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Mozilla has celebrated a milestone from its great hit Mozilla Firefox, reaching 1 billion downloads. The open source browser released its first version in 2004 with nearly 3 million people already using it before it was able to achieve version 1.0.

Firefox has been through dozens of official releases and countless number of nightly builds, a compile of the latest builds, sometimes unstable at night. The browser has seen tremendous success over the last 3 years, bringing in over 30% market share, receiving dozens of awards from IT specialists and software review web sites, and even setting a Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads in a 24 hour period of 8,000,000 downloads.

Firefox leads the way in the open source community with its ability to customize the interface, add-ons, supported plug-ins, and many other extensions that improve the users surfing experience. Of course the number of current Firefox users is much smaller than that of Internet Explorer; the browser has continued to show growth over the course of the last year.

Currently Firefox 3.5 is the new release from Mozilla, showing off its powerful speed with better memory management, improved security and reliability over previous builds. The number of downloads reflects that of Mozilla's statistics over the course of the last couple of years and not that of actual users.

#1 2xSilverKnight on 31 Jul 2009 - 22:29

hurrayy !!

#2 Buttus on 31 Jul 2009 - 22:46

wow, that's a lot of bandwidth! (i know it's over a long time...)

(1 reply) #3 MulletRobZ on 31 Jul 2009 - 23:23

NICE!

Now how long until 2 billion?

#3.1 dimithrak on 03 Aug 2009 - 13:03

lol.. its always that one billion that takes a while..and then a month later.. you'll see a report for 2 billion..lol

(1 reply) #4 gameboy1977 on 31 Jul 2009 - 23:37

no way! they are cheater!

#4.1 Magallanes on 04 Aug 2009 - 15:49

an cheater fox?. it is hard to believe.

#5 omnicoder on 31 Jul 2009 - 23:38

All your download are belong to us.

(2 replies) #6 Digix on 31 Jul 2009 - 23:42

I've been disappointed with 3.5 so far. Never far away are these lovely javascript errors about low memory state or something... never saw them till 3.5 final.

#6.1 2xSilverKnight on 01 Aug 2009 - 00:00

never saw them ever. Did you try creating a new profile ?

#6.2 shhac on 01 Aug 2009 - 01:17

Let me guess - you have 30+ extensions enabled?

(3 replies) #7 gameboy1977 on 01 Aug 2009 - 00:00

I once downloaded firefox, but throw it away already. I hate it so much. I already tested yahoo mail on firefox, but failed.

#7.1 pasty2k2 on 01 Aug 2009 - 00:04

You failed at testing?

Awesome how its 1 billion already, thats a big number. Who will be the first to hit double digit BILLIONS when it comes to downloading? Not far off i imagine!

#7.2 gameboy1977 on 01 Aug 2009 - 02:32

if they will hack into firefox often in the futere? I sense that way too.

#7.3 +dead.cell on 01 Aug 2009 - 03:38

Really? I installed Firefox 3.5 on my grandmother's computer, and she only uses Yahoo for her email. Maybe she's just an undercover computer whiz, but she manages to use Yahoo Mail just dandy...

(1 reply) #8 yxz on 01 Aug 2009 - 01:23

opera>firefox<chrome

#8.1 Sub_Zero_Alchemist on 03 Aug 2009 - 01:19

yxz said,

That's irrelevant. what does that have to do with the article. last time i check
the article wasn't about opera or chrome it was about Firefox.

#9 Raa on 01 Aug 2009 - 02:00

Ahh nothing like a fake counter!

#10 Udedenkz on 01 Aug 2009 - 04:51

Anyone know a custom Firefox build compiled up to SSE4?

(2 replies) #11 cakesy on 01 Aug 2009 - 07:15

Cue all the people who downloaded it a million times each, even thought they hate it and prefer IE in 3, 2, 1....

#11.1 Ozood on 01 Aug 2009 - 15:34

cakesy said,

You mean like the billion that supposedly use firefox but mysteriously keep making up only 20% of web users, but not keeps translating into the supposed death of IE?

#11.2 thornz0 on 01 Aug 2009 - 16:35

Ozood said,

Yeah, because people download it once and are done forever right! *sigh*. Ive been using Firefox for years on multiple computers and I've had to download and install many times for many reasons on a few machines.

#12 tiagosilva29 on 01 Aug 2009 - 08:18

Billion?

(3 replies) #13 EzeAris on 01 Aug 2009 - 20:03

I think that in the last month i have downloaded Firefox more than 20 times, i test the builds on the FTP. Donwload and i like to format-c =D.
1.000.000.000 downloads arent 1.000.000.000 users. And until I download Firefox, i use the best browser, Opera (L)

#13.1 LynxMukka on 02 Aug 2009 - 00:28

LOL, Opera n00b.

#13.2 joker999 on 02 Aug 2009 - 04:36

Your IP still same while you're download 20 times.

#13.3 brentaal on 03 Aug 2009 - 06:29

joker999 said,

Yeah, because EVERYONE has a static IP, right?
...

#14 dbam987 on 03 Aug 2009 - 02:17

1 billion downloads does not equal 1 billion unique users. Still though, Fire Fox does hold a permanent position in my Start Menu, alongside IE and Chrome.

#15 dimithrak on 03 Aug 2009 - 13:04

im happy for FF.. but i've been having issues with mine lately.. sometimes certain sites, I got to reload a couple of times before i can see it.. kinda sucks

.. but I hate to switch from FF

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