The mobile app market, currently still led by app trailblazer Apple, is continuing to grow at a rapid pace: according to new research from Gartner there will be nearly 46 billion mobile app downloads made this year, nearly double the 25 billion downloads in 2011. Among those downloads, free will continue to reign supreme: 89% of those downloads worldwide will cost nothing.
Firefox 4 downloads continue to outpace IE9 downloads, despite the fact that Microsoft has started pushing the new browser via Windows Update.
It’s time to break out the bubbly and party favors as Google has just achieved another major milestone. As Google now has 675,000 apps and games available in the Play Store, it can now lay claim to having over a whopping 25 billion downloads. This means as the number of Android users continues to trend upwards, so too the number of downloads in the Play Store.
Well, that didn’t take too long — Google has just announced that it now has another app-related milestone under its proverbial belt.
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During downloads, the top command shows the Firefox process at 100% CPU. Yesterday I tried to download an .iso image. After a few hours the Firefox window would not refresh nor would it respond to input. I tried the wget command. It used negligible CPU time and completed in 28 minutes.
This problem is easy to reproduce because it happens every time I download a file in Firefox.
I do this on Scientific Linux 6.3 (to implement it, it requires a minimal Linux knowledge):
SHARED DOWNLOADS DIRECTORY
adduser ffuser
passwd VERYVERYGOODPWD
groupadd ffgroup
vi /etc/group # add ffuser and the normal user to the end of the ffgroup line.
Hi there guys i hav a problem with firefox downloads, whenever i try to open the download this stupid dialog appears i dont know whats wrong..
I have recently installed kubuntu alongside Arch with Kde and decided to use Firefox as my default browser because I'm not very fond of rekonq.
Some time after I installed it I realized that my downloads did not have icons and Firefox sometimes had trouble opening them appropriately.
Is this a bug or some misconfiguration?
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