It has been 4 and a half years in the making, but Firefox has finally surpassed 1 billion total downloads since Firefox 1.0 was first released.
Here are some other interesting milestone statistics:
- Firefox 1.0 is released on November 9, 2004, 1200 days ago.
- 100 million reached on October 19, 2005, 344 days later.
- 200 million reached on August 2, 2006, 287 days later.
- 300 million reached on February 12, 2007, 193 days later
- 400 million reached on September 7, 2007, 207 days later.
- 500 million reached today February 22, 2008, 168 days later.
- 1 billion reached today July 31, 2009.
Congratulations to the Firefox team and here’s to the next 1 billion!