The one billion downloads milestone includes users downloading multiple copies for different computers as well as any manual downloads for upgrading purposes, though not any automatic updates. With so many users, it’s now holding about 31% marketshare, second only to that ornery old dinosaur Internet Explorer at around 60% (Opera, Chrome and Safari are all below 5%). Once Firefox Mobile and the oddly Chrome-like Firefox 4.0 come out, we can expect that number to skyrocket even more. Congratulations and mazel tov, Mozilla. [BBC]
DansDans
Monday, August 3, 2009 at 1:45 PMits still as slow as all hell though – why does it take Firefox about 2 – 4 minutes to load up to a useable state on my laptop yet IE takes about 10 seconds?
Daina Thomas
Monday, August 3, 2009 at 3:11 PMI have been using Firefox .. frm last 3 yrs .. and since then I have not used Internet explorer .. I like firefox .. because of it’s add ons and extensions .. they ar ereally very help .. the features which we have or we can have in firefox are not in any other browser whether its Internet explorer.. or Google’s Chrome browser .. the speed is really good in Google chrome browser .. but Firefox makes the usage of applications and regular websites .. really very easy .. you are just a click away .. rather typing the whole thing .. and the themes are simply grt …