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February 21, 2008

500 Million Downloads of Firefox (almost)

Michael Arrington

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The Firefox browser has been downloaded nearly 500 million times, says their SpreadFirefox website. Parent organization Mozilla is celebrating by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice. That, says Mozilla, is enough to feed 25,000 people for a day.

Earlier this month we reported that Firefox 3, beta version 3, had been released. The browser has around 17% market share worldwide and 150 million active users.

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    February 21st, 2008 at 11:54 pm

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    February 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 am

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  1. Hustle Strategy

    February 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    This is great. Congrats FireFox, as I post from firefox…

  2. Technicle

    February 21st, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    Lousy browser. FF3 equally lousy. Hopeless.

  3. Hood Workout

    February 21st, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    This is cool. Donating is a great way to celebrate.

  4. Technicle

    February 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    Confusing patrons with both Foundation and Corporation models is EVIL.

  5. Matt W.

    February 21st, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    This makes it sound like FF3 beta has a 17% market share, which obviously isn’t what was intended …

  6. Search◆ Engines WEB

    February 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    So many major security improvements have been made in IE 7 for Vista that geeks may fell comfortable using it once it catches on.

    The one big selling point in FireFox continues to be the innovative add on /extensions.

    They really add another dimension to browsing for power users :-D

  7. Michael Arrington

    February 21st, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    technicle, you’re probably three more comments from being banned.

  8. Technicle

    February 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Mike - Thanks for the note. Because of the bold, or because of the opinion?

  9. Technicle

    February 21st, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    In any case, fine, and see you later. Cheers. 8-)

  10. Wes

    February 21st, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    I am sure it wont be long before the number reaches 1 billion. Not so long ago the number reached 400 million and its been quick to get to 500 million.

  11. Zeke

    February 21st, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    I now use Safari 3.0 on Windows, it is quite good, but FF still has an advantage of large collection of plugins.

  12. Orchid

    February 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Hey this is great news. I don’t know what i’ll do without my Firefox browser. I love the tabs and other cool features. Most of the time, it’s faster than IE too.

  13. Benoit

    February 21st, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    I would agree with Technicle, I also find some of FF’s ways very questionable. A lot of their marketing on spreadfirefox.com is based on saying that Microsoft is evil, while Firefox is open source. They like to downplay the fact that they earned ~$70M last year primarily thanks to Google (who of course discreetly supports them).

    I’m not overly impressed by FF technically-speaking vs. IE, but I think their marketing is impressive (though evil).

  14. Sean Ness

    February 21st, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    20,000 grains of rice in one day/per person. Don’t know about you, but that seems like a LOT!

  15. Your Daddy

    February 21st, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    I don’t think it means much anymore. MSFT is not really interested in protecting something that doesn’t make money for them. FF3B3 is pretty cool and I’m a MSFT Fan Boy. But I must admit I also like Safari for Windows 3.0.4 Beta and so I’ve learned to just use browsers for what they work best with. Like OWA is always best on IE ;-)

  16. sandeep

    February 21st, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    i am one among them

    i use it

  17. Opera user

    February 21st, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    Good for Firefox….Opera is better though….

  18. Ujwal

    February 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 am

    what an arse “technicle”…

    if u want to do a critcism.. its better to be a bit reasonable like:

    FF3 sucks because i find a lot of bugs, its engine is slow.. etc etc”

    or quit trolling .. you fail at that too.

  19. Technicle

    February 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 am

    @Ujwal
    Probably it’s your first time reading my comments here. I’ve stated the reasons many times before. People will be reasonable if FF people listen. Do they? What an arse. My last comment on this FF junk.

  20. Technicle

    February 22nd, 2008 at 2:02 am

    and, @Ujwal, to save your arsking:
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....nt-1982442
    any ff ppl care to comment, you’ve my email address thereon — i’d presume i’m banned after this post.

  21. I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

    February 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 am

    Being a pampered Westerner, when I think of 500 million grains of rice my first thought is “Ugh”.

    Maybe TechCrunchers could club together to match Mozilla’s donation with 25,000 chicken breasts, poppadoms and jars of Patak’s Tikka Masala curry sauce.

  22. Chris

    February 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 am

    They reached 500 million figure now, congrats for fighting the Microsoft menace.

  23. jean rémy

    February 22nd, 2008 at 4:21 am

    Well, I guess a few tones of rice is just nothing for Mozilla compared to the huge revenue they get on the back of the involvment of free and blind developpers.
    Hey… FF or Mozilla is not a foundation, just a intelligent worldwide company !
    In whose pockets is going all this money ???

  24. syamsulariff.com

    February 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 am

    im using mozilla too..lets spread the firefox and help them to reach 500..

  25. Planet Malaysia

    February 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 am

    I’m fans of Firefox :) Congratulations!

  26. Rushabh Choksi

    February 22nd, 2008 at 9:08 am

    congrats fire fox. i am one of your user. btw i haven’t yet tried ff3 beta but hopefully it is bug free.

  27. ravi

    February 22nd, 2008 at 10:08 am

    at Technicle

    You are warned because this is not a post for criticism. Better find a forum where people are discussing FF drawbacks

  28. AllHolyBooks.com

    February 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Very good news…

    I use Firefox from the start, and I am a big supporter…

  29. Hopskotch

    February 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    I just wish more people would jump onto firefox than ie. Being a developer, I develop for IE cuz it has the most quirks and css acts the weirdest in that browser. I develop in IE cuz i know firefox will do what it is supposed to.

  30. Technicle

    February 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    @ravi - thank you, greatest advise ever.
    In case you’re curious of why the angry “troll” — it’s becos this ff thing wasted a lot of webapp developers (and my developers in particular) way too much time, period.

  31. franky

    February 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    Too bad those stats don’t include all the FireBird and Phoenix downloads. If they do, I stand corrected.

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