<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:11 PM, David Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.8.collins@gmail.com">david.8.collins@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Jim,</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">I'll mainly comment on 3)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Statistics from the Firefox add-ons site (ordered by popularity) ..</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">#1 </span><b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Adblock Plus: 926,549 weekly downloads</b><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">#2 Coral IE Tab: 105,047 weekly downloads</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">#3 Download Flash and Video: 60,397 weekly downloads</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">ie. Adblock Plus is very popular (almost 1 million downloads a week) and many times more popular than any other FF add-on.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">I don't know whether it is used by the core set of Xubuntu users - but, given it's general popularity, it might.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Adblock Plus improves responsiveness and speed very significantly on some sites.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">I feel that Chrome is still an immature product. In a year or 2, it will be more mature and easier to compare against its competition. I think it is good to have it in the Ubuntu repositories, though, so people can try out the Linux version easily and monitor its progress. I will be.<br>
<br>Just one opinion.<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><font color="#888888"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></font></blockquote><div><br><br>Woo! Constructive opinions and feedback! Thanks, everyone. This is going to be our best release ever.<br>
<br>Jim<br></div></div>