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Friday, September 17th, 2004 at 11:01 AM | 5 commentsI almost always root for the underdog. Go foxie! Dog? Fox? No pun intended.
In seven days, the Spread Firefox campaign has gotten over 700,000 people to download it. Its goal is to get one million in ten days. A million people is a drop in the bucket when you think of how many people use a browser, but it is hard to comprehend 100,000 people downloading and installing a new browser in one day. Maybe not. BusinessWeek provides the browser numbers.
For Web designers, FirefoxIE has been updated to work with Firefox 1.0PR. See the release.
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5 comments
I have been using FF only since August (Version 9.2), and I have upgraded each time an opportunity has arisen to do so. I am currently using FF 1.0PR, and I could not be more pleased! The support forums are awesome as usual for assisting with issues, but the browser has been remarkably problem-free for me. I am so determined never to open IE again of my own volition that I have chosen NetScape as my backup browser.
I am blown away by the utter stability and incredible functionality of FireFox. Even with few extensions installed, it does all I need it to do, and then some.
If only that were possible Karen - I have been using Firefox for about a year now, and sadly I have to fire up Internet Explorer occasionally because there are some sites that will not work in Firefox - presumably they are using IE specific extensions that create the problem.
One of the sites I have to access is a credit card site - it will not allow me to login using Firefox. Similar story with my telephone service provider (SBC).
<rant>My other pet peeve is browser sniffers that tell me I have to use a modern browser such as IE6, or Netscape 6+ - I am using a modern browser, you’re just doing a bad job of supporting it! </rant>
You might wanna fix your link to FirefoxIE. Right now it’s linking to .com instead of .net, which is not the right site. Not to nitpick, but a less resourceful user who wants to learn about it may not be able to find it.
Wow, it’s amazing how fast people are downloading Mozilla Firefox!
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