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Firefox hits 10 million downloads
By Wolfgang Gruener, Senior Editor
December 13, 2004 - 17:38 EST
Chicago (IL) - Spread Firefox, the initiative behind the promotion of Mozilla's new browser, announced that the software was downloaded more than ten million times within 32 days after launch.
Downloads of the Firefox apparently are still going strong. According to Mozilla.org, 10,440,081 packages have been downloaded since November 9 from its own website alone, not counting the countless websites hosting the download files around the globe. For example, download.com lists current downloads from its server at 1,378,469.
The organization said that it took about ten days for the Firefox Preview to reach about two million downloads. The final version crossed the ten million mark in about 32 days. A print ad to promote the browser and paid for by the user community in the meantime has been completed and will be sent out in "the next days" for publication in the New York Times, a post on the website said.
Mozilla Europe recently published a Firefox ad in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a German daily newspaper in a similar initiative and donations of about $62,000.
Market research firm WebSideStory Monday said that Firefox use in the US climbed 34 percent in November, after an increase of just 13 percent in November. The firm believes that new Firefox users mainly switched from the Internet Explorer.
WebSideStory estimates Internet Explorer's market share at slightly more than 90 percent and Firefox' use just under five percent. The firm said that it does not believe that Firefox will be strong enough to ignite another browser like the battle between Netscape Navigator/Communicator and Internet Explorer in the mid nineties.
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