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Firefox: 1,000,000,000 Downloads
As we reported yesterday, Firefox was on track to pass one billion downloads at some point on Friday. That point is now, as the counter on the Spread Firefox site as well as the Firefox Counter Twitter account are sporting numbers in the 10 digits.
Mozilla plans to launch the website onebillionplusyou.com on Monday, but for now, has provided a number of graphics to mark the event.
Of course, more important than total downloads is the actual percentage of active web users that use the browser. Recent stats peg Firefox with 22 percent of the browser market, up about 4 percent from this time last year. Meanwhile, Safari continues to grow, while upstart Google Chrome is slowly gaining adoption. All of this continues to come at the expense of Internet Explorer, which is still steadily losing market share.
First Look: Firefox 3.7’s New Design
It hasn’t even been a month since Firefox 3.5 was released to the masses, but Mozilla is already hard at work on Firefox 3.7. We gave you a sneak peek at what features are coming in 2010, but now we know what Firefox 3.7 may look like when it’s released.
Mozilla is known for constantly gathering feedback from its users to improve Firefox – this is why it offers multiple Firefox release candidates for download before launching the final version. So the company has turned to the web community for feedback on the preliminary design for Firefox 3.7 These screenshots, posted on the Mozilla Firefox wiki yesterday, highlight not only a cosmetic change for the browser, but at least three additional features.
In fact, Mozilla took the time to explain these three changes from the 3.5 browser, corresponding to the first screenshot below. Here’s their new feature list on the wiki:
1. Embracing Glass: Toolbar and Tabs using Glass. Buttons translucent and slightly glossy to meld with the toolbar. Raised 3D lookachieve tactile “feel”.
2. Page Button: Connect the Page button to the left side of the tab area. Directly connected to the Page.
3. Tools/Bookmark Bar: Connecting the Tools button to the side of the window to emphasize the fact that it is used for customizing and changing the UI. Adding a button next to that to toggle the Bookmarks bar which is turned off by default.
Will Apple’s Push of Safari with iTunes Cut into Mozilla’s Google Money?
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on March 24th, 2008
When you update iTunes, Apple pushes their Safari browser to you. It’s not all that surprising that they’d want to do this, considering they now have Safari for Windows, and pretty much told everyone that they’d be doing it. But nevertheless, the move seems to have ruffled a few feathers, particularly those at Mozilla. But why do they care, and how is it any different from what any other software company does? What it all comes down to is money . You know, the root of all evil and cause of countless fights. In this case, Mozilla, who has captured a significant share of the browser world, gets a lot of money from Google, who pays to be the top search engine in their browser. A little search box in the top right corner of the Mozilla Firefox browser features Google as its main search engine. Mozilla didn’t just decide that Google was the coolest kid on the block, and made them number 1 out of the kindness of their hearts – Google pays for this privilege. The more people who get Firefox, and the more people who conduct searches on Google through Firefox, the more kickbacks Mozilla receives. If Apple jumps into the game, and starts pushing their browser to iTunes users, it is feasible that they too could capture a decent market share. But their gain would be Mozilla’s loss.
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Will Apple’s Push of Safari with iTunes Cut into Mozilla’s Google Money?