Firefox hits 500 million downloads

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Firefox hits 500 million downloads

by Todd Ritter Feb 22nd 2008

Firefox, the second most popular web browser behind IE 6/7, reached a milestone of 500 million downloads. Firefox has been around for about 4 years, and it has gradually gained market share for a myriad reasons: open source, extension support, skin support, lack of Active X support, etc.

We thought about baking Firefox another cake but it felt a little decadent given that Firefox is asking users to head over to FreeRice and play their games to help donate rice to those in need. Something about eating butter-creme frosting and thinking of starving children just didn't work so well. Instead, by playing FreeRice and choosing the correct meaning of the displayed word, you'll send 20 grains of rice -- per word -- to an area of the world in need.

Congrats Firefox, here's to reaching the next milestone!

Tags: downloads, firefox

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

jason said 11:52AM on 2-22-2008

welldone firefox ;-)

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JayMonster said 2:28PM on 2-22-2008

Well done, and well deserved!

campbellwaterman said 3:06PM on 2-22-2008

Firefox deserves all the praise it gets.

Jonathan said 3:45PM on 2-22-2008

Yay! I've recently noticed that over 55% of the traffic to my site uses Firefox. Sweet. 30 something percent still use the craptastic IE.

I use pretty much all browsers for something or another. Mainly Opera, Flock (which is just a fancy distribution of Firefox), and Firefox itself. I try never to use IE, only for testing.

Boom!

michael said 7:32PM on 2-22-2008

I wonder how much IE7 is current on. Anyone who uses IE6 really is in the stone age.

CHRISTIAN said 1:15AM on 2-25-2008

WHATS THA FiRST MOST POPULAR WEB BROWZER??

Todd Ritter said 7:50AM on 2-25-2008

As the article states, the first most popular browser(s) is Internet Explorer from Microsoft.

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