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Firefox: On Its Way to Web Domination?
Published February 26th, 2008 in Browser Security, Firefox, Mozilla
According to the folks at Mozilla, the 500 millionth download of the Firefox browser happened last night. That doesn’t, of course, represent a half billion people–I’ve probably downloaded various versions of the browser thirty times myself, for one computer or another–but it’s still a whole lotta downloads, and evidence of the immense popularity of the little browser that could.
I like to do periodic reports of usage of Firefox on PCWorld.com, and these numbers too show Firefox getting more and more popular. The trend for Firefox usage is still trending upwards over time. In fact, January 2008 was the first month during which a third of site visitors–34.36 percent, to be overly exact–used Firefox. PC World’s Techlog Firefox: On Its Way to Web Domination?
