25 million in 99 days: Do you all ever sleep?
on Wed, 02/16/2005 - 21:14Spreading FirefoxOn February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone.
Thank you.
Thank you for helping us take this product from 25 to 25 million, from our little corner of the world to yours, from the technically elite to Karen and Rimone.
With a minimal set of tools—an affiliate system, a small donations fundraising system, blogs, galleries, forums, and the good old human larynx—you all are spreading Firefox to a quarter of a million people a day. More than 500,000 sites now link to Firefox according to Google—a fivefold increase from six months ago.
What was just a small flame 100 days ago has since exploded into a phenomenal demonstration of the power of open source. Tens of thousands of devoted users and fans are a powerful and capable force of change. We have created a special commemorative image if you would like to mark this milestone on your own site.
In celebration of this 25 million downloads milestone, and in celebration of each and every one of you, the Mozilla Store is offering a 25% discount on Firefox t-shirts, polo shirts (non-launch), plush toys and hats. This discount is available now and will last until 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, February 17.
As an additional "token" of our appreciation, we are also pleased to announce that the kind folks over at CoinsForAnything have offered to provide us with 100 free collectors' coins to commemmorate this milestone in Internet history. We have provided a mockup above of how these coins will look. We will be awarding a quarter of these coins to the top 25 most active SpreadFirefox members, where "most active" is defined by the number and quality of the member's posts (as rated by the community), how many comments he's posted, whether or not he has engaged the community by rating other users' posts, and how much affiliate traffic he has generated for Firefox. We have placed much greater emphasis on how a member has helped grow the sfx community than on how much traffic he has sent to Firefox.
If you made the "most active" list, you will be notified later this week via e-mail or (if you did not provide us with the address) private message on SpreadFirefox.
The remaining 75 coins will be distributed according to a different set of criteria over the coming weeks, so if you don't get an e-mail but feel like you should have, don't despair.
Thanks again for your tireless efforts, and many thanks to CoinsForAnything for supporting our community. Onward to 50 million!
Design by jamey boje
—Blake, on behalf of the sfx team
