Home » News » Software News » Firefox Surpasses 1 Billion Downloads » Comments

Comments for Firefox Surpasses 1 Billion Downloads

Comments

Please wait while we process your request

Please wait while we retrieve the user's information

Bio

Your bio is currently empty. Now is a great time to fill in your profile.

This profile is private.

This profile is only shared with friends.

This profile is under review.

We were unable to request friendship with this user.

We were unable to request friendship with this user. Are you logged in?

Your friendship request has been sent to this user.

We were unable to terminate friendship with this user.

We were unable to terminate friendship with this user. Are you logged in?

You are no longer friends with this user.

We were unable to ignore this user.

We were unable to ignore this user. Are you logged in?

This user is now ignored.

We were unable to stop ignoring this user.

We were unable to stop ignoring this user. Are you logged in?

This user is no longer ignored.

pluck_user_mp-abuse_too_long_err

Name withheld

Superfly

5:27 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Superfly. Show Details Hide Details

You need to add three more zeros to your hyperlink.

Score:

Name withheld

xbrumster

5:43 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore xbrumster. Show Details Hide Details

poor Gordon...

Score:

Name withheld

Gordon394

6:05 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Gordon394. Show Details Hide Details

Indeed. Poor, poor, me. Hang on, eh?

Score:

Name withheld

Runadumb

6:24 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Runadumb. Show Details Hide Details

It annoys me when I see people using IE lol. Really geeky thing to say but it does, I use opera but toy with firefox now and again. Hell even my parents dont use IE

Score:

Name withheld

Xiphias

7:19 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Xiphias. Show Details Hide Details

@Runadumb: You're giving geeks a bad name, that's intolerence not geekiness. Firefox may suit you and your familily but it's merely more suited to you then IE, not instrinsically better than it.

Score:

Name withheld

Castalan

8:27 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Castalan. Show Details Hide Details

@Runadumb : worked in the IT industry for 22 years now - first cut my teeth on the web with Mosaic and AIX - and the one thing it's tought me is if it's simple and just works people will use it. IE is simple and works - I know there are all sorts of plugins and stuff for all the browsers - but for the majority of the world we want something to click on that will reliably open a webpage - and we don't care what it's called or what whizzy extensions we can get for it.

yes I'll stand up and be counted - IE is really ok - just like firefox and chrome and opera - we don't use all the twiddly bits - and couldnt care less about them

( the geek in me would like to see google chrome giving microsoft a swift kick in the bank account though ;) )

Score:

Name withheld

hankb6d

8:30 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore hankb6d. Show Details Hide Details

I hope MS don't can IE because in the hankcave it shits on the fox. Opera FTW :)

Score:

Name withheld

bazza

11:38 PM on 31 July, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore bazza. Show Details Hide Details

Actually the ballot screen will be bad fro firefox because the average user now sees Google as the internet itself, thus Google Chrome will be immidiately more recognisable to them. Google will take the title from Firefox.

Score:

Name withheld

Ben

2:38 AM on 1 August, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Ben. Show Details Hide Details

At least the web isn't being designed for one browser owned by one company anymore. The standards-based web is flourishing now, thanks to competition and changing attitudes. Even if competing browsers can't increase their market share much more I don't think that really matters, so long as they've got enough share to justify their existence.

I'm actually loving Safari on Mac and Windows these days, lol, but I'm aware that I'm in a minority.

Score:

Name withheld

Steve32

10:10 AM on 1 August, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Steve32. Show Details Hide Details

@Castalan: Agree 100%. I use FireFox, but only went to it a several years ago because of Tabbed browsing (seems old hat now though). I don't have any extensions installed at all. Used to have a couple, but got fed up of them not working most times I upgraded so I don't bother anymore.

However, the rise of other browsers is good for everyone as it forced M$ to update IE, make it more standards compliant, etc, etc. As long as one doesn't win overall, then that is a healthy place to be for us all. I certainly wouldn't want Chrome to become dominant - not because I dislike the browser or anything. Just that it would be as bad as when M$ had 90+% of the market. (And I am becoming more and more cynical of Google - but that could just me being a paranoid old git ;-) )

Like you say, the vast majority of people really don't care about the browser - they just want to use browser web sites.

@Runadumb: Comments like that really annoy me ;-) It is like an audiophile saying they get really annoyed when they see someone listening to an iPod (and with standard headphones). They use IE because: they don't know any better; don't care; or just have more important things to worry about in life! (or they have a life even, lol) It is a means to an end, that's it!

Score:

Name withheld

Guigsy

12:41 PM on 1 August, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Guigsy. Show Details Hide Details

It was annoying when people were still using IE when it was IE6 vs the rest. IE6 was so poor in terms of safety and reliability. Firefox deserved to gain market share to oust IE that had something like a 90% market share and no innovations for years.

Now MS is competing and they've produced a comparable browser, I don't have a problem with people using IE8. I use Firefox (and have done since Phoenix v0.8), but now I use it because I'm familiar with it and I can sync bookmarks across my Linux box, Windows box and Portable Firefox on a USB stick. There are pros and cons to each browser now, but there's no clear cut winner, lets keep it that way.

Score:

Name withheld

betelgeus

1:16 PM on 1 August, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore betelgeus. Show Details Hide Details

the question is,is it 1 billion unique downloads? if not then hell ive downloaded it about 100 times over the years.xp to vista to xp to windows 7 every 6 months on 5 machines adds up

Score:

Name withheld

Premfab

1:40 PM on 1 August, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Premfab. Show Details Hide Details

Downloads? Unique downloads? Doesn't really matter. This is an impressive achievement.

Been using Firefox since day 1. Always kept IE as a backup for difficult sites. Now, I cannot remember when I last used IE. Also dabbled in Chrome, Safari and Opera, but stuck with Firefox. Yes, it really is that good.

Score:

Name withheld

Joe

10:30 PM on 1 August, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Joe. Show Details Hide Details

I've checked the little banner on the right of www.onebillionplusyou.com to see the different messages for Firefox (you rock), Chrome, Opera (both why use good when you can have awesome) and IE (comparing it to a VCR!), can anyone tell me what it says for safari or any others I forgot?

Score:

Name withheld

Tony Walker

11:02 PM on 2 August, 2009

This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore Tony Walker. Show Details Hide Details

Conmpany IT (PC) departments are only using IE because they haven't got the wit to use anything better. I've worked in IT (Mainframes) for 20 years.

My first browser was IBM's on OS/2 Warp and I still reckon it was the best. They were my first ISP too (1994/1995).

Use Firefox now (and Safari on my Mac) and the Mozilla browser before it. Prior to that on Windows I was a Netscape man. There was a short spell between Netscape and discovering Mozilla where I used IE - and did not enjoy it one bit!

@Castalan - With IE I ran into as many problems on sites as I have done with Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape.

Score:

Please wait while we file your abuse report.

We're sorry. We were unable to report abuse at this time.

We limit the number of reactions an individual user can submit over a given period for quality reasons. You have currently reached that limit. Please try resubmitting your abuse report again later.

Comment is too long. Enter 500 characters or less.