Mozilla released its new Firefox 4 before a month ago today and within a day it had more than twice as many downloads as Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 after its launch. Currently the browser build already hit more than 100 million downloads after one month in existence, according to the Firefox download stats ticker.
The more impressive is that the browser has now taken over 7.98% of the worldwide browser market according to StatCounter within last 7 days (From 16 to 22 April 2011), with Internet Explorer 8.0 at 30.35%, Firefox 3.6 at 18.62% and Chrome 10 at 16.67%.
Why Firefox Is Popular?
Firefox is widely used by the web developers due to wide range of addons or extension developed by the huge firefox community and also that are freely available. You can find full feature list form official Firefox Feature page.
Useful Links
Download : Firefox 4
Download : Firefox extensions
Firebox is the best browsers out there. The addons and the extensions they have is amazing. I love that way my browser looks like the way I want it to look.
Its not a surprise that Firefox 4 has 100 million downloads in one month, everyone is updating to it.
Esmir O
Esmir, You are right that everyone is updating to it but still more people uses firefox 3.6 and internet explorer 8.0. You can see that at statcounter link which I mentioned in the post. Also some extensions still not update to the latest version of firefox so people like to use the version 3.6