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Firefox 1.5 'smashes' 1.0 download stats
ZDnet ^ | 12-1-2005 | Ingrid Marson

Posted on 12/01/2005 5:47:28 AM PST by soccer_maniac

"Wow, in just one day, Firefox 1.5 has already been downloaded more than 1.5 million times. That smashes our 1.0 first day downloads by half a million," said Dotzler in his blog. "If you haven't downloaded Firefox 1.5, get it while it's hot!"

This demand appears to be continuing, according to a blog post from Chris Beard, the vice-president of products at Mozilla.

"There are now more than two million people enjoying a better Web experience with Firefox 1.5. Demand continues to be high, greatly exceeding what we saw last year with the release of Firefox 1.0," said Beard.

Firefox 1.5 has a tough target to beat though, as Firefox 1.0 was downloaded at a high rate over a number of months — it passed the 10 million downloads in December, just over a month after its release. In May it passed the 50-million-download mark and celebrated its 100 millionth download in October.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.zdnet.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: browser; browserwars; firefox; firefox15; ie; microsoft; mozilla; netscape; opensource
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To: PCBMan
you need to uninstall adblock and install adblock plus. It will elimate that problem.

An enhanced version of Adblock 0.5.2.039, AdBlock Plus 0.5.10 made by mcm_ham can be found here: Date: 2005-10-23

Compatibility: (firefox09-small.png 0.7 - 1.6) (all-small.png 1.4 - 1.8)

- Whitelisting, prefix your filters with "@@" to allow an item normally blocked by another filter through. Credit to OneStop.

- Synchronization (import) with filter file on website or hard drive using URL. Can be synchronized manually or automatically.

- Ability to block DIV sections allowing a much greater range of images to be blocked. Credit to Rueschi.

- Can hide ads on a per site basis instead of globally. Now an option under Adblock's menu. Changes: * New context menu options like cut, copy, paste and select all and ability to select multiple filters. * Can now sync with multiple filtersets by seperating the paths with a '|' character. * Syntax highlighting for white filters. * Seperated Site Blocking and Site Whitelisting from filter list to its own UI. * Added support for background images. * Allow editing of the filter that's displayed as blocking an image under the Ad-blockable items dialog. * Added Brazilian & Polish locale (thanks to Sergio Abreu, Alessandro Nakamuta & Teo) * Various bug fixes.

INSTALL

21 posted on 12/01/2005 9:14:00 AM PST by Xenophobic Alien (Kerry lost. Please take that stupid bumper sticker off your car!)
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To: PCBMan
While your at it get

Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.6

Author: Reid Rankin, Michael McDonald Version: 0.2.6 Size: 39KB Date: 2005-10-26 Compatibility: (firefox09-small.png 0.7 - 1.6) (all-small.png 1.4 - 1.8) Requires: Adblock Homepage

This extension allows you to automatically keep up to date with G's latest filterset. Given that this is the first release you should be prepared for bugs and know how to handle them. If you want a stable version then wait for the first non-beta release after it has been thoroughly tested.

Features: * Automatically checks for later versions of Filterset.G filters every 4-7 days and downloads them if they're newer. * Can optionally synchronize with Filterset.G-Whitelist-Beta, requires Adblock Plus 0.5.9 or higher. * Ability to define your own filters that persist between updates. * User filter list management available from context menu.

INSTALL

22 posted on 12/01/2005 9:24:16 AM PST by Xenophobic Alien (Kerry lost. Please take that stupid bumper sticker off your car!)
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To: Xenophobic Alien

Success! Thank you!


23 posted on 12/01/2005 9:30:25 AM PST by PCBMan (Downsized seven times in the last nine years, damn right I'm grumpy)
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To: soccer_maniac

I was using it yesterday. I think it will replace Safari as my prime browser. Has some pretty cool extensions.


24 posted on 12/01/2005 9:45:13 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: soccer_maniac
All of my extensions have been updated for 1.5

Actually, I had to manually update all my extensions and themes to make Firefox 1.5 work again. Easy if you have broadband like me, but time-wasting if you have a dial-up connection.

25 posted on 12/01/2005 11:24:18 AM PST by RayChuang88
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To: Mr. K
what are these pregrammers living on ? who buys them food?

Some of it is people doing things in their spare time. Aside from that, they have corporate sponsors donating programming time, plus Mozilla.org is a 501(c) non-profit that takes donations (tax deductible!).

26 posted on 12/01/2005 12:26:00 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Mr. K

I believe they make money off of the little Google search box in the upper right hand corner of the browser.


27 posted on 12/01/2005 10:57:28 PM PST by JTN ("We must win the War on Drugs by 2003." - Dennis Hastert, Feb. 25 1999)
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To: JTN

So internet search is the future? Feed the borg and it will feed you?


28 posted on 12/02/2005 6:58:01 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Tribune7
1.5 has a pretty bad bug that pops up with OS X 10.2.8.

When you hit one of the drop down triangles like the one by the back arrow Firefox hangs and you have to force quit.

Quite a few people with 10.2.8 are having the same problem.

29 posted on 12/03/2005 4:05:59 PM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: avg_freeper

Using 10.4. Seems a tad slow but I like the search function better than Safari (and I did add a pile of extensions -- it's 9:09 a.m. in Tokyo.)


30 posted on 12/03/2005 4:09:02 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Xenophobic Alien; mhking; JoJo Gunn; Petronski; Senator Bedfellow
Someone created an extension that just fixed the problem for me.
31 posted on 12/14/2005 10:34:43 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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