Firefox hits 1 billion downloads

Mozilla Corp.'s popular Firefox browser surpassed the 1-billion download milestone on Friday.

The figure includes downloads of all versions of the web software, dating back to its release in 2004. The browser has an estimated 31 percent share of the world market.

Firefox will also launch a new website called "one billion plus you" on Monday.

Last year, the foundation set a new Guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours when the third version of Firefox was downloaded more than eight million times.

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer still dominates the browser market with about 60 percent, far ahead of the rest of the pack which includes Google Inc.'s Chrome and Apple Inc.'s Safari which have less than 5 percent of the market.