Firefox Approaches 1 Billion Downloads, Could Hit It Tomorrow

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12 points·peter123··9 comments

And it only took them 5 years to reach that. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004

Firefox and Chrome will sure change the browser landscape in the years to come. The playing field will change dramatically once Chrome gains a good traction. And we have Chrome OS coming up. So lets hope for more exciting things.

I'm not sure how much of IE & Safari's recent quality is dues to this competition. But if it is as much as I suspect, they already have.

An interesting result will be if we have 4-5 significant players + mobile variations + (maybe) netbook/tablet variations.

Having that many options does make the browser market seem healthier, but how does that make the search wars look?

- Perhaps its different because the profits it generates aren't equal to search.

Yeah, it took this long to get to a bill?? Not that it's a good comparison, but Apple had a billion iphone app downloads in it's first year.

by that logic, we should count all the Firefox extension downloads too

I'm responsible for at least 100 of them.

Family and friends: your welcome... and no I won't fix your computer, again.

This should go up dramatically once Microsoft adds firefox to it's list of browsers included in its OS.

I guess technically, the downloads won't go up, but usage almost certainly will.

-I respectfully disagree, think the downloads will still go up because even though the user(s) who bought the computer wont need to download it, the user(s) will surely tell others about how much better it is than IE; thus, others will download it because of word of mouth. --Or that's what I expect to happen.

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