Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads

In just three years, the Spread Firefox campaign has hit the milestone of four hundred million downloads. It all started in November 2004, when Firefox lovers united with an intention of making the web safer and better again. They posted Spread Firefox logos on their web pages, blog or wherever they could. It took them just 99 days to reach 25 million downloads. Within a year, it grew over to 100 million. Two years later, they hit 200 million.

The number keeps doubling every year, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the actual daily users count. Most users download Firefox, but never continue using it. Recently, Mozilla had put up 12 point retention plan to improve the current retention rate.

Congrats to Firefox and Mozilla team. I’m looking forward to see the download meter climb up with the launch of Firefox 3 later this year.

This post was published by on September 9, 2007

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  • http://frozonfreak.blogspot.com Shaz

    firefox rox!!! after all the hard wrk. its paid off well.

  • http://techmantra.net Vikram

    Firefox is the worlds one of the best browser which i ever use, it just Rocks !
    I just love Fire fox :)

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  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    The number keeps doubling every year, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the actual daily users count. Most users download Firefox, but never continue using it. Recently, Mozilla had put up 12 point retention plan to improve the current retention rate.

    Exactly. I just wish more people used Firefox, or at least IE complied to the CSS standards. Until then, working on a website design will always be a bit of pain in the ‘hind quarters’. :P

  • http://www.fatinfo.com Billy

    This is great news. Obviously Firefox has a strong following, and its users are adamant about using it over any other browser on the market.

  • http://www.geekywood.com Uzair

    They say that they have only 120 million users, where did the rest 280 million downloads go.

  • http://www.kungfound.com Matt Arnold

    Wow this is great news! I love firefox and have been using it for years now! definately better than IE. Much better to develop a website for aswel. If only IE could catch-up and make our developer lives easier!

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Uzair: Mozilla is currently facing problems with retaining new users. Not all users who download Firefox remain as regular users. Check out their retention plan

  • http://www.etienneteo.com Etienne Teo

    Firefox is the best browser and it comes with many addons which have cut down on my time browsing other websites, that i can use the addons on 1 browser.

  • http://www.computerblog.org kevin

    400 million is great. Now if it was 400 million users that’d be awesome. Firefox user here for the past 10 months. Wish I started using it sooner.

  • http://www.lases.org Yigit T.

    I think IE 7 is more better than Firefox :)

  • http://www.fotoparked.com Aldimeola

    I think mozilla useful.