Where were you when Firefox passed 1 billion downloads? It happened sometime yesterday, some five years after its first release, in 2004.
It’s been a heck of a ride, I guess. Once named Phoenix, Firefox now has something like 31 percent of the Web browsers market. Internet Explorer—now with a free Nickelback song!—still has 60 percent of the market. Other browsers, including Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, and Opera, come in at less than 5 percent.
As to the question, where were you when Firefox hit 1 billion downloads? I was probably on the couch, watching Real Madrid get smashed by Juventus.
And this is what Firefox 4.0 (for Windows) will supposedly look like. If you like this look, may I recommend the Chromifox Add-on? It sort of gives you the look and feel of Chrome, but with good ol’ Firefox under the hood.
is the free nickelback song supposed persuade people or dissuade people from using IE?
Any mac users feel like 3.5 and 3.5.1 is teh suck? FF has been buggy as hell lately, but still the best of what’s out there.
The add-ons is what makes firefox so great, here are my favorites
Cooliris
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579
Similarweb
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10548
Tineye
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8922
Adblockplus
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865