Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads Since 2004

8 September, 2007 (01:37) | Breaking News | By: Kieran

The good people at Spread Firefox announced today that there has been more then 400 million downloads of Firefox since November 9th, 2004. The numbers of how quickly Firefox has spread since its launch are impessive:

It took 99 days to reach 25 million downloads of Firefox.
It took 6 months to reach 50 million downloads.
It took 1 year to reach 100 million downloads.
Downloads of Firefox have been doubling every year since its launch.

Like a lot of people I am a huge fan and supporter of not only Firefox but also the open source movement. The contribution Firefox has made to the technology community goes far deeper then just providing a better and safer internet browser, it has brought a new way of thinking to the main stream. Let’s hope that we continue to see innovation and cutting edge technologies coming from the power of the masses and not just from money hungry corporations.