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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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
Maxthon/Opera/IE are either commercially based, based on Internet Explorer, or not open-source. Maxthon doesn't have even remotely the same user/support/development base as Firefox does, and when all is said and done, its just the way IE should have been in the first place.
Firefox isn't just about the browser. It is the first ever open-source project that has truly become "main stream", representing what could be a new era in how software is developed and deployed to us as consumers.
In no way an I trying to down-play other alternative browsers like Maxthon. The amount of work, time and effort that went into making Firefox what it is, completely eclipses anything that Maxthon (or Opera for that matter) has done up to now.
Last edited by 18091 on 12 Dec 2004 - 20:04
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