Mozilla’s Firefox Browser Hits One Billion Downloads

Late Thursday night, Mozilla reached a milestone one billion downloads of its Firefox Web browser.

“This is a monumental event - Firefox has come a long way since its debut in November 2004, thanks to the amazing Firefox community,” Mozilla wrote in a blog post. “Volunteers from all over the world contribute to the coding, testing and spreading of Firefox to communities across the globe. Firefox 3.5 shipped in 75 languages - more than any other browser.”

As of 3pm Eastern time Friday, the download counter registered 1,000,351,823 downloads of the open-source browser. Users were accessing it at a rate of 22.9 downloads per second.

On Monday, Mozilla will launch a billionth download hub at http://www.onebillionplusyou.com/.

Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 in June 2008, and the browser garnered 8 million downloads in 24 hours. Firefox 3.5 hit the Web late last month.