A few hours ago Mozilla celebrated the 1 billionth download of Firefox. The browser which has roughly one third of the browser market share was first released in 2004 has gained significant popularity over the last few years. Part of this was due to the fact that the developers and users behind the Netscape web browser went on to create and use this new open source alternative. 

Globally Firefox commands 31% of the browser space and 28% in Great Britain. Although Firefox 3.5.1 was only released on 16th of July 2009 leaks of Firefox 4.0 have already started to emerge. The new generation Firefox browser is likely to have an interface similar to that of Google’s Chrome browser and will apparently have translucent effects.

To celebrate the 1billionth download Mozilla Corporation has already created a website to mark this landmark occasion >> www.onebillionplusyou.com . It has been estimated that Firefox is downloaded every 2 seconds and that the Firefox market share could increase now that it is going to be bundled with Windows in Europe. If you would like to try out Firefox 3.5 go to www.firefox.com or www.mozilla.com/firefox.