The Firefox browser has been downloaded nearly 500 million times, says their SpreadFirefox website. Parent organization Mozilla is celebrating by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice. That, says Mozilla, is enough to feed 25,000 people for a day.
Earlier this month we reported that Firefox 3, beta version 3, had been released. The browser has around 17% market share worldwide and 150 million active users.
This is great. Congrats FireFox, as I post from firefox…
Lousy browser. FF3 equally lousy. Hopeless.
This is cool. Donating is a great way to celebrate.
Confusing patrons with both Foundation and Corporation models is EVIL.
This makes it sound like FF3 beta has a 17% market share, which obviously isn’t what was intended …
So many major security improvements have been made in IE 7 for Vista that geeks may fell comfortable using it once it catches on.
The one big selling point in FireFox continues to be the innovative add on /extensions.
They really add another dimension to browsing for power users
technicle, you’re probably three more comments from being banned.
Mike – Thanks for the note. Because of the bold, or because of the opinion?
In any case, fine, and see you later. Cheers.
I am sure it wont be long before the number reaches 1 billion. Not so long ago the number reached 400 million and its been quick to get to 500 million.
I now use Safari 3.0 on Windows, it is quite good, but FF still has an advantage of large collection of plugins.
Hey this is great news. I don’t know what i’ll do without my Firefox browser. I love the tabs and other cool features. Most of the time, it’s faster than IE too.
I would agree with Technicle, I also find some of FF’s ways very questionable. A lot of their marketing on spreadfirefox.com is based on saying that Microsoft is evil, while Firefox is open source. They like to downplay the fact that they earned ~$70M last year primarily thanks to Google (who of course discreetly supports them).
I’m not overly impressed by FF technically-speaking vs. IE, but I think their marketing is impressive (though evil).
20,000 grains of rice in one day/per person. Don’t know about you, but that seems like a LOT!
I don’t think it means much anymore. MSFT is not really interested in protecting something that doesn’t make money for them. FF3B3 is pretty cool and I’m a MSFT Fan Boy. But I must admit I also like Safari for Windows 3.0.4 Beta and so I’ve learned to just use browsers for what they work best with. Like OWA is always best on IE
i am one among them
i use it
Good for Firefox….Opera is better though….
what an arse “technicle”…
if u want to do a critcism.. its better to be a bit reasonable like:
FF3 sucks because i find a lot of bugs, its engine is slow.. etc etc”
or quit trolling .. you fail at that too.
@Ujwal
Probably it’s your first time reading my comments here. I’ve stated the reasons many times before. People will be reasonable if FF people listen. Do they? What an arse. My last comment on this FF junk.
and, @Ujwal, to save your arsking:
http://www.tech...comment-1982442
any ff ppl care to comment, you’ve my email address thereon — i’d presume i’m banned after this post.
Being a pampered Westerner, when I think of 500 million grains of rice my first thought is “Ugh”.
Maybe TechCrunchers could club together to match Mozilla’s donation with 25,000 chicken breasts, poppadoms and jars of Patak’s Tikka Masala curry sauce.
They reached 500 million figure now, congrats for fighting the Microsoft menace.
Well, I guess a few tones of rice is just nothing for Mozilla compared to the huge revenue they get on the back of the involvment of free and blind developpers.
Hey… FF or Mozilla is not a foundation, just a intelligent worldwide company !
In whose pockets is going all this money ???
im using mozilla too..lets spread the firefox and help them to reach 500..
I’m fans of Firefox
Congratulations!
congrats fire fox. i am one of your user. btw i haven’t yet tried ff3 beta but hopefully it is bug free.
at Technicle
You are warned because this is not a post for criticism. Better find a forum where people are discussing FF drawbacks
Very good news…
I use Firefox from the start, and I am a big supporter…
I just wish more people would jump onto firefox than ie. Being a developer, I develop for IE cuz it has the most quirks and css acts the weirdest in that browser. I develop in IE cuz i know firefox will do what it is supposed to.
@ravi – thank you, greatest advise ever.
In case you’re curious of why the angry “troll” — it’s becos this ff thing wasted a lot of webapp developers (and my developers in particular) way too much time, period.
Too bad those stats don’t include all the FireBird and Phoenix downloads. If they do, I stand corrected.
Firefox browser..poor at best. Needs some technical tweaking. It is always crashing and closing.
It has potential…as of now….going back to IE.
You work out the bugs…let me know.