jeudi 26 juin 2008

Visiting the Nerds paradise

My dear nerdy friends, just picture this: a big bar where you can have drinks with friends, with good and inexpensive beer a computer museum in which half of the items displayed are things that you have owned or used 20 years ago and the other half were pictured in your wildest dreams. Oh, and you  […]

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samedi 21 juin 2008

Heading to Slovenia!

A couple of months ago, the team over at Kiberpipa has contacted us in order to organize a Firefox event in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The schedule of the event was just announced. It's going to be a busy day, with a press conference, followed by talks about Mozilla (Zbigniew will help,  […]

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jeudi 19 juin 2008

Firefox 3 launch press coverage

With more than 8 million downloads, the Download Day is an amazing success. Firefox 3 market share, measured in real time by Net Applications is North of 6%, just 36 hours after the launch. But besides download numbers, the idea of setting a Guinness book record was immensely effective to get the  […]

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mercredi 18 juin 2008

I hear servers screeching!

The demand for the new Firefox 3 browser has been simply overwhelming. As I write this, the number of downloads is at 6.5 million (with around 6000 new downloads taking place every minute) so we are well on the way to breaking the Guinness World Record (Firefox 2 was downloaded 1.6 million times on  […]

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lundi 9 juin 2008

Who's leading the Firefox Download Day race?

I recently saw that Poland passed the 50000 mark on the European part of the map, which made it the first European country to do so. Go Poles! Download day map of Europe as of Sunday June 8th, 2008.png Now, it's hard to compare countries, because of the diversity of sizes. Of course the US is  […]

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dimanche 8 juin 2008

Firefox on video in Italy!

Giuliano talking about Firefox 3 on Adnkronos Giuliano and Schrep demoing Firefox in Milan. It's amazing how talking in Italian makes a great product even sexier (Schrep is the ever traveling VP of Engineering and Giuliano is one of our volunteers in Italy, leading the very dynamic Mozilla Italia  […]

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samedi 7 juin 2008

Developer quote of the day

I stumbled this morning on a great quote from Edwin Khodabakchian, who develops Feeddo/Feedly, posted on Scoble's blog : We did some benchmarking between firefox 2.0 and firefox 3.0 on one of our applications which uses heavily Javascript, DHTML and timers and the results are very impressive: a much  […]

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Firefox: 20% more active users in 6 months

Ken Kovash, over at the Metrics blog posts some significant information: we’ve surpassed 60 million active daily users. But Ken also links to a post by John Lilly dated January 2008, which mentioned that we had passed the 50 million active daily users[1]. If I read this right, we have gained 10  […]

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