Spread Firefox reports that Firefox has been downloaded 90,000,000 times. Firefox 1.0 was downloaded 1,000,000 on the day it was released and 10,000,000 that month following it’s release. Firefox 1.0 was released on the 9th November last year. It is likely Firefox 1.5 will be released November this year. It’d be really nice for Firefox 1.0 to hit 100,000,000 downloads before November when 1.5 is due to be released. Version 1.5 is shaping up really nicely and I can’t wait for deployment and to begin using canvas and SVG on my websites.

Version 1.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 was released today fixing several bugs and security holes in Firefox 1.0. A lot of people have been claiming recently Firefox isn’t more secure – there have been 7 security updates since the original release of Firefox 1.0. Like any software, Firefox is bound to have some bugs. With a market share approaching 10%, as far as I know there are still no widespread exploits of any Firefox security vulnerabilities and the Mozilla Foundation have been exceptionally fast to fix security vulnerabilities. Microsoft in contrast may take several months.

Normal users also experience safer surfing in that there are less popups and they are not prompted to install ActiveX controls all the time. Security shouldn’t be measured only by the number of security holes in the application, but also how the product is protecting you from those nasties on the web.

Upgrading from Opera 8.0?

Jesse Ruderman writes:

Opera users who liked the site-targeted Google ads
should not continue using Opera 8.0x because it contains known security
holes, but they are invited to switch to Firefox and install Adbar.