I’m tired of analysts. I’m tired of hearing what people will do, should do, have done historically, are likely to do, will never do and have never done. The browser is dead. People won’t download software. The only way to compete is to bundle. Open source will never reach the mainstream.
Whatever. Join us in flipping off how-things-oughta-be as we count down to 50,000,000 downloads of Firefox worldwide, poke a little fun at Opera, and dish out unique prizes you won’t find anywhere else. If you thought the coins were cool, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
There are people out there who will caution us against celebration for fear of getting too cocky. That’s wrong. Cocky is when you stop celebrating because the millions start to blend together and your users become a figure on a spreadsheet. We know damned well we have to keep improving the Web experience or we’ll die. The fifty millionth downloader matters as much as the fiftieth.
April 26th, 2005 at 5:55 am
Blake, you need to get with it.
The young people use the word ‘fitty’ instead of ‘fifty’.
Stop Embarrasing yourself.
April 26th, 2005 at 8:38 am
Whatever. Just don’t ask me to swim to Norway :D
April 26th, 2005 at 8:41 am
Whatever. Just don’t ask me to swim to Norway :D
April 26th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
we’re not all like that Blake ;) some of us get what’s going on, and don’t miss the opportunity to tell people. either way, congrats on the upcoming #.
April 26th, 2005 at 2:36 pm
I don’t live in America, so unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be able to take part in this idea, but it’s just a thought.
How about this- as many people as physically possible decend upon the lawns outside Microsoft HQ, Firefox t-shirts, banners, the whole lot. Attract as much mainstream publicity as possible. Wind up M$ execs so they try to have you all removed from the area. Get it captured on film, get it publicised.
Once everyone knows 50 million others have tasted the Firefox experience, we’ll be heading towards 100 million before we know it.
April 27th, 2005 at 12:08 am
That’s sounds…splendid. Just make sure you don’t do anything to get the makers of Firefox in trouble :P, if of course M$ has the guts to take on all of us Open Source guru’s…They have no chance.
April 27th, 2005 at 4:31 am
Celebration is one of the best things in life! As far as I’m concerned any excuse to celebrate…and if you think
50,000,000 downloads is worth it(I think so), then who’s cracking open the first bottle of champagne?
April 27th, 2005 at 11:00 am
You gotta nothing to fear from Opera. Version 8 is confused if its a beta or the real thing. Refuses to connect to GMail (support for which is listed as a significant feature in the changelog). And Jon called off his cross-pond crawl after his support raft deflated (too much hot air?).
Softly, softly we shall surpass ‘em all. Best comment I read about Firefox was an article by Nigel McFarlane in Linux Journal was “..user interface is polished to appeal to ordinary, non-technical users…” which is why Da Fox Rocks
April 28th, 2005 at 1:50 am
“Refuses to connect to GMail (support for which is listed as a significant feature in the changelog).”
Gmail works great both here and at home on Opera 8. There’s little complaints about it on the Opera forums as well. Anyway, this wasn’t “talk defensively about Opera 8?”
I personally like the thing at Microsoft; it brought back good memories from the good old days of Netscape vs MS:
http://www.slothmud.org/~hayward/mic_humor/moz_ie.gif
:)
April 28th, 2005 at 10:28 am
Well, i’ve noticed that a lot of these analysts have not got much experience with much. They’re saying that based on the fact that Microsoft shoved IE down everyone’s throat, as well as the all the AWFUL things that go with it.
I dont care what stupid analysts say, they can analyze this *shoves ass to window* because they speak, dream, and live in a world of dreams.
The fact is, 50,000,000 Downloads CAN NOT LIE! If IE had to generate it’s user statuses by download alone, would they do it? No! Because their Image, and everything else exudes Lies, Deceit, and Mistrust.
Similarly, the mentality is that Microsoft has forced people into thinking that their produts are the onyl thing. “My computer crashed, but what can you do?”, Choose Another Operating System or Browser - Firefox, Mozilla, Mac, etc.
When i see Mozilla Firefox, what do i see? Honesty, truthfulness, and above all, the sense that my interests are served!
When i see Microsoft or IE, I get the sense that they think they are the be all and end all discussed in effects research - thinking that whatever they make, we will gobble it up and be thankful for it, but it’s not the case.
I mean, how strange is it that KDE / Mac Release a feature, and then Microsoft suddenly contracts some form of disease whereby their Ideas EXACTLY match the ones added in open source software? *Cough* Longhorn, IE, Microsoft AMPERSAND (Shameless Ripoff of Asterisk).
Bah, rock on Blake!
And Rock on Me, i’ve got at least 40 people on Firefox :D
April 28th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
I’d like to see less rah rah talk from Mozilla about how many users have downloaded the product and more attention focused on serving those new users. Every new person who downloads and uses Firefox is a new users who’ll potentially need help with it and eventually look towards it for cool new functionality, once the noverly of ‘it’s safer than IE’ wears off.
The philosophy of Firefox to keep core functionality simple and leave the bells and whistles to extensions is a good one, but I think there’s room for Mozilla to put together a starter pack of extensions and start promoting those prominently, rather than leaving the work to startups like Round Two.
April 29th, 2005 at 5:05 am
Anyone else going to be watching as the digits tumble over to 50mil? :)
http://ed.agadak.net/greasemonkey/ffCounter/ffCounter.php
April 29th, 2005 at 5:18 am
Not wanting to be a spoilsport here, but hasn’t timothy ppainted the FF logo on the inside of his back, i.e. the surface facing his back? Unless he never wears it on his back, that isn’t going to get many foxes spread… ;-)
April 29th, 2005 at 5:19 am
Sorry, I meant Mathieu of course.
April 29th, 2005 at 6:21 am
David,
No, because the front is also painted, see http://www.spreadfirefox.com/galleries/bab241058c3f8e308c9f7bcf65fda41b-14602.jpg
We just found the logo more interesting.
-Blake
April 29th, 2005 at 7:31 am
Ok, great - I missed that :-)
May 1st, 2005 at 6:33 pm
“We know damned well we have to keep improving the Web experience or we’ll die.”
Then please, address this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289480.
Fix Gecko so it can pass the Acid2 test. Soon. We weren’t first, may as well arrive second. Wasn’t Gecko built from the beginning to be standards complaint?
May 1st, 2005 at 6:35 pm
Oops, just realized my link to the Bugzilla link doesn’t work. Here is the correct link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289480
May 3rd, 2005 at 10:31 pm
Best compliments to your company!
Visentini Nicola
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