Firefox reaches 500 million downloads

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By cgull8m

Firefox celebrates 500 Million Downloads. Photo courtesy  Spreadfirefox.com.
Firefox celebrates 500 Million Downloads. Photo courtesy Spreadfirefox.com.

The Firefox Internet browser reached a golden target of 500 million downloads today, and their parent organization Mozilla is celebrating by raising money to deliver 500 million grains of rice for the UN World Food Program.

Mozilla has withstood the competitors’ onslaught (especially from Microsoft's Internet Explorer) and with perseverance, it has reached a golden target of 500 million downloads.

Mozilla is celebrating this download mark by trying to raise money to donate more than 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice.com. Mozilla asks users to participate in a word game and for every question answered correctly, Free Rice will donate 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to end hunger.

Go play this game here and help fulfill Mozilla’s goal of 500 million grains of rice that will feed 250,000 people for a day.

Marketshare reported Firefox has more than 17 per cent market share and 150 million active users. Internet Explorer is still dominating but mainly because it is preloaded with every computer. It's dominance is slowly diminishing.

Mozilla released Firefox 3 beta 3 recently mainly for developers and its testing community. After testing it, many have said it is one fastest browsers available on the Web.


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compu-smart profile image

compu-smart  says:
5 months ago

cgull8m..This is such an appropriate article especially with your 500 hubs,,Congrats:)

If it was not for you and me it would still be on 499.999,998!!!!

cgull8m profile image

cgull8m  says:
5 months ago

You are right great point :), we should convert everyone in Hubpages to Firefox, I am sure many would have clicked your Firefox links :). Cheers.

compu-smart profile image

compu-smart  says:
5 months ago

:)yw.

spacebull profile image

spacebull  says:
5 months ago

Firefox is one of the more important software products in history. I love it and it's open source.

cgull8m profile image

cgull8m  says:
5 months ago

I agree Spacebull, it is like a mini computer in the web, there are so many extensions, it acts like a software for it. :)

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