Comments on: Firefox 2 hits 2M downloads in 24 hours. IE eats it. http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/ and other random particles... Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kain http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Kain Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:57:05 +0000 #comment-640 I recently upgraded to Firefox 2 after getting sick of Firefox 1.Blah crashing.<br /> <br /> However, despite the fact that I've upgraded and tweaked all my system settings (ZoneAlarm, WinPatrol, Ad-Aware, Spybot, AVG, and WinFortress) I'm still having a bitchy time keeping it from crashing.<br /> <br /> I love Firefox, but I've had so many more crashes on it than on IE or Opera.<br /> <br /> Any suggestions?<br /> <br /> Or perhaps I'm just over-paranoid and need to unchoke my bandwidth? I recently upgraded to Firefox 2 after getting sick of Firefox 1.Blah crashing.

However, despite the fact that I’ve upgraded and tweaked all my system settings (ZoneAlarm, WinPatrol, Ad-Aware, Spybot, AVG, and WinFortress) I’m still having a bitchy time keeping it from crashing.

I love Firefox, but I’ve had so many more crashes on it than on IE or Opera.

Any suggestions?

Or perhaps I’m just over-paranoid and need to unchoke my bandwidth?

]]> By: Laurens Holst http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Laurens Holst Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:13:21 +0000 #comment-632 I don’t want to make the numbers seem less impressive, but one of the reasons for the difference might be that IE7 has only been released in one language at the moment (en-US), whereas Firefox has released many languages simultaneously. (Of course, this is really a good point in favour of Firefox :) .)

I thought about not downloading it (I want nl-NL), but I did download the en-US version in the end. But there may have been a lot of people who postponed downloading the browser until it becomes available in their language.

~Grauw

]]> By: Grey http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/comment-page-1/#comment-629 Grey Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:52:45 +0000 #comment-629 Gerard: Don't you have more important parades to rain on? Gerard: Don’t you have more important parades to rain on?

]]> By: Gérard Talbot http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Gérard Talbot Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:17:08 +0000 #comment-627 Grey,

Even if Firefox had, say, 6 millions in 3 days, the current stats of usage worldwide are *_overwhelmingly_* in favor of IE.

I believe you have the right to be happy about the overall number of downloads in recent days and happy about the excellent quality of Firefox 2 (and reviewers overall so far prefer Fx 2: that too is important) but we’re still very very far from the point where we could all be singing "We Are The Champions" from Queen.

Regards

Gérard

]]> By: Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng) http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng) Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:10:30 +0000 #comment-626 IE have 3 million in 4 days. :P IE have 3 million in 4 days. :P

]]> By: Grey http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Grey Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:03:04 +0000 #comment-625 Well, if IE had 4 million downloads in 3 days, and we had 2 million on 1 day... <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/24/ie7-hits-the-street.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ar...</a> Well, if IE had 4 million downloads in 3 days, and we had 2 million on 1 day… http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ar...

]]> By: Foobar http://burntelectrons.org/2006/10/firefox-2-hits-2m-downloads-in-24-hours-ie-eats-it/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Foobar Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:56:14 +0000 #comment-624 How do you know Firefox 2.0 downloads beat IE 7 downloads? How many IE 7 downloads there were in the first 24 hours? How do you know Firefox 2.0 downloads beat IE 7 downloads? How many IE 7 downloads there were in the first 24 hours?

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