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Firefox Hits One Billion Downloads

by Caleb Johnson on July 31, 2009 at 04:30 PM

It's time for a cyber celebration, folks. Mozilla's popular Firefox browser, which launched in 2002, reached the 1 billion download mark today, making the browser akin to McDonald's Big Mac in popularity.

According to TechCrunch, Mozilla will mark the occasion by launching a new site, www.onebillionplusyou.com (going live on Monday), that will display photos and information about folks who love and use Firefox for their surfing needs. TechCrunch reports that about 30–percent of all people who access the Internet do so with Firefox while about 54-percent use Internet Explorer. That's a dramatic increase when you see consider that about 90-percent used Internet Explorer only a few years ago.

While it's certainly quite an achievement for the Mozilla team, it would've been a lot more interesting if there had been a prize (and balloons) for the one billionth downloader. [From Tech Crunch]

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