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[DJGM]

In seventy six days, more than sixty three thousand of you have joined the
effort to deliver Firefox 1.0 to more than twenty million thankful users!

You all are simply amazing!!

Full article at SpreadFirefox.com . . .

Firefox Passes 20 Million Downloads
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
January 24, 2005, 10:17 AM

Two and half months after Firefox's 1.0 launch, the Mozilla Foundation has more to celebrate
than non-stop media coverage: Firefox has surpassed 20 million downloads. The milestone
comes just days after new tallies of Web browser usage shows strong gains by the open
source newcomer, which is slowly chipping away at Internet Explorer's dominance.

Click here for the full article at BetaNews . . .

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[Antony]

Congratulations to Mozilla Foundations and Firefox Team.

What happened to Mozilla (Application Suite)? No marketing at all?

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[Al]

Mozilla Suite is likely to be dead in about 2 years from now. More and more people are switching to Firefox, even Mozilla users

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[Antony]

Mozilla Suite is likely to be dead in about 2 years from now. More and more people are switching to Firefox, even Mozilla users

Are they killing those who prefer the integrated suite? Or was that all applications in one suite is too similar to Communicator?

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[Mandrake]

Almost all of the Mozilla Foundation's resources are focused on Firefox and Thunderbird, or so it seems.

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[Al]

Mozilla Suite is likely to be dead in about 2 years from now. More and more people are switching to Firefox, even Mozilla users

Are they killing those who prefer the integrated suite? Or was that all applications in one suite is too similar to Communicator?

Maybe both, some people hated Communicator, they refer it to as a "buggy and slow rigged browser". I think the intergrated suite is done for

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[James]

I've been frustrated through confusion over the direction of Mozilla ever since the demise of Netscape. I simply cannot understand why they decided to go in two different directions but utilize the same rendering engine. What possible benefit could be derived from splitting their developing resources? Why not simply throw everything into the development of Firefox OR the Mozilla Suite and end it at that? At some future jucture, doesn't it seem only logical that these two different branches will come back together? And if so... doesn't it seem only logical that the Firefox/Thunderbird branch will become that new suite... by somehow integrating them in a reasonably tight fashion? After all... most of the resources... most of the advertising is currently alotted to FF/TB so I can't see why this wouldn't be the future.

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[Don_HH2K]

James,
In short, FF/TB and Moz cater to different kinds of people. FF (and TB if it's used) cater to people that want a simple yet powerful application. On the other hand, Mozilla Suite caters to people that want a powerful, full-bloated suite with everything in it. The reason there's more steam on Firefox is because there's more people that want a small standalone application, more familiar to IE, while on the other hand Mozilla's huge-ness isn't appealing to everbody. The reason they haven't just ditched Mozilla is because you have to realize that Mozilla is Firefox and Thunderbird's base. It's like some people that don't like Netscape don't realize that without Netscape, Mozilla would't exist. Same in this scenario: without Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird wouldn't exist.

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[James]

Ah... thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware of this interconnectedness.

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[Al]

I still like Mozilla and Netscape, but some people Firefox because of the extensions and themes that exist. That that much exist for NS7.2 and Moz 1.7.

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[Fulvio]

I still like Mozilla and Netscape, but some people Firefox because of the extensions and themes that exist. That that much exist for NS7.2 and Moz 1.7.

If I understand you correctly, people like FF for the wrong reasons, because there have been extentions and themes all along, although they are becoming rapidly incompatible, with each version.
I think that one has dialup a 4.7 MB download of Firefox looks very attractive, and, you can deal with the mail client later.
Also, think of all the people who unknowingly got themselves without browser and mail client, in the suite.
I think that one one would have to work hard in messing up both browser and mail client.

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[Al]

I have no idea what you said in the last sentence, but somepeople are still on 56k and they want a lite download

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