Posted on 02/17/2005 11:00:10 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone.
Thank you.
Thank you for helping us take this product from 25 to 25 million, from our little corner of the world to yours, from the technically elite to Karen and Rimone.
With a minimal set of tools—an affiliate system, a small donations fundraising system, blogs, galleries, forums, and the good old human larynx—you all are spreading Firefox to a quarter of a million people a day. More than 500,000 sites now link to Firefox according to Google—a fivefold increase from six months ago.
What was just a small flame 100 days ago has since exploded into a phenomenal demonstration of the power of open source. Tens of thousands of devoted users and fans are a powerful and capable force of change. We have created a special commemorative image if you would like to mark this milestone on your own site.
In celebration of this 25 million downloads milestone, and in celebration of each and every one of you, the Mozilla Store is offering a 25% discount on Firefox t-shirts, polo shirts (non-launch), plush toys and hats. This discount is available now and will last until 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, February 17.
As an additional "token" of our appreciation, we are also pleased to announce that the kind folks over at CoinsForAnything have offered to provide us with 100 free collectors' coins to commemmorate this milestone in Internet history. We have provided a mockup above of how these coins will look. We will be awarding a quarter of these coins to the top 25 most active SpreadFirefox members, where "most active" is defined by the number and quality of the member's posts (as rated by the community), how many comments he's posted, whether or not he has engaged the community by rating other users' posts, and how much affiliate traffic he has generated for Firefox. We have placed much greater emphasis on how a member has helped grow the sfx community than on how much traffic he has sent to Firefox.
If you made the "most active" list, you will be notified later this week via e-mail or (if you did not provide us with the address) private message on SpreadFirefox.
The remaining 75 coins will be distributed according to a different set of criteria over the coming weeks, so if you don't get an e-mail but feel like you should have, don't despair.
Thanks again for your tireless efforts, and many thanks to CoinsForAnything for supporting our community. Onward to 50 million!
—Blake, on behalf of the sfx team
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Actually this shows the power of open source zealots giving away FREE software When firefox makes a profit, let me know.
lol.. yep. Reminds me of a game I used to play online, which was VERY popular while it was free, then died a sudden death as soon as they began to charge for it.
And when highly profitable Microsoft makes a somewhat secure in it shiped configuration please let me know.
I think the IRS would be interested as well, since they are a non-profit company.
yawn....
Well, Internet Explorer is free software as well.
It'd be interesting to see if Microsoft can and will up the ante here. It's pretty surprising that they still haven't added tabbed browsing as a built-in feature. It's one of the biggest draws of browsers like Opera and Mozilla/Firefox. I suppose they got a bit complacent after their victory over Netscape.
IE 7 is coming.
And judging from Microsofts track record in regards to on time shipments it should be here in release form sometime in Q3 2006 - Q2 2007.
Using it as I write. Good product + Free = Can't beat it.
Running Moox M2 at home and M3 at work...
MD
What is that?
moxx is optimised for certain cpu's, and it weighs in at around 5-6MB...
M2 is optimized for Athlon XP's
M3 is optimized for P4
Each cpu has varying instruction sets, XP's hase SSE, P4's have SSE, SSE2 etc...
Running Xandros V3 here.
I am a real Linux newbie.
I use knoppix, ubuntu and I'm downloading Mepis...as I type this...got to love a T1 connection...
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