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Firefox Hits Landmark 1 Billion Downloads, Seizes 32 Percent of the Market
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-08-03 15:44:35 260
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Mozilla's popular third party browser flexes its muscle
By Jason Mick @ DailyTech
Thanks to a strong release of Firefox 3.5, with millions of copies download in under a day, Mozilla has reached a major landmark in its quest to bring a free third-party full-standards browser to the masses. Firefox reached 1 billion downloads on Friday.
The impressive figure encompasses all downloads of the browser since its release in 2004. More interestingly, W3Schools.com, an internet research firm, is reporting Firefox to have seized 47.9 percent of the market, jumping ahead of Internet Explorer, which it says has a combined marketshare of 39.4 percent for versions 6, 7, and 8.
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