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The Firefox browser has just hit one billion downloads!

Well done guys! The Firefox browser created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross first launched on the 9th of November 2004 has just reached one BILLION downloads.

However the Firefox browser has been around a little longer than you might think and has come under various guises.

The Firefox browser was originally named Phoenix then Phoenix browser, Firebird, Firebird Browser and so on!

Safe to say the Firefox browser we have come to love so much has had more names than Liz Taylor!

Literally moments ago the Firefox counter twitter page at www.twitter.com/firefoxcounter updated to display over one billion downloads.

“1,000,019,496 downloads at 24.1 per second on 2009-07-31 15:00 UTC”

Well worth a blog post and a tweet I thought!

Well done FF

JP

Tags: browsers, firefox

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