Just like in real life.
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Spread Firefox is back online, just in time to pick up a nice little award for best marketing campaign from the UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2005. Gervase Markham even has a picture of it. The entire SFx site was taken down and rewritten from scratch following another hack. Oh, those crazy hackers and their crazy schemes.
Firefox hit the 100 million download mark just after SFx went back up, prompting an immediate forum blitz from the "it's popular so it sucks" crowd, who seem to think Mozilla is claiming a hundred million unique users for Firefox, which they aren't, and claiming that the numbers are misleading because they have personally downloaded Firefox seventeen times, which they haven't. You gotta love the fanboys. God only knows what they're actually fans of, but they're always crystal clear on what they're not fans of.
Netscape Browser has been updated to 8.0.4, incorporating the Firefox 1.0.7 security and stability fixes. For the record, Fx 1.0.7 was released a month ago. Way to stay on top of things, guys.
And a new Opera beta has surfaced at BetaNews. It seems to consist entirely of UI tweaks, so I don't know why the version number is being bumped from 8.5 to 9, but there it is. Unlike Netscape, which took a great browser in Firefox and turned it into a horrible mess, Opera just keeps getting better, and downloads have increased by a factor of four since the transition from adware to freeware. Good times.
I just realized that Firefox can do multiple-undo's. That's awesome.
by AC - permalink
Spread Firefox is back online, just in time to pick up a nice little award for best marketing campaign from the UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2005. Gervase Markham even has a picture of it. The entire SFx site was taken down and rewritten from scratch following another hack. Oh, those crazy hackers and their crazy schemes.
Firefox hit the 100 million download mark just after SFx went back up, prompting an immediate forum blitz from the "it's popular so it sucks" crowd, who seem to think Mozilla is claiming a hundred million unique users for Firefox, which they aren't, and claiming that the numbers are misleading because they have personally downloaded Firefox seventeen times, which they haven't. You gotta love the fanboys. God only knows what they're actually fans of, but they're always crystal clear on what they're not fans of.
Netscape Browser has been updated to 8.0.4, incorporating the Firefox 1.0.7 security and stability fixes. For the record, Fx 1.0.7 was released a month ago. Way to stay on top of things, guys.
And a new Opera beta has surfaced at BetaNews. It seems to consist entirely of UI tweaks, so I don't know why the version number is being bumped from 8.5 to 9, but there it is. Unlike Netscape, which took a great browser in Firefox and turned it into a horrible mess, Opera just keeps getting better, and downloads have increased by a factor of four since the transition from adware to freeware. Good times.
I just realized that Firefox can do multiple-undo's. That's awesome.
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