Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

1,000,000+ firefox 3 download pledges - June 10, 2008

Today we rolled past the one million mark in Firefox 3 download pledges over at the Firefox Download Day site. Wow. In less than 2 weeks, more than a million Firefox fans have signed up to help set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours! I find that just phenomenal. You know, with every one of these community marketing programs, from The New York Times ad in 2004 to Firefox Flicks to the Firefox crop circle to Operation Firefox and now Download Day 2008, I am..
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2008/06/1000000_firefox.html

two million active daily users - June 10, 2008

Firefox 3 pre-releases are over 2 million active daily users. Schrep's got a great chart and blog post here showing the usage growth since Firefox 3 Alpha 2. 2M active daily users is for pre-release software is pretty amazing. For a browser, something that's really quite fundamental to computing today, it's beyond amazing. Firefox 3 pre-releases has by now certainly eclipsed Opera 9.x to take over the forth fifth most used browser spot, behind IE 7, IE 6, Firefox 2, and Safari 3.x.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2008/06/two_million_act.html

responsible logo usage - repost - June 7, 2008

Just about every day I run across someone using Firefox's ancient, pre-1.0 logo. To most people it won't be obvious or it won't seem like a big deal, but it's a real peeve of mine so I'm asking you all to help me spread the word. Below, I've provided a sample illustrating the two logos and offering some suggestions for quickly identifying which logo you're looking at. In addition, I'm providing a couple of links to the correct image in several sizes and formats. If you all could, please...
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2008/06/responsible_log_1.html