{"id":21,"date":"2005-11-17T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:08:56","slug":"firefox-download-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/firefox-download-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Download Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that many will take offense at this post, so before I say anything more, let me just clarify my stance on the browser-battle (again).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I used IE 6 for about two months, then switched promptly to what was then known as Phoenix (which I had been using before off and on). IE 6 just did not have the cutting edge technology that I was looking for.<\/li>\n<li>I stuck with Phoenix\/Firebird\/Firefox throughout the years, trying out Avast, Opera, Maxthon, SlimView, and the rest.<\/li>\n<li>IE 7 Beta seemed to be what I was looking for, but it was too buggy, so I&#8217;m still on Firefox. I love Firefox, I just think there is major room for improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a post on a subject explored all over the web, but with an extra ingredient!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Firefox &#8216;download count&#8217; and &#8216;user count&#8217; are unfortunately taken from the same number. Every time a download is made, it gets added to a number that does not differentiate between an ex-IE user, and a hardcore Firefox user. If it does, its not made publicly available.<\/li>\n<li>Firefox &#8216;download count&#8217; includes downloads of new versions, especially since there are no hotfixes, and everytime a mis-spelling is corrected, a new version ships out :(<\/li>\n<li>Firefox claims to have &#8216;taken back&#8217; the web that was never theirs. See <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/taking-back-the-web\/\" rel=\"follow\">previous article<\/a> for more info.<\/li>\n<li>Even when a IE user tries out Firefox, the bureaucrats and fan boys at Mozilla claim that they have a convert, or as they think of it, a revert (don&#8217;t ask ME why).<\/li>\n<li>Users downloading copies to replace lost or deleted versions, or for multiple PCs count as different &#8216;people.&#8217; I have personally downloaded Firefox over 200 times, just for myself.<\/li>\n<li>\nSince the introduction of Google&#8217;s $1 per Firefox convert, suddenly all those AdSense click-fraud con-artists found themselves a new hobby.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What about how the downloads are counted?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taken by every request. Meaning that the download count is not increased upon completion of the download, but rather upon every time you press the download button.<\/li>\n<li>Download accelerators with their file mirroring and simultaneous downloads have each thread counted as a separate download. I personally always use GetRight with 10 threads. Do the math yourself.<\/li>\n<li>\nPeople simply clicking to raise the count end up raising the count. No IP-based filtering\/per day or something of that sort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the end, I think FF is the very best browser out there as of now. Every night I download the latest nightly build (if changed), which BTW I did not include in the above&#8230; Though I do think that all those hard workers at Bugzilla downloading the latest CVS copies end up bringing the count up and up.<br \/>\nFirefox is great, The Mozilla Foundation is brilliant, but some tricks just make you look bad in the end. At every forum I frequent, Mozilla&#8217;s claim of 2 Million switchers, and 11.5% percent of the market share was treated anywhere from with extreme caution to outright ridicule&#8230; It&#8217;s just not worth it Mozilla, trust me, it ain&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that many will take offense at this post, so before I say anything more, let me just clarify my stance on the browser-battle (again). I used IE 6 for about two months, then switched promptly to what was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/firefox-download-conspiracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}