Re: [News] Mozilla Firefox Exceeding 200,000,000 Download

["Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Oliver Wong wrote:
>
> > "Jim" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:kLIzg.53566$1g.140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/24502
> > > >
> > > > Comment: let's just wait and see how many people simply let Windows
> > > > update
> > > > itself. To make competition 'fair', Internet Explorer 7 will install
> > > > itself on all Windows XP machines. We shall see if OneCare will wipe
> > > > Opera
> > > > and Firefox. Ironically, Windows users need IE in order to get Firefox
> > > > or Opera installed.
> > >
> > > What, you mean they can't just tick the box in YaST?
> > > Oh, my bad, they don't have YaST.
> > > Apt?
> > > Nope, not that either.
> > > Does Windows have anything?
> > > Answers on a postcard, please, to...
> >
> >     If you're "hardcore", you can telnet directly to http port of
> >     Mozilla's
> > server and download FF that way.
>
> smart arse.
> tho I was waiting for someone to come up with that option, just so I could
> ask them: would Joe Sixpack know to do that?

   If Joe Sixpack is "hardcore", then yes.

   FWIW, I think if you say "YaST" to Joe Sixpack, he'd think it was some 
sort of feminine hygiene product.

   - Oliver