What is Download Day 2008
Download Day 2008 is a marketing initiative by Mozilla to set a world record downloads of Firefox 3 when it is launched this year. People who pledge to help Mozilla set the record would be intimated through email before the launch date.
02 Jun 08 | browsers | Firefox Reaches 500 Million Downloads
Firefox has now been downloaded 500,000,000 times. This is a milestone for the browser that now has a regular users base of over 150 million users. The site claims a 17% share in the browser market where Internet Explorer is the market leader.
Firefox Popularity in Europe
Firefox usage is leaping ahead in Europe. In the beginning of 2007, Firefox had a 7.3 percent market share in Europe. In one year’s time, this has increased to 28 percent! The top 3 market for Firefox in Europe in terms of market share are:
1. Finland - 45.4%
2. Slovenia - 44.6%
3. Poland - 42.4%
31 Jan 08 | browsers | Most Popular Browser in Businesses
Internet Explorer remains the most favorite corporate browser. The market share ascertained from 17 top B2B websites are
Internet Explorer (IE) - 67%
Firefox - 16%
Netscape - 9%
Google Desktop - 3%
Netscape Navigator dead?
AOL that acquired Netscape in November 1998 shall stop development work on the Netscape Navigator browser from February 1, 2008. This shall mark the end of the first commercial Internet browser.
The browser first came into being in October 1994 and it currently has a 0.6% market share in the browser market.
What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox?
You had always thought about it right? Well, till now, Mozilla owned two things:
Firefox - browser
Thunderbird - email
Now, they are also adding a new web service called Weave. Weave is a way for users to store their username, passwords, bookmarks and preferences to invoke it in case their hard drive fails or the user is on a guest machine.
Which is the most popular browser?
The recent report from NetApplications on the popularity of browsers by usage throws the following percentage share of the different browsers in the market:
Internet Explorer : 77.35%
Mozilla Firefox : 16%
Safari : 5.14%
Opera : 0.65%
Netscape : 0.60%
05 Dec 07 | browsers | How many Mozilla users?
New study based on pings to Mozilla server estimates that the number of Firefox users is around 49 million. Studies in July had estimated the number of be around 33 million.
Users actually adopting Firefox after download: 28 percent
04 Dec 07 | browsers | How much does Mozilla Firefox earn?
Mozilla foundation owns assets around $70 million. In 2006, the revenues came to about $66 million. Of this $66 million, 85 percent has come from Google. Google pays Mozilla for every search from the Firefox Google search toolbar that converts to revenue.
Money sourced back as grants to Open-Source projects: $300,000
Mozilla foundation CEO earns $500,000 annually.