Firefox Hits 1 Billion Downloads
PrintMozilla is reveling in the phenomenal success of Firefox. The overwhelming response from internet users has established Firefox as the second most popular browser in the world. Now, Mozilla has added a fresh piece of notional silverware, marking yet another real world triumph, to its imaginary trophy cabinet. Mozilla announced earlier in the day that Firefox has surpassed the 1 billion downloads mark.
Half of those downloads have come in the past 17 months, a period that witnessed the launch of Firefox 3 and 3.5. Though savants expect Firefox to benefit from Microsoft’s decision to release Windows 7 with a browser ballot in Europe, Firefox architect Mike Connor doesn’t share their views. “The choice [when installing Windows] would be weird. There's no good UI [user interface] for that,” Connor had told PC Pro in an interview earlier this year.
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fnordfnord
August 05, 2009 at 1:08am
I upgraded to Firefox 3.5.2 this week. My saved passwords disappeared. I googled for an answer, but nothing worked or the insructions were too vague.
I rolled back to my previous verion 3.0.13.
cronjob
July 31, 2009 at 10:20pm
...1 billion downloads and still in the land of beta.
I kid.
but, honestly who cares when your/my cpu is pegged at 100% every time I exit out of 3.5.1 under XP?
nekollx
August 03, 2009 at 10:05am
is it Firefox or your 10 year old OS?
Think about it...
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Kulmanari
August 01, 2009 at 6:55am
FireFox works great except for a slow memory leak that builds up
over time. The browser isn't directly causing your CPU to hit 100%,
it's more indirectly caused by your lack of Ram which makes the
Pagefile get used heavily. The most I've had FireFox use is 800MB of
Ram, but my 4GB system isn't bothered by it and the CPU sits idle
around 2-7% with FireFox open with multiple tabs (MPC, Netflix,
YouTube, etc).Core 2 Duo 2.26Ghz, 4GB, Vista x64
cronjob
August 01, 2009 at 4:43pm
I have 1.5 Gig of RAM and an overclocked Sempron 3400+. If I leave ff 3.5.x open for several minutes (or longer) I have to kill it with task manager. Otherwise, if I forget, my cpu gets pegged at 100% apoun exiting and stays that way. Once task manager came up, I monitored the performance chart for 10 minutes. It showed no signs of stopping, so I killed the firefox.exe task.
If Mozilla considers this to be O.K., then I will either go back to 3.0 (which works perfectly for me) or run Opera. IE8 is not so bad but, since I run firefox on linux it's easier to keep them synced if I just run firefox.
I know my PC is old but, anything that can crush Doom3 should be more than good enough to run a web browzer.
MeTo
August 01, 2009 at 8:56am
I have 3 gb DDr 2 Vista home pre 32 and it is a slight slow down when i exit FF and try to run CCleaner. I have to wait a couple seconds. No big deal.
n0ctis
July 31, 2009 at 7:13pm
Congrats!
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.: vires et honos :.
majorsuave
July 31, 2009 at 5:06pm
I wonder how many people it took to download it a Billion times.
I must have downloaded it dozens of times myself on different home PCs, office PCs, plus all the updates before Firefox started to update itself.
mattman059
July 31, 2009 at 6:41pm
I would hope they would only report Unique downloads...
but in any case i am glad to be 1 in a billion :P
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