Firefox hits 50,000,000

[stevelam]

Firefox hit 50,000,000 downloads today at 14:58GMT

[Darius Wey]

Firefox hit 50,000,000 downloads today at 14:58GMT

Pity no one is swimming (http://opera.com/swim/) from the Mozilla division. That I'd like to see! :P

[Jason Dunn]

Firefox hit 50,000,000 downloads today at 14:58GMT

If they had a proper patching mechanism that updated a few core files intead of the lunacy they have now where you're forced to re-download the entire thing and install it from scratch, they wouldn't have hit 50 million so fast. Don't get me wrong, I like Firefox, but it irritates me that every time I "patch" it I get another instance of it in the Add/Remote programs list. That's utterly stupid. :roll:

[Ryan Joseph]

Firefox hit 50,000,000 downloads today at 14:58GMT

I was at my computer and watching it happen as it hit the mark at 11:58 EST. It was very exciting! Totally made my day. :mrgreen:

[myrampar]

I agree with Jason. They definitely need to change the patching process. I wonder what percentage of the downloads are unique, first-time downloads vs downloads to update the existing version.

I think it would also be interesting to know the percentage of people that download Firefox and actually stick to using it as their primary browser.
I downloaded it and gave it a try, but I still use IE. It just seems like there are fewer instances of a web page not displaying properly in IE vs Firefox.

[Darius Wey]

I was at my computer and watching it happen as it hit the mark at 11:58 EST. It was very exciting! Totally made my day. :mrgreen:

Ryan, that's a quality sign of uber geekness. :lol:

[Ryan Joseph]

Ryan, that's a quality sign of uber geekness. :lol:


...........And? :mrgreen:

[Darius Wey]

Ryan, that's a quality sign of uber geekness. :lol:

...........And? :mrgreen:

I know, I know! Funny that comment was made from an uber geek himself. :P

[stevelam]

Firefox hit 50,000,000 downloads today at 14:58GMT

I was at my computer and watching it happen as it hit the mark at 11:58 EST. It was very exciting! Totally made my day. :mrgreen:

So was I. It was good to know that i managed to get exactely the same time as the guys over in US (once i converted the thing to GMT then to BST)

Also to patch if you go tools-options-advanced then click check now it should patch rather than re-download!! :lol:

[OSUKid7]

If they had a proper patching mechanism that updated a few core files intead of the lunacy they have now where you're forced to re-download the entire thing and install it from scratch, they wouldn't have hit 50 million so fast. Don't get me wrong, I like Firefox, but it irritates me that every time I "patch" it I get another instance of it in the Add/Remote programs list. That's utterly stupid. :roll:
Hmm, that's odd, I just checked, and it's only listed once in my Add/Remove Programs list. Some times I've re-downloaded and installed Firefox, and sometimes I've updated through the Firefox update dialog. Of the many programs I have, Firefox is really one of the easiest to keep updated, in my opinion. Most of my extensions are even updated automatically (well, when I chose to install the new versions) through the Firefox updater thing.

[Darius Wey]

Hmm, that's odd, I just checked, and it's only listed once in my Add/Remove Programs list. Some times I've re-downloaded and installed Firefox, and sometimes I've updated through the Firefox update dialog. Of the many programs I have, Firefox is really one of the easiest to keep updated, in my opinion. Most of my extensions are even updated automatically (well, when I chose to install the new versions) through the Firefox updater thing.

The Update Firefox dialog is great, and it works well for extensions and what not, but I also get the same problem with the Add/Remove programs list. To avoid having multiple Firefox entries listed, you need to uninstall the previous version and install the new version. Otherwise, a straight reinstallation will create multiple entries. I have 4 Firefox and 3 Thunderbird entries listed in my Add/Remove programs list. Fortunately, if you uninstall the latest entry, the rest become null entries, but it still is a minor annoyance whichever way you look at it. :roll: