Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads

Owen Dansley writes "Firefox hit another milestone this past Friday, when it passed the 400 million download mark. From its launch in 2004 it took one year to reach 100 million downloads, hitting 200 million downloads just one year later. According to figures released by US consultancy firm Janco and the IT Productivity Center, Firefox currently has 17.4 percent of the browser market — up 5.6 percentage points in the last year. Also within the last year, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dropped 9.6 percentage points to a market share of 63.9 percent."

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Re:Ahem...

[quantum bit]

If you look at those usage statistics, Firefox is only a fragment below IE6, and quite a bit above IE7. Of course, I have no way of knowing how accurate these are, but I tend to trust W3 content.

1. w3schools.com is not operated by the W3C.
2. The page you linked mentions that the usage stats for a site geared toward web developers will be skewed toward alternative browsers

auto-update doesn't count

[cyfer2000]

auto-update is not count as download. The 400 million number doesn't include auto-update.

Sigh, if only it were true!

[tjstork]

IExplore is only a U/I wrapper around a collection of objects that IE exposes. Some of those objects are used by the shell. This is why Microsoft walked into court, correctly, and said that IE was a part of the operating system, and, if you got rid of everything that was truly a part of IE, the desktop would not work. But, hey, that's just Microsoft saying that.... I'm just going by what Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and all the other guys said at the Netscape trial, and continue to say...

"It's all integrated!!!" So be it. And Firefox is better, because it's NOT.