{"id":379,"date":"2009-08-03T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actusa.net\/~stu\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-08-03T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:03:31","slug":"firefox-reaches-its-1-billionth-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/firefox-reaches-its-1-billionth-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Reaches it&#8217;s 1 Billionth Download!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>Firefox Web Browser enjoys it&#8217;s 1 Billionth download.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Wow, who would have thought that an open source project could do so well against the big &#8220;M&#8221;. Experts are saying that Firefox now has 32% of the browser market. This is probably the net result of all those crap plugins and the rest of the shoddy code that Micro$oft has been dumping on to the Internet these last 15 years. Looks like people are finally getting wise, at least when it comes to browsing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is a sign that the end user is starting to get it. Maybe Open Office, with it&#8217;s safer interface to the network, and it&#8217;s open standard file format will make a play for the end user desktop&#8230; Or maybe not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, with this news, we can all say that open source has made a difference in a lot of peoples lives, and will continue to do so for a long time to come!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Mozilla developers, you&#8217;ve done good!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Stu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox Web Browser enjoys it&#8217;s 1 Billionth download. Wow, who would have thought that an open source project could do so well against the big &#8220;M&#8221;. Experts are saying that Firefox now has 32% of the browser market. This is probably the net result of all those crap plugins and the rest of the shoddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,3],"tags":[78,76,77,75,190],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktop","category-internet","category-open-source","tag-browser-wars","tag-firefox","tag-market-share","tag-mozilla","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}