Less than a year ago, the Mozilla community released Firefox 3 and made an event out of it. The community urged users to download the new browser the day it was released: June 17, 2008. The Mozilla’s goal was to set a record for the most downloads of a single application within a 24-hour period. The event was a success — but then there was no previously existing record, so I suppose you could argue it was a rather hollow victory.

At any rate, the Firefox browser received more exposure than it ever had up to that point. According to the Web site Market Share, Firefox had 18.41 percent of the Web browser market in May 2008. The latest figures show that Firefox accounts for 22.05 percent of the Web browser market as of March 2009. Even with the addition of new browsers like Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome, Firefox has become more popular.