Comments on: Firefox beats million-download deadline

With days to spare, open-source browser meets 10-day goal of 1 million downloads.

[treego]

Too bad this hype isn't over Opera, instead

Opera is awesome! I love it! The best out there and the Suite of features is awesome!

The keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, voice command capability in version 7.60 Preview, etc….. wow!

I'm talking about a sensational suite of browser, email client, newsgroup reading client, RSS newsfeed reader, and IRC Chat client all tied into one tight package that integrates fabulously in a smaller download size than Mozilla Firefox. No reliance on 3rd-party extensions for wonderful functionality, either, in Opera. Thus, no need of worrying about 3rd-party stuff breaking the browser or being incompatible with a particular version of the suite/browser.

39 minutes into the show … interview with Opera CEO: http://www.webtalkguys.com/mp3/webtalk-7-3-2004.mp3

Also,

http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/
http://www.opera.com/features/
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/WhyOpera

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39 bucks for Opera or you have to look at an ad every time you use it. I don't care if it is smaller its not worth it for what you get. Any speed increase you get is marginal at best.

[alek_nedic]

newsgroup reading client

http://www.analogstereo.com/realtek_ac97_audio_driver_download.htm

[alek_nedic]

39 minutes into the show

http://www.analogstereo.com/reel2reel_revox_a77.htm

[macslut]

FireFox rocks!

The fact that a browser came out that's better than IE is not
surprising. IE is a rotten corpse that hasn't been upgraded in
years. What is surprising is that FireFox is better than Safari on
the Mac.

[nrlz]

pre-release

Firefox is still in it's pre-release state and has been for quite a while yet their developers advertise and promote it's use like it's a final releasable product. They've already broken the first rule of software engineering which is to test before release. Unless of course if they intended the world to be their beta testers like Microsoft or are hiding behind the smoke-screen of Beta-status to divert the bad publicity of discovered bugs in a final product, like ICQ.

[Not Bugged]

Open Source version numbering

Version numbering in the Open Source world is a bit different to the Microsoft world. In the Microsoft world we accept that things won't start working until about Version 4 (only now the version names have changed to years, or non-numeric, we take that as "The 4th release").

In the Open Source world we're still running on a number of tools that are at version 0.9 and have been in use and stable for years. A 0.9 just means "we don't think its quite finished yet so we're not happy to call it 1.0", but a lot of Open Source 0.9s are a lot better than a lot of proprietry 3s and 4s!

I've been using Firefox since about 0.6 or 0.7, and it worked well even at that point in its development cycle.

[alek_nedic]

releasable product

http://www.analogstereo.com/reel2reel_revox_b215.htm

[Not Bugged]

some observations

Too bad this hype isn't over Opera, instead

Hype is something you do to get people to do something, hype may or may not be true. Reporting that FireFox reached a million downloads is a fact, something that already happened.

pre-release?

Yes its a pre-release, one with more features, fewer bugs and fewer security concerns than IE which in its 6th incarnation.