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.
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wrote, on September 9th, 2007
firefox rox!!! after all the hard wrk. its paid off well.
wrote, on September 9th, 2007
Firefox is the worlds one of the best browser which i ever use, it just Rocks !
I just love Fire fox
wrote, on September 9th, 2007
[...] Firefox Hits 400 Million DownloadsIn 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. … [...]
wrote, on September 9th, 2007
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’.
wrote, on September 10th, 2007
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.
wrote, on September 12th, 2007
They say that they have only 120 million users, where did the rest 280 million downloads go.
wrote, on September 12th, 2007
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!
wrote, on September 12th, 2007
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
wrote, on September 13th, 2007
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.
wrote, on September 13th, 2007
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.
wrote, on September 14th, 2007
I think IE 7 is more better than Firefox
wrote, on September 16th, 2007
I think mozilla useful.