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Mozilla: 'Glitch' cost us millions of downloads

article published on 4 November, 2012

Harvey Anderson, Mozilla on business and legal affairs, has claimed today that a Microsoft 'glitch' has cost the company between 6 and 9 million downloads of their Firefox browser. Earlier in the year, the European Commission began an investigation into whether Microsoft had failed to properly distribute the "browser ballot" to new Windows users in Europe. The ballot gives new Windows ... [ read the full article ]

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Qliphah
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_ 		5. November 2012 @ 09:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
As opposed to the millions lost when they released 16.0 and immediately retracted it? Leaving a lot of people still hesitant to go back. The fast update cycle is what's making them lose loyal followers.

A "ballot" to allow new users to choose a browser is hardly preventing people from downloading and using firefox....
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Tarsellis
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_ 		8. November 2012 @ 21:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Qliphah:
 As opposed to the millions lost when they released 16.0 and immediately retracted it? Leaving a lot of people still hesitant to go back. The fast update cycle is what's making them lose loyal followers.

A "ballot" to allow new users to choose a browser is hardly preventing people from downloading and using firefox....
Exactly right. When we're still for the most part functionally on a late version 4, but "fast upgrade cycles" break everything every 3 weeks. Firefox has completely driven me away, and since nothing is guaranteed to work a month later, I advise those I support to avoid it as well.
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jhvance
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_ 		25. November 2012 @ 17:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Like Microsoft really didn't know the "glitch" was there after all of the beta testing had been done....
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