Congratulations to the Mozilla team on getting 1 billion downloads. It seems only like yesterday when Firefox was still known as Phoenix, using the Orbit theme. Ah, how software matures as we go...

Mozilla browser, Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox. In November 2004 Firefox 1.0 was officially released, back then it was the first time that the Mozilla Foundation worked on an end user product (Mozilla Suite was intended to be used by third parties, like Netscape). Featuring a smaller footprint, a native theme, a cutting edge rendering engine, tabbed browsing and extensions, Firefox gained a lot of interest from technology lovers and web developers alike. But with the help of the Mozilla community, shaped as Spread Firefox, did not only "techies" use it, but also those around them. In the end the rapid adoption of Firefox lead to 100 million downloads in its first year of availability.

And now it's 10x more in less then 4 years! Now that's one nice record to own. If you haven't upgraded yet, or if you're using another browser, be sure to check out Firefox 3.5 as it comes with a but-load of new features, such as private browsing, color profile support, faster JavaScript and much, much more!