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Friday, July 31, 2009

Firefox Reaches One Billion Downloads [UPDATED]

ff_billion_thumb Once the plucky underdog in the browser battle, Mozilla’s Firefox is today the second most popular browser worldwide, after Internet Explorer. Since it was first released in November 2004, the browser has succeeded not just in dislodging IE from its dominant market position, but in proving that an open-source project can become a widely used consumer application. At 7:47 am PDT this morning, the browser reached its billionth download.

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QOTD DD Shorty

It would be more surprising to me if Google didn’t do something in the browser space. After all, Google is 100 percent on the Web.”

– Mozilla CEO John Lilly on Google’s incursion into the browser space

Posted at 1:40 PM PT

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Firefox 3: 6.5 7 Million Downloads and Counting …

Looks like Firefox 3 Download Day will be one for the record books after all. Though its servers were initially overwhelmed by the volume of download requests yesterday, Mozilla soon had the Firefox 3 download site humming along nicely. Within five hours it had broken Firefox 2’s single-day record of 1.6 million downloads and by 5 a.m. PDT today–18 hours into its world record attempt–it had already blown the doors off the 5 million mark it had set for itself with 6,424,790 downloads.

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Monday, March 24, 2008

Apple Auto-Update Installs Mozilla CEO Tirade

Back in 2005, word on the street had it that the Mozilla Foundation was making as much as $30 million annually from the Google search box in its open-source Firefox Web browser.
Turns out, that number probably wasn’t too far off. According to an independent auditor’s report, Mozilla made $66.8 million in revenue in 2006, quite [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

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