OT: One for the Firefox Fans

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 30 May 08 10:42 am

G'day

They are shooting for the Guinness Book of Records record for the most downloads in a 24 hour period. If you are interested, you can just click on the image to pledge to download Firefox on the day.

Andrew

mtrax · Post by **mtrax** » 30 May 08 10:44 am

download of what image?, I assume this has something to do with the pending FF3 release next month?

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 30 May 08 11:00 am

mtrax wrote:download of what image?, I assume this has something to do with the pending FF3 release next month?

The image in my posting is a LINK (click on it) to the Spread Firefox page where you can pledge to download Firefox on the big day. They will keep you informed as to when that will happen.

Does that make sense?

Andrew

mtrax · Post by **mtrax** » 30 May 08 11:12 am

sorry my Adblock filtered that image out.. now I see it.

mtrax · Post by **mtrax** » 30 May 08 11:16 am

so what number are they aiming for?

Sons of Callum · Post by **Sons of Callum** » 30 May 08 11:25 am

Have pledged that i will download on that day!

I hope they get a few more from Australia

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 30 May 08 11:56 am

mtrax wrote:so what number are they aiming for?

I don't know, but when I check this morning there was only 2079 Australian pledges which seemed low to me.

Andrew

Post by **caughtatwork** » 30 May 08 12:05 pm

I'm already running RC1, but I pledged to get it on the day.
Hope their bandwidth is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 30 May 08 12:45 pm

Aushiker wrote:
mtrax wrote:so what number are they aiming for?
I don't know, but when I check this morning there was only 2079 Australian pledges which seemed low to me.

It does, doesn't it? And I'd expect more from NZ, too, given that a significant code contributor is a Kiwi who returned and now works from there.

The really surprising number to me is Nigeria. Less than 20! And I know from my spam filter that EVERYONE there is a)online and b)holding a fortune that just needs my bank account to get out of the country!

Richary · Post by **Richary** » 30 May 08 3:49 pm

I've been running the final beta on the home machine for a few weeks now. Quite nice. I like the better detail you get on previous things you have been to when you start typing in the web address of something.

Mr Router · Post by **Mr Router** » 30 May 08 4:44 pm

3097 @ 15.55

Mix · Post by **Mix** » 30 May 08 5:25 pm

I would, but I just changed to Flock.

CaleD · Post by **CaleD** » 30 May 08 8:49 pm

Has Firefox overtaken IE yet in terms of how many use it?

Post by **CraigRat** » 30 May 08 9:27 pm

CaleD wrote:Has Firefox overtaken IE yet in terms of how many use it?

Not even close, mainly for the reason that IE is on every computer that has windows, which is approx 90-95% of the market.

Among the more tech savvy communities, FF usage is quite high, but still somewhat behind.

FYI On this site, the stats for the last month show (forgive the formatting):

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1.   Internet Explorer    18,050     57.71% 	
2.     Firefox                          9,914      31.70%
3.     Konqueror                    1,030      3.29%
4.     Safari                           988         3.16%
5.     Mozilla                          957         3.06%

And heres the O.S spread:

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1. 	Windows	27,263 	87.16% 	
2. 	Linux  	2,334 	7.46%
3. 	Macintosh     1,614 	5.16%

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 30 May 08 11:57 pm

So when is pledge day?