Office applications Toolkit

Firefox hits 400 million downloads

David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 10 Sep 2007 14:47 BST

The popular open-source browser Firefox hit another milestone on Friday when it passed the 400 million download mark.

The browser, distributed by Mozilla, appears to be enjoying exponential growth in terms of downloads. From its launch in 2004, it took one year to reach 100 million downloads. A year later, it hit 200 million downloads.

In a message posted on its website, Spread Firefox, Firefox's community marketeers, thanked users for helping to achieve the latest download figures. "With your amazing efforts, Firefox has reached 400 million downloads and demonstrated that not even the world's most powerful companies can keep people from a better, safer, and faster web experience," the team wrote.

Read this

Q&A: Be alert to booby-trapped web pages

Trend Micro chief technology officer Raimund Genes warns that online life is about to get much hairier...

It is difficult to judge the exact share of the browser market enjoyed by Firefox. The most recent statistics published by W3Counter suggest that Firefox holds a quarter of the market, but most other organisations releasing such statistics suggest a slightly lower figure.

According to figures released on Friday by US consultancy firm Janco and the IT Productivity Center, Firefox currently has 17.4 percent of the browser market — up 5.6 percentage points in the last year. Also within the last year, Microsoft's market-leading Internet Explorer browser dropped 9.6 percentage points to a market share of 63.9 percent.

Did you find this article useful?
14 out of 14 people found this useful

More In Office applications

Company/Topic Alerts

Create a new alert from the list below:

Related Jobs

Competitive Analysis Architect

Triangulate findings with Accenture competitive analysis team to ensure that financial and deal data is current and consistent with other data ...

Project Officer

Plan and attend regular meetings as required with other members of the team/organisation and follow up on any action points as necessary. What we do ...

SAS Modeller - Credit Risk - SAS - London

A degree in a relevant subject such as Maths or Statistics is essential for this role along with someone who has the ability to use analytics to ...

Featured Talkback

Why do so many (virtually all) software packages think that they are so important that they have to be started automatically every time the computer boots? What is the largest number of "speed access", "update check", "camera download" and whatever other background programs you have ever seen running? Of those, how many did you really need?