Firefox: 1,000,000,000 Downloads is not a Fish Tale - The UpStream

Over the past several years it has sure been exciting to see the web continuously evolve. Today, the applications are endless and continue to grow while competition is soaring at an all time high. It seems that Google, Microsoft, Firefox, Apple etc. all want to be the "go to guys" for your Internet experience. Friday, July 31st Firefox broke 1,000,000,000 downloads. This figure also includes updates that were purposely downloaded as well but don't let the numbers fool you.

This does not mean that 1 billion people use Firefox; that statistic means something else entirely. As it stands it's estimated that 300,000,000 actually do use Firefox which should be applauded as it continues to cut into Internet Explorers monstrous share of the market and sits at the #2 spot in front of Safari, Chrome, Opera and others. Currently IE8 has surpassed 200,000,000 downloads and that has been over the 4 months since its release. The 1 billion downloads for Firefox go back to Version 1.0 almost 5 years ago. To keep up with Firefox you can visit www.onebillionplusyou.com.