Firefox hits 400 Million Downloads; Eat that IE!

News out of the Firefox camp tonight is that the browser has been downloaded over 400 million times. Very impressive. I guess next up is to pass 500 million or the half-a-billion mark. (yep, I did the math!).

One has to wonder if Microsoft had actually innovated IE over the years if Firefox would ever have been created in the first place. Who rememebers building a Web site for IE3 or IE4. Let's not even talk about Frontpage because it's a Friday night and I want you to enjoy the evening. Even today, IE has not really innovated, instead they just take features from other companies, jam it into IE and put that company out of business. While IE is now more "compliant" as a browser, I find that it crashes anytime I close it with more then 3 tabs.

FYI, in the last 7 days, 57% of visits to CN have used Firefox, 31% IE, 7.5% Safari and 1.6% Opera.

Congrats to the Firefox team and keep innovating so Microsoft has something to add into IE8. :-P