500 million Firefox downloads: complete; 500 million grains: in progress

March 7th, 2008 by Giles Smith

500 Million Firefox Downloads

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Firefox just reached 500,000,000 downloads. This is an absolutely phenomenal milestone for Firefox. It is sort of hard to imagine what that number means. For some perspective, that’s roughly the audience size of 10,000 Rome Colosseums combined. It would be the weight, in kilograms, of 8,500 Boeing 747 airplanes. In dollars, for $500 million you and 15 of your friends can fly to the International Space Station.

Congratulations to the best browser the internet has seen, I await the new engine in Firefox 4 with great anticipation!!!

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The Netscape Archive, Good bye Navigator

March 3rd, 2008 by Giles Smith

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As mentioned previously, the Netscape Archive has been created to preserve a final resting place for client side Netscape applications, given that official support is ending March 1, 2008. The archive is now available at archive.netscape.com

As the quote says the archive will contain all releases of Netscape Navigator from Navigator 4.78 to Navigator 9.0.0. I was a navigator during the first browser wars, and I am happy to say I use Firefox now.

The end of an era…

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