Posted on 10/19/2005 8:13:16 PM PDT by Panerai
st shy of Firefox's first birthday party, the Mozilla Foundation celebrated the 100 millionth download of its Web browser Wednesday.
Mozilla has seen steady adoption of its browser since its release last November. After a somewhat higher download rate immediately following its release, the browser has settled into between 200,000 and 300,000 downloads a day, said Asa Dotzler, the Mozilla liaison to the SpreadFirefox community.
"This is a great milestone. Our massive, worldwide community of grassroots marketers and users--not to mention the developers--have helped to put out a product that's really kicking butt," he said.
Firefox has enjoyed an enthusiastic user base the likes of which few companies in the tech industry experience. Thousands of volunteers help spread the word about the browser, participate in free support forums and discussion lists, and scour its code for flaws.
But the browser hasn't been without its problems. The number of reported security holes in Firefox continues to grow, and Symantec recently released a hotly contested report claiming that Mozilla browsers saw more reported vulnerabilities than Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the first half of 2005. In what could be construed as a shift in attitude toward the browser, its marketing Web site, SpreadFirefox.com, was brought down by hackers just last week.
However, the open nature of the Mozilla browsers allows the group to respond to new security threats quickly, and these developments haven't stunted adoption. If anything, Dotzler said, the company has seen a slight uptick in the past two months, which he attributed to new interest in other browsers and a renewed buzz surrounding the upcoming Firefox 1.5 release. If announcements of new security issues affected consumer adoption, it did so in both directions, Dotzler said.
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$5 x 100,000,000 = $500,000,000
Perhaps math wasn't YOUR strong subject.
It is in BBCode language, which this forum doesn't recognize. There are separate submenus for BBCode, HTML, and XHTML. If you can't see the submenu options for HTML, click Settings and check the box for Enable HTML. If you don't post on any other forums, you can probably uncheck all the other options to eliminate the confusion.
Hope that makes sense, it is a bit confusing that the name of the extension (BBCode) is the same as one of the languages it supports (BBCode).
No worries, I read it the first way and in any event I shouldn't have posted a snippy reply--I apologize too!
And have never patched it (which requires another full download) once?
You're still at home stuck using your dad's computer? That would explain a lot.
When I patch firefox its with a yum update of off fedora. I dont download updates..
Consistency has some value, though, don't you think? I think it is the artificial colors in the koolaid. Affects your nervous system and makes you cranky.
At least he has an excuse. As for you other boys, LMAO
OKI've got it . . . up to a point.
At this point BBCode will do most of what I already know how to do, but not all. I'm a consistent user of "blockquote" and I was attracted to BBCode when I was shown a highlighted box which I didn't know how to do. I see a "syntax highlight" option, but none of the three submenus under that - javascript, CSS, and XML codes - seem to have any effect . . . and I don't even see a way of delineating paragraphs!
- first
- second
Not that it's that hard to do via typing <p>
Got it; nice. I don't suppose there's a way to assign a custom tag to a key or function key???
Not that I know of, but I've wanted that for a while too.
</sarcasm>Things look good!
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Glad to see it is working for you.
Verrryy interressting!
You're still at home stuck using your dad's computer?
Yes. I am after all, a poor college sophomore living at home and attending classes full-time (15 credits) at the local university. I've said this a few times already.
When I was up at UW-Stout last year, I had my own laptop (HP Compaq nc6000), covered as a part of tuition. But since I've had to turn that in when I transferred back home, I haven't had the money to replace it. So, I've used the computer at home, as well as the ones on campus.
That would explain a lot.
Can you say 7% increase in tuition, plus several hundred dollars in books? There are more important things for my money to go. It'd be really nice to have my own laptop, but I just can't afford it.
Maybe I'll get one when I get my Associate's Degree this spring and before I transfer to finish my baccalaureate degree.
In light of this, and with all due respect sir, I find your post quite rude.
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