Fahrenheit 1 Million: The temp at which the web explodes

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on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 19:47Spreading Firefox

In just under 100 hours, we have smashed through our one million download campaign--with 6 days still to go! This is the fastest adoption rate we have ever experienced, higher than every previous Firefox release. But it's not time to relax our efforts. How soon can we break through 2 million? We'll have more information on a new campaign on Monday.

In the mean time, let us—and the world— know what you think of Firefox Preview Release. Drop us a review at c|net, BetaNews (win mac linux) or ZDNet. We'll incorporate the feedback as we drive to 1.0.

One last thing: remember to sign up for the sfx newsletter and be the first one to hear when we smash through our goals. People who receive the newsletter will also receive special sneak previews of future sfx campaigns.

--Blake, on behalf of the sfx team

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It's wonderfull !

Submitted by hrdn on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 21:20.

It's wonderfull !

I hope the next challenge be more "grandiose" ;-)

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GMail Annoyances

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/25/2004 - 20:41.

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the gmail plugin works fine f

Submitted by poedguy on Sun, 09/26/2004 - 08:37.

the gmail plugin works fine for me, autologin works

#1,000,000 Hurts

Submitted by durbanbudz on Fri, 09/24/2004 - 05:10.

Ok, I am kinda feeling a little bit hurt here, I get told I'm the one millionth user by a pop up screen, and that was it? Whats with that? Maybe it's just me, my first time being the million marker, but not even an email!
If the event was worth keeping track of, and promoting, then #1000,000 should carry a little more weight than a mere pop up, wouldn't you think?
Anyway, enough venting, the browser is way I am here and it works for me, great job there guys and gals!
The future looks bright for the Moz team and their efforts are appreciated, so Thank You.

lol congrats, I was around 10

Submitted by TiGG on Sat, 02/26/2005 - 23:51.

lol congrats, I was around 10 mil :)

TiGG - FireFox Proxy

Hey, congratulations!

Submitted by factoryjoe on Tue, 09/28/2004 - 07:56.

Hey durbandudz,

Congratulations man and welcome to the Firefox community!

Chris
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Do the evolution.

Were you using Mozilla or FF

Submitted by zagman76 on Fri, 09/24/2004 - 06:48.

Were you using Mozilla or FF before upgrading to 1.0?

Wouldn't it have been funny if you were the 1,000,000th one and didn't know because you were using Moz and had the popup blocking turned on...

Browsers

Submitted by durbanbudz on Fri, 09/24/2004 - 16:13.

Actually I was using Windows Explorer with Windows XP Pro as the operating system. The two don't seem to be compatable because I've had a string of errors, lost files, freeze ups.....etc. so while reading through various different chat forums around the web I came across someone singing praises for Mozilla. I checked it out and everything looked ok, so I downloaded and have since been very glad that I did.
Cheers!

congrats!

Submitted by ahribernik on Fri, 09/24/2004 - 04:21.

Congratulations to the whole team. you guys are working on a wonderful product. The amount of praise and general adoption of the browser in the wild hopefully show you all how much hard work you have put in and that it indeed makes a difference.

Great Browser

Submitted by Nesseight on Fri, 09/24/2004 - 03:02.

Even since the beta's, Firefox has been the best browser I have ever used. Malicious programs don't miraculously install themselves like with MicroS**t Internet Exploiter, and pages actually look right in Firefox unlike some other competitor's browsers.

There are two kinds of people who browse the web: Those with Firefox, and computer illiterate people who just got their OEM computers pre-installed with the default junk who have yet to learn why Firefox is better and safer.

Keep up the good work, Firefox will be my browser of choice until something successfully replaces the WWW.

1'000'000 : Win32, Linux, Mac

Submitted by kisda on Thu, 09/23/2004 - 12:16.

How many percents are Win32, Linux and Mac-Downloads ?
Thank you for this nice Browser, im using it under Win32 and Linux.

Firefox: Millions of downloads

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Firefox + Yoper Linux

Submitted by ArchKaine on Thu, 09/23/2004 - 04:57.

If you haven't tried that combo yet, do so, I promise you'll enjoy it. You can't even tell that Firefox under KDE 3.3 isn't a native KDE application (at least under Keramik/Geramik). It's that seamless.

Get Yoper here.

ArchKaine
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Spread Firefox (Une histoire de plus d'un million de télécharg

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Firefox got 1,000,000 downloads in under 100 hours

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Go Firefox go !!!

Submitted by jim on Wed, 09/22/2004 - 01:35.

One day IE has irritated me very much and I've searched for another web browser. I've found the best - Mozilla Firefox !

I'll show Firefox to all my friends. I'm sure they will love it :)

Greetings for Polish Mozilla Team !!!

------------------------------
Mozilla and Thunderbird user

Firefox hits over 1 million downloads in just under 100 hours!

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Trackbacks broken?

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The trackback URL should be u

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Firefox on fire

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wait

Submitted by wesleyrobinson on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 22:31.

I downloaded this release twice, so you have to substract 1 from that number...

Firefox on fire

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Firefox 1.0PR gets well past 1,000,000 downloads in its first 4

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Congrats, now if only the dev

Submitted by CoSForums on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 17:42.

Congrats, now if only the devs could hear the voices of those who want a more stable product ( http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=blog/641 ), it'd totally rock!

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Firefox 1.0PR

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CONGRATULATIONS!

Submitted by civan on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 16:40.

One of the greatest marketing campaigns.

Mozilla Firefox for prezident!

And if you would release SVG version of the Logo... :)
And if you only would remove the focus rectangle when clicking on links...

It's wonderfull ! I hope t

Submitted by niko on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 13:13.

It's wonderfull !

I hope the next challenge be more "grandiose" ;-)

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Live bookmarks not working

Submitted by chetan on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 12:33.

I've noticed some problems with live bookmarks not working for feeds from WordPress or Movabletype.

Firefox 1.0pre simply rocks,

Submitted by gieltje on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 11:43.

Firefox 1.0pre simply rocks, combined with Gentoo, anti alliasing I dont even think about going back to windows with ie Ever.

Free yourself use Linux.

W00t

Submitted by simontinsley on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 11:08.

Frefox 1.0PR is great, I'm a n00b to the Firefox scene, only been using it since 0.7. I originally used it as a secondary browser behind Opera as a dfesigner, but it rocks. When I was on a 56k connection it was great. Awesome guys, keep it up. 10million downloads?

East shit IE.

Better still?

Submitted by Persisto77 on Sun, 09/26/2004 - 15:53.

Very good, and great that it is open source.
I really like the Bookmark management, which is a kludge anywhere else.
But I've been using Opera, and will probably continue to do so for a while:
- I can not find a zoom in FF
- I like the New Tab, Fast Forward and Rewind buttons in Opera.
- Opera is strictly tab, no new windows open outside the main prog window.
- You can re-arrange the tabs in Opera.

I am waiting for the tabbed browser with tabs BELOW the window, like Excel!

Keep up the good work!

Extensions

Submitted by Powersurge on Tue, 09/28/2004 - 10:26.

All that stuff is there for Firefox through extensions, which are one of its greatest advantages anyway.

Thanks for the greatest browser.

Submitted by kazu on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 10:42.

It's neat! It's awesome! I can't explain how nice the Firefox 1.0 PR is. I just want to say thank you to all of the people who are in charge of its development.

Mission accomplished!

Submitted by dezydery on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 10:21.

Well done. It's now a proven fact - lots of 'net savvy individuals are downloading Firefox.

Next step, the really important stuff - make use of the requirement imposed on Microsoft to allow other browsers to be installed on new machines.

For Firefox to truly break through, you need 50% of Windows PCs this December to have the Firefox logo on the desktop instead of IE.

Get talking to the OEMs!

A new convert

Submitted by treeshouse on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 09:20.

I knew a long time ago that I hated IE. I have been using Opera for years now. Many congrats to your team getting the word out about Foxfire. I had to try it. Now while Opera is faster than IE, Foxfire is as much faster than Opera as Opera is than IE. I am on a dial up connection and my eyes just about popped out of my head at how fast pages load with Foxfire. I kept wondering when someone sneeked a cable connection in here. :-) Even downloading from the internet is faster. I still can't believe it. I'm sold. I can't wait until the full 1.0 version comes out. I am telling all my friends. Keep up the good work.

Treeshouse

When you tell your friends about it...

Submitted by mozbrowser on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 18:52.

When you tell your friends about this cool browser, then please call it Firefox instead of FoxFire. A Firefox is a little cute red panda bear as you can see on http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa

Greetings,

Martijn
- www.mozbrowser.nl
- www.openmagazine.nl

Rockin' Out to Firefox!

Submitted by on broken wings113 on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 05:47.

I've been using Firefox since .7. I started using it because of the HORRIBLE problems I ran into with IE and all the damn spyware. Firefox rocks my socks! Go for 2 million!

CONGRATZ!

Submitted by silvorgold on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 02:18.

Lots of congratz to the Mozilla Firefox team for making Firefox the best browser in the world, and as well of course thanks to everyone who downloaded firefox! I never expected it to reach one million downloads so soon, but there's lots of talk about Firefox all over the net, including on lots of non-tech related websites. I've used Firefox since Phoenix .1 in Oct '02, it's gotten alot better since then, and it will continue to get better, right now Firefox 1.0 beta is PERFECT in my opinion, have yet to run into bugs. Keep up the awesome work guys and gals!

I posted news about the big news on a site I post news on: http://www.slipstreamx.net/viewthread.php?tid=3067

Keep on rockin in the free world!

Congratulations sfx team,

Submitted by amit on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 01:25.

Congratulations sfx team, the product speaks for itself. One word - Awesome! And I also bought a Firefox T-Shirt last night to show my support. GO FIREFOX!

FIrefox is awesome... burn baby burn!!

Submitted by bachok83 on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 00:48.

Firefox is just great.. nothing about it is suck. It's just like bringging a whole new internet world to the world.

I think, these geniuses who develop Firefox came from different planet. Where in their planet they dont have IE. Whick means, IE is just for suckers in this stupid world... hahahahah...

Anyway, Firefox really whips the llama's ass :D

Let's kick IE's ass !!

Best Browser

Submitted by Moz on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 00:22.

I've been using Firefox since version 0.8, which isn't very long ago, but I've been a loyal user since. What attracts me most is the standards-compliance, something that IE definately doesn't have. The extra features are also a plus. Tabbed browsing makes things so much easier.

I'm glad that more and more people are starting to realize the benefits of using Firefox.

Make it 10 Million

Submitted by web-spy on Sun, 09/19/2004 - 00:12.

Set the goal to 10 Million (and maybe a few more days) when 1.0 final is finished.

I've also been using it since

Submitted by dj_rigo on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 23:43.

I've also been using it since it was called Phoenix, it was such a promise! Now it is an incredible full blown browser.
Let browser wars 2.0 begin! =D

Congrats and Well done

Submitted by mjalan on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 23:40.

Well done for 1 million download in under 100 hrs.. I just remember before I started to use Phoneix at that time, I was using Opera, and still didn't make Opera as my default browser, and also, I never make any IE alternative broswer as default, but whn I first downloaded 0.4, and after used for the first time, I straight make Phoneix as my default browser without thinking much.

Well done and congrats again and hopefully Firefox will take over IE in 1 day.. ^^

Firefox 1.0 PR

Submitted by sipowicz on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 23:25.

I have been using Firfox since it was called Phoenix. It by far the best Browser available. I could not ever go back to IE.

amazing!

Submitted by Jonned on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 23:20.

I've been using Firefox as my default browser since 0.5 (when it was still called Phoenix), and it is absolutely stunning to watch the record setting spread of the 1.0 Preview and the simultaneous birth of the SpreadFirefox website.

GO PANDA GO!

Finally a Browser You Can Trust - Congratulations!

Submitted by Kayakerfl on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 23:13.

It has literally be a hard road finding a browser that is reliable and safe. I've been through navigator, communication, explorer, msn and others, not one of the other browsers even comes close to FireFox, Well done and thank you, I've already installed it on every computer I own and I'm sending out emails about it to everyone I know.

Thank you.

Excellent!

Submitted by nightwing00 on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 23:09.

This is just great! I've been telling people that I know to switch to firefox, and I just know that pretty soon, firefox is going to be the default browser, with ie pushed out of the market.

Awesome!

Submitted by djpohly on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 22:57.

This is awesome! My faith in the average intelligence level of Internet users has been renewed. Way to go sfx team!

Way to go!

Submitted by n0nick on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 22:56.

This didn't really took me by surprise. I always knew that Mozilla can do it. Step by step, we're getting closer to "taking back the web".

Way to go on the sfx campaign.

Can't wait to 1.0!

Here to millions more, 1 mill

Submitted by 3dgpu.com on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 22:54.

Here to millions more, 1 million is just the bottom layer, now we have to work towards the icing. I think it's great that the community drives the marketing of this great browser. The more people that use Firefox and switch away from IE, the better the internet will be in the near future.

Matt Burris
http://3dgpu.com/

Congratulations!

Submitted by tchung on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 22:15.

Congratulations!

On behalf of FedoraNEWS.ORG Team,

Thomas Chung
FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org)

Mathematical Growth

Submitted by homeobocks on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 21:47.

Mathematically, speaking, there are two ways Firefox is growing:

1: Exponential Growth: Since the approval rating of Firefox is higher than my Physics mark, the more people who use it, the more will tell their friends about it

2: Logarithmic Growth: After a while, people will spread it less and less, because: a) they get bored with the campaign, or b) they've told everyone they know. But it is still a positive grown, just a reduced acceleration that is approaching 0.

-- MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING

Or a combination

Submitted by Simplex on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 22:54.

Or, it will grow exponentially, until it reaches its market saturation point for its audience. The first part is what we are doing now. Awareness is our biggest problem. Once we become aware in people's minds, then we'll just have to convince them that we are better.

amazing!

Submitted by ups on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 21:38.

brilliant! this is awesome, over 1 million downloads in less than 100 hours!

way to go sfx team, you guys rock!

just wonder what will happen when the v1 is released...

Beauuuuuuuutiful! :)

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 21:19.

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They got them in 4.

Eat dirt, you piece of garbage!

As expected, the growth is sh

Submitted by Jonathan Stanley on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 20:27.

As expected, the growth is showing signs of being exponential... I think that by the end of the 10 days... there could well be over 10 million downloads.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see. ;)

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1 Mio. mal Firefox in 100 Stunden

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Ignite the web!

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Firefox gana adeptos

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Firefox is hot, hot, hot!

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FireFox PR 1.0 reaches 1,000,000 in just 100 hours

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FireFox team is so confident that they offer $500 USD to anyone who finds a security bug.

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Firefox burning up the web

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Apologies! Sorry!

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The Beginning of the (I)End

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This is excellent

Submitted by FireFusion on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 19:54.

I hope we can smash the 2 million mark before the 6 days are up.

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