Mozilla Firefox Download Counter

Firefox Reaches One Billion Downloads [UPDATED]

John Paczkowski in News on July 31, 2009 at 7:29 am PT

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.