Mozilla Celebrates 10 Million Firefox Downloads

**davec8** · December 11th, 2004, 04:32 PM

The Mozilla Foundation has announced that its Firefox browser has been downloaded over 10 million times in the last 31 days. On average, Firefox has been downloaded 4 times per second since its release on November 9th. The Foundation originally estimated 10 million downloads to be reached after 100 days of public availability.

As Firefox users continue to swell in number, many are wondering what became of the planned New York Times advertisement. In an interview published earlier this week, Mozilla volunteer Rob Davis commented that "It's taken a little longer than we'd originally planned," and that he expected the advertisement to run somewhere between the middle of December and Christmas.

The next major release of Firefox is scheduled for March of 2005. Firefox 1.1 (Dubbed "Deer Run") will be the end-result of merging the Aviary (Fx 1.0) branch with the main Mozilla code trunk. In the meantime, Mozilla plans to release a new version of Firefox for mobile devices dubbed "Minimo". Firefox "Minimo" is expected to compete with "Opera for Mobile" sometime this coming January.

Source Neowin.net

**.:sp00ky:.** · December 11th, 2004, 04:51 PM

yey for firefox!

SanDiegoKid · December 11th, 2004, 06:05 PM

Tabbed browsing is the best. I wish you could have multiple homepages that load on Firefox's startup. Hmm.. maybe there's an extension... off I go!

**ducttapeBigSexy** · December 11th, 2004, 06:27 PM

sweet - way to go, firefox (and community :) )!

**davec8** · December 11th, 2004, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by kleenr

Tabbed browsing is the best. I wish you could have multiple homepages that load on Firefox's startup. Hmm.. maybe there's an extension... off I go!

You can have as many homepages as you want with Firefox. No extension needed. I have 5 different homepages load on startup. Just open each site you want to load on startup in a different tab. Go to Tools, Options, General. Click ``use current pages``. All those sites will load on startup.

**ratbag** · December 11th, 2004, 06:52 PM

impressive numbers for a cool app

SanDiegoKid · December 11th, 2004, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by davec8

You can have as many homepages as you want with Firefox. No extension needed. I have 5 different homepages load on startup. Just open each site you want to load on startup in a different tab. Go to Tools, Options, General. Click ``use current pages``. All those sites will load on startup.

As savvy as I like to think I am... I never would have simply tried it. Thanks.