Firefox Nearing 20 Million Downloads; 18 Million and growing regardless of recent security issues.

GameSHOUT ^ | Jan. 17, 2005 | Capt. Maverick

[holymoly]

It's hard to believe but to-date, Mozilla's Firefox browser has seen more than 18 million downloads. This appears to be a greater response than even Mozilla had hoped for. Many sources on the Internet are reporting that this is due to a great drive of Firefox user's missionary zeal in spreading the good word. Those people are credited with the unprecedented growth and success of Firefox 1.0.

"We're going to hit 20 million downloads before the end of the month. It's a wild ride and shows no sign of slowing down. Keep spreading the word. You all are the ones taking back the Web," said Asa of spreadfirefox.com. Asa further stated that part of the success of the spread of Firefox was the installation of the browser in libraries and schools, which allows more and more potential users the opportunity to try it before they download the browser for themselves.

Recent reports of security issues with Firefox does not seem to hamper the explosive success of the browser. As reported here on GameSHOUT, 4 out of 5 security issues still remain unprepared since a security report was issued by security research firm Secunia in August of 2004. They also state that 4 of those vulnerabilities found were rated "Less Critical" while only 1 was rated as "Moderately Critical".

[holymoly]

You're very welcome.

BTW, I double checked my firewall rules, and found two for "Windows Explorer" (C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE)

One denies "In TCP" [any address],[any port], the other denies "In UDP" (datagrams). You may want to look for something similar in your firewall rules.

Good luck.