Comments on: Firefox 3 Download Stats http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/ Technology News Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Changehttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-141395 Change Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:13:04 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-141395 Never had any bookmarks problems, that's odd. Did you find other users with that problem? Don't have an extension installed that deals with bookmarks?The urlclassifier is actually only for information regarding fishing filters. If you have a problem with it, you can disable it. See this article: http://ychittaranjan.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/urlclassifier3sqlite-woes-on-firefox-3/ Never had any bookmarks problems, that’s odd. Did you find other users with that problem? Don’t have an extension installed that deals with bookmarks?

The urlclassifier is actually only for information regarding fishing filters. If you have a problem with it, you can disable it. See this article: [ychittaranjan.wordpress.com]

]]> By: Flaghttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-141360 Flag Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:08:26 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-141360 July 29 Had Firefox on for two days. Bookmarks deleted keep returning when browser is restarted. One time all bookmarks disappeared. The new sqlite files are way larger than the old dat files. If you wipe the history(they call it places now, you lose all bookmarks.) The urlclassifier sqlite files keep bloating daily. More trouble than it is worth. Went back to Firefox 2 today. It is like a breath of fresh air. Sorry they screwed up a good thing. July 29 Had Firefox on for two days. Bookmarks deleted keep returning when browser is restarted. One time all bookmarks disappeared. The new sqlite files are way larger than the old dat files. If you wipe the history(they call it places now, you lose all bookmarks.) The urlclassifier sqlite files keep bloating daily. More trouble than it is worth. Went back to Firefox 2 today. It is like a breath of fresh air. Sorry they screwed up a good thing.

]]> By: Ryanhttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-140149 Ryan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:08:09 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-140149 The Spread Firefox World Record site says 160 million... did they change it or did you get that quote from somewhere else? The Spread Firefox World Record site says 160 million… did they change it or did you get that quote from somewhere else?

]]> By: natmasterhttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-140135 natmaster Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:16:51 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-140135 "The Firefox community is the proud new owner of a Guinness World Record — each and every one of you! Mozilla today received confirmation from Guinness World Records that we’ve officially achieved the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!This is another wonderful accomplishment in a long line of them for our community! Ever since Firefox was launched in 2004 we’ve relied on our community to help us spread the word, and thanks to projects including crop circles, newspaper ads, giant stickers, videos, blogs and more we now have over 180 million users in more than 230 countries. Incredible work!"From my update on the record. 180 million users is the official number now. “The Firefox community is the proud new owner of a Guinness World Record — each and every one of you! Mozilla today received confirmation from Guinness World Records that we’ve officially achieved the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!

This is another wonderful accomplishment in a long line of them for our community! Ever since Firefox was launched in 2004 we’ve relied on our community to help us spread the word, and thanks to projects including crop circles, newspaper ads, giant stickers, videos, blogs and more we now have over 180 million users in more than 230 countries. Incredible work!”

From my update on the record. 180 million users is the official number now.

]]> By: Ryanhttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-140061 Ryan Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:10:58 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-140061 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-139961" rel="nofollow">Andrew wrote:</a><blockquote>FireFox 3 sucks, uninstalled it today and went back to v2, the new Font Rendering Engine is completely horrible the fonts are all whacked and change when the page refreshes, and no it’s not the website! Hopefully they fix this HUGE BUG Soon.</blockquote></div> Huh, haven't noticed a font problem here.<div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-139993" rel="nofollow">natmaster wrote:</a><blockquote><a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2008/01/22/a-new-milestone-in-firefox-usage/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mozilla.com/metric.....fox-usage/</a>From the article: 50 Million DAILY active users in January. You’re 20 million seems a little out of date. I bet most people don’t even use their computer every day.</blockquote></div> A little more searching and I found an article from June that said they have 60 million daily users. I could have sworn that I saw the 20 million number on a Mozilla blog or on the World Record site recently.<div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140005" rel="nofollow">Change wrote:</a><blockquote>The spikes are interesting too. I suppose many more people use Firefox at home than at work. The difference looks like 3% more at home, which is close to a 40% growth.</blockquote></div> That does look like the case... even on a global basis. The Europe and North America daily peaks are nicely shifted to demonstrated the time difference.<div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140020" rel="nofollow">Tinhed wrote:</a><blockquote>I dont know about mac users, but for linux users FF is THE browser. Many Distro’s include it as a default. What would be interesting is the percentage among Linux users who use Firefox. Would be close to 80% i guess.</blockquote></div> I would guess it's at least 80% since Ubuntu comes with it, and that's the dominant distribution right now. Andrew wrote:
FireFox 3 sucks, uninstalled it today and went back to v2, the new Font Rendering Engine is completely horrible the fonts are all whacked and change when the page refreshes, and no it’s not the website! Hopefully they fix this HUGE BUG Soon.

Huh, haven’t noticed a font problem here.

natmaster wrote:
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From the article: 50 Million DAILY active users in January. You’re 20 million seems a little out of date. I bet most people don’t even use their computer every day.

A little more searching and I found an article from June that said they have 60 million daily users. I could have sworn that I saw the 20 million number on a Mozilla blog or on the World Record site recently.

Change wrote:
The spikes are interesting too. I suppose many more people use Firefox at home than at work. The difference looks like 3% more at home, which is close to a 40% growth.

That does look like the case… even on a global basis. The Europe and North America daily peaks are nicely shifted to demonstrated the time difference.

Tinhed wrote:
I dont know about mac users, but for linux users FF is THE browser. Many Distro’s include it as a default. What would be interesting is the percentage among Linux users who use Firefox. Would be close to 80% i guess.

I would guess it’s at least 80% since Ubuntu comes with it, and that’s the dominant distribution right now.

]]> By: Codyhttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-140026 Cody Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:42:24 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-140026 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-139961" rel="nofollow">Andrew wrote:</a><blockquote>FireFox 3 sucks, uninstalled it today and went back to v2, the new Font Rendering Engine is completely horrible the fonts are all whacked and change when the page refreshes, and no it’s not the website! Hopefully they fix this HUGE BUG Soon.</blockquote></div>Yes, this is an issue. I encounter it VERY often when I try to view a comment page or leave a comment on any Blogger blog. Andrew wrote:
FireFox 3 sucks, uninstalled it today and went back to v2, the new Font Rendering Engine is completely horrible the fonts are all whacked and change when the page refreshes, and no it’s not the website! Hopefully they fix this HUGE BUG Soon.

Yes, this is an issue. I encounter it VERY often when I try to view a comment page or leave a comment on any Blogger blog.

]]> By: Tinhedhttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-140020 Tinhed Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:09:55 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-140020 I dont know about mac users, but for linux users FF is THE browser. Many Distro's include it as a default. What would be interesting is the percentage among Linux users who use Firefox. Would be close to 80% i guess. I dont know about mac users, but for linux users FF is THE browser. Many Distro’s include it as a default. What would be interesting is the percentage among Linux users who use Firefox. Would be close to 80% i guess.

]]> By: Mohanhttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-140012 Mohan Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:36:30 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-140012 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-139961" rel="nofollow">Andrew wrote:</a><blockquote>FireFox 3 sucks, uninstalled it today and went back to v2, the new Font Rendering Engine is completely horrible the fonts are all whacked and change when the page refreshes, and no it’s not the website! Hopefully they fix this HUGE BUG Soon.</blockquote></div> I haven't ran into any bug like that and I have been using FF 3 since Alpha 4. I am the opposite it's hard for me to go back to FF 2 now that I have used FF 3. Andrew wrote:
FireFox 3 sucks, uninstalled it today and went back to v2, the new Font Rendering Engine is completely horrible the fonts are all whacked and change when the page refreshes, and no it’s not the website! Hopefully they fix this HUGE BUG Soon.

I haven’t ran into any bug like that and I have been using FF 3 since Alpha 4. I am the opposite it’s hard for me to go back to FF 2 now that I have used FF 3.

]]> By: Changehttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-140005 Change Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:38:24 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-140005 The spikes are interesting too. I suppose many more people use Firefox at home than at work. The difference looks like 3% more at home, which is close to a 40% growth. The spikes are interesting too. I suppose many more people use Firefox at home than at work. The difference looks like 3% more at home, which is close to a 40% growth.

]]> By: natmasterhttp://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-download-stats/#comment-139994 natmaster Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:26:32 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13402#comment-139994 http://www.betanews.com/article/Firefox_claims_over_125_million_active_users/1196713676125 million active users for 2007. (My last post had the DAILY count) [betanews.com]

125 million active users for 2007. (My last post had the DAILY count)

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