Firefox hits 500 million downloads

Firefox, the second most popular web browser behind IE 6/7, reached a milestone of 500 million downloads. Firefox has been around for about 4 years, and it has gradually gained market share for a myriad reasons: open source, extension support, skin support, lack of Active X support, etc.

We thought about baking Firefox another cake but it felt a little decadent given that Firefox is asking users to head over to FreeRice and play their games to help donate rice to those in need. Something about eating butter-creme frosting and thinking of starving children just didn't work so well. Instead, by playing FreeRice and choosing the correct meaning of the displayed word, you'll send 20 grains of rice -- per word -- to an area of the world in need.

Congrats Firefox, here's to reaching the next milestone!

Tags: downloads, firefox, freeware, opensource