Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads

nk497 writes with this selection from PC Pro magazine: "Microsoft's failure to include the EU browser ballot in Windows 7 SP1 cost Mozilla as many as 9 million Firefox downloads, the organisation's head of business affairs revealed. Harvey Anderson said daily downloads of Firefox fell by 63% to a low of 20,000 before the ballot was reinstated, and after the fix, downloads jumped by 150% to 50,000 a day. Over the 18 months the ballot was missing, that adds up to six to nine million downloads — although it's tough to tell if the difference has more to do with Chrome's success or the lack of advertising on Windows systems. The EU is currently investigating the 'glitch,' and Microsoft faces a massive fine for failing to include the screen, which offers download details for different browsers to European Windows users, as part of measures ordered by the EU to balance IE's dominance." Reader Dupple points to coverage at ZDnet, too.

Holy shit!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's three days ago!

Sounds familiar

[Bogtha]

Reader Bogtha points to coverage at Slashdot [slashdot.org], too.

Re:Super Duper

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot: Editor glitch causes excessive reposting!

(News at 11)

Re:Super Duper

[Anonymous Coward]

I suspect within a week we will see the news singularity, at which point the same story will be the only article on Slashdot, reposted for ever.

Or better editorial control.

Re:Super Duper

[msauve]

You have to give timothy a break. It's obvious that he can't read, and has simply been trained to click a button for food.

Timothy must be sad

[captain_dope_pants]

Dupe submissions could easily be avoided if Timothy was happy - causing his brain to produce a level of gamma waves - specifically those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory.

Re:Super Duper

[crazyjj]

Tomorrow's headline: "Mozilla Claims Slashdot Dupe Cost Them 2 Billion Downloads."

Re:Holy shit!

[an00bis]

yo, dawg, I herd you like old news, so I put old news in your old news so you can reminisce while you deja vu

Re:Im sure it was Chrome

[Anonymous Coward]

Well if you would stop playing Farmville and using Failbook then you wouldn't have that kind of trouble with Firefox now would you?