Interesting how they compare the numbers to IE 8 saying "...IE 8 has been downloaded more than 200 million times in the last four months since its release. That's a fifth of the way to what Firefox achieved since Firefox 1.0 was released nearly five years ago." But from what I can see at http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/ Firefox 3.5.1 has been downloaded over 70 million times. Not too shabby I think :) - sebastian☆rocket brother from Bookmarklet

Anyone knows when 3.5.1 came out? - sebastian☆rocket brother

Found it! July 16, 2009 ...That makes it 70 million downloads in little over 2 weeks? If that's correct, it's pretty amazing. - sebastian☆rocket brother

I don't know; is that a lot? - Michael Fidler

hahaha...I'm not sure if it is. I get lost when it starts going above what I can count on my fingers..:P I was just surprised they mentioned that 1 billion downloads since Firefox 1 is nothing much when you compare it to the giant IE which has 200 million for IE 8 only (it's been out only 4 months)... When I compare Firefox 3.5.1's 70 million (in 2 weeks) to IE 8's 200 million (in 4 months), Firefox's numbers look pretty big.. Last time I checked Firefox had only a tiny piece of the internet pie compared to IE. Long live competition!!! :D - sebastian☆rocket brother

Yeah! Thank god we're finally moving forward compared to all those years of stagnant IE6. Especially now with Chrome pushing Firefox and vice versa. Innovation is great. - sebastian☆rocket brother