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Over 100 million Firefox downloads

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

Written by: James Delahunty @ 20 Oct 2005 3:10

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• arcanix

  Quite accurate percentage they use. How do they even measure these things? Do they just check every visitors browsers on a site?

  20.10.2005 04:34 #1

• Lethal_B

  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!
  
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  20.10.2005 09:47 #2

• DVDBack23

  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!!
  

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  20.10.2005 10:25 #3

• arcanix

  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 ;)
  

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  20.10.2005 10:32 #4

• DVDBack23

  Arcanix,
  
  Actually, i do have the Adblock plugin enabled yet still get the pop-ups from aD. Go figure ;)
  

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  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

  20.10.2005 10:43 #5

• arcanix

  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.
  

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  20.10.2005 10:45 #6

• borhan9

  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...
  
  :)

  20.10.2005 12:31 #7

• bernardus

  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.

  20.10.2005 14:13 #8

• PANIC567

  why would you need custormer assistance

  20.10.2005 15:20 #9

• PANIC567

  why would you need custormer assistance

  20.10.2005 15:27 #10

• j0j081

  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!

  20.10.2005 18:30 #11

• bernardus

  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

  20.10.2005 20:51 #12

• DaOsT

  congrats to mozilla:)
  

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  20.10.2005 22:35 #13

• nrautava

  Well done and congrats to Mofilla FireFox
  

  21.10.2005 06:00 #14

• Glitched

  wow 100million,i downloaded 1 too but i prefer opera
  

  
  
  
  

  21.10.2005 17:24 #15