Firefox Hits One Billion Downloads
Mozilla has announced that the company's Firefox browser has reached a milestone of one billion downloads.
Late last week the company announced its onebillionplusyou site to celebrate the fact that, in the five years since it launched firefox 1.0, the Mozilla community has downloaded Firefox a huge one billion times.
Designed to celebrate what Mozilla has done so far, the site also includes a few nifty facts about the number one billion. For example, did you know that one billion credit cards equal the weight of fifty two blue whales? Or that a bowl big enough to house one billion goldfish would need to be the size of a stadium?
Funny facts aside, it's a huge achievement, no matter what kind of numbers the competition can lay claim to (IE8 has achieved 200 million downloads in the last four months alone). How many of you can say you are a part of the mozilla community? Let us know in the comments below!
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Despite my rants in other posts on the IE vs Firefox issue involving the EU, I actually like Firefox!!!
They have managed to carve out a loyal fanbase with an easy to use interface and it actually works! All this from a piece of freeware that isn't bundled. Well done. They got here purely on technical merit, because if the software was rubbish then being free wouldn't have made a differance.
Now do everyone a favour and ask the EU to stop being on your side, they are making you look bad by association, you are doing just fine all by yourself.
@ back_by_demand
I don't think it's totally true to say that firefox isn't bundled. I got it bundled with Ubuntu and Fedora.
That's beside the point though. It's still a great, free browser and a good choice to have in the browser market. I always download it for my windows partitions as well and use it as my default browser.
Small potatoes, I meant bundled with Windows but I was hoping to keep the post small. Even so, the Ubuntu and Fedora bundlings don't really chip away at IE. All said and done, Firefox has done a good job, as long as it doesn't implode it should do fine.
Firefox is brilliant and I am part of that community.
After virus issues with IE I moved to Firefox and discovered open-source software. That lead to me dumping Outlook in favour of Thunderbird. Things were getting better so I then replaced MS Office with Open Office. Even better. So now I've dumped Windows and discovered a system so much more user friendly and so much more efficient. No viruses, no trojans, no spyware and no payments!!! Ubuntu is certainly the way forward at the moment.
Windows and its' ancillaries are the Mammoths of the past doomed to extinction and if Ubuntu can't do it, Google's new operating system certainly will.
Firefox is my favourite browser, together with the plugin Fasterfox, It has speeds to rival Chrome, It has a great array of plugins to suit, Such as Adblock Plus, Downthemall, Linkification and many more in my opinion it is the best browser out there.