Firefox hits 400 million downloads

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Firefox hits 400 million downloads

by Chris Gilmer Sep 8th 2007

In less than three years, Mozilla's Firefox has amassed 400 million downloads. The whole shift towards using the Firefox web browser was sparked in November 2004 by a Spread Firefox campaign in which tens of thousands of users spawned 25 million downloads. The buttons and banners placed on websites took only a year to grab 100 million downloads, and a year later 200 million.

Now, three years, an award for most recognized brand and 400 million downloads later, Firefox is helping people surf the web better, faster and with a friendlier experience. If you want to be part of the next 400 million users to download the virus and spyware free browser, you too can add some Firefox love to your blog or website.

Tags: browser, firefox, mozilla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

BillyG said 9:53AM on 9-08-2007

Yeah, I've dl'd it about 10x myself... lol

raycosm said 1:02PM on 9-08-2007

400 million downloads =/= 400 million users

That being said, Firefox is almost definitely the best browser

emmzee said 1:29PM on 9-08-2007

Firefox is great, I'm using it right now and use daily ... let's hope they don't screw it up by continuing to add more bloat. I currently have two windows open and it's using 117MB of memory?! (No, I don't a huge number of add-ons, I have a dozen, and most are very small.)

karl@askTheAdmin.com said 2:40PM on 9-08-2007

We are one of those faithful 400 million users and have been since the beta of FF early 2004. We switched from Netscape and never looked back. It just wins hands-down in my book!

Congrats FireFox and Thanks Chris!!

http://www.askTheAdmin.com

RP said 4:04PM on 9-08-2007

It probably also helped that Microsoft made IE7's user interface so weird. I love tabs, but not enough to use IE7's dumbed down user interface.

I do wish Firefox used less memory, and ran faster, like Opera. I often get 20-30 tabs open across 6 windows, and see memory use of 200-400 MB. Ouch! Leaky add-on? Who knows... it's annoying.

forg0ttenclone said 4:19PM on 9-10-2007

Firefox smirefox. It's all about Opera. I've been using opera for close to ten years now. But for some odd reason, Opera lacks the respect it deserves. Hey, at least Nintendo realizes the usefulness of speed that opera provides. However; There is always lynx for textful bliss.

Ethan Dickerson said 10:04AM on 9-11-2007

I'm working to put together a blog of the best freeware for Windows. My list includes Firefox Add-ons (extensions) so you can check out my pics on my Blog. Basically, I've given you links to the suite of Ff extensions I use and continually run with so you get extensions that you know will all work together and you know you are getting the 'best of breed' or the best possible extension in each category. Check it out and if you don't agree, let me know and I'll check out whatever you recommend...
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Ethan Dickenson, Author, Today's 'Best of Breed'
~~~~~A suite of freeware for Windows~~~~~
http://todaysbestofbreed.wordpress.com/

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