September 7, 2007

400 Million Downloads!!!

Back around Valentine’s Day this year, Firefox hit 300 Million Downloads. Today, a little under 7 months later, we celebrate reaching another 100 million downloads! It is important to note this the number of times Fx has been downloaded, not necessarily the number of users which is around 40 million. A quick time line: November 9, 2004 – Fx 1.0 Released February 16, 2005 – 25 Million Downloads April 29, 2005 – 50 Million Downloads November 2, 2005 – 100 Million Downloads November 29, 2005 – Fx 1.5 Released July 31, 2006 – 200 Million Downloads October 24, 2006 –…

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Review: Auto Shutdown

This is going to really a short review as there is not much to say about this add-on. What this extension does is modify the download manager so that your PC (currently only works for Windows) automatically shuts-down once all downloads are done (either completed or failed). This will occur after a one-minute warning count down has lapsed. However, other dialog boxes/alerts such as ‘Save Changes’ may prevent the shutdown for occurring. You can control turn the options on/off via a check box in the download manager (currently not in the extension options): Auto Shutdown works with Firefox 1.5, Firefox…

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