Mozilla’s popular Firefox web browser has reached one billion downloads today. Currently, the download counter stands at 1,000,066,665. The downloads have been counted since the release of the first official version of Firefox in November 2004.

I was actually a happy user of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer until about one year ago when I finally made the switch. I’ve been using Firefox almost exclusively ever since, being convinced that it is the superior browser. Especially the new version of Firefox is very fast, easy to customize and just fun to use.

Mozilla has registered the domain name OneBillionPlusYou.com, where it is going to launch a website to celebrate this milestone. The site isn’t online yet, but it should be up soon now that the magic number has been crossed.