is 'different' than the others.
Nothing has completesupport for HTML 4 and CSS, not IE, not even Firefox. (Maybe Firefox, I'm not sure). But Firefox is a lot better at HTML 4 and CSS 2 then Internet Explorer is, Mozilla and the W3C have a couple examples of this.
Also, adapting to new standards is more important. In Firefox 1.1, there will be much better CSS 3 support, and they're also implementing SVG natively. Which, IMHO, is absolutely awesome now that there's a viable alternative to Flash.