Firefox First Birthday Celebrations

Mozilla Firefox browser recently celebrated its 100 million downloads. And now its time for first birthday celebrations.

The Spread Firefox community celebrates firefox’s first birthday. Here are some excerpts -

“On November 9th, 2004, Firefox 1.0 was released to the world (in 17 languages and on 5 platforms) and Spread Firefox, and the rest of the Mozilla community celebrated with parties all around the globe.

After the parties and fun, we dove into the task of getting Firefox 1.0 into the hands and onto the machines of millions of new users. In just one month, our grassroots community spread Firefox to more than 10 million users and we celebrated Firefox and our amazing community with two full pages in the New York Times.

You all didn’t let up. The pundits said that we couldn’t sustain, and you all answered by spreading Firefox to 25 million people in the first 99 days!

Here we are, a year later, with more than 100 million downloads and we’re still charging just as strong as we were at the beginning of the year with between 7 and 9 million downloads a month and the experts saying that we’ve achieved 10% of the browser market!”

You can add your own Birthday Message for Firefox by taking a photo or screen grab and uploading it to the Birthday Gallery.