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Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the grats-little-browser dept.

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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  1. Opera! by Tadrith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Firefox has never really done much for me. I can't really say why. Some of it is the loading time when you launch it, some of it is how the layout gets under my skin. I've had a few bad experiences with it in the past, too. I just never took to it.

    However, I did decide to try Opera 9.23. I hadn't tried Opera in quite some time. I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised, and really happy with the way Opera works. So, yeah, I guess I'm one of those weirdo Opera users now. :P

    (No real point to the post, I'm just really digging Opera.)