What an amazing year it's been! (reposted from Spread Firefox.)
On November 9th, 2004, Firefox 1.0 was released to the world (in 17 languages and on 5 platforms) and Spread Firefox, and the rest of the Mozilla community celebrated with parties all around the globe.
After the parties and fun, we dove into the task of getting Firefox 1.0 into the hands and onto the machines of millions of new users. In just one month, our grassroots community spread Firefox to more than 10 million users and we celebrated Firefox and our amazing community with two full pages in the New York Times.
You all didn't let up. The pundits said that we couldn't sustain, and you all answered by spreading Firefox to 25 million people in the first 99 days!
Here we are, a year later, with more than 100 million downloads and we're still charging just as strong as we were at the beginning of the year with between 7 and 9 million downloads a month and the experts saying that we've achieved 10% of the browser market!
You all have accomplished so much to get us where we are. You've proved that grassroots organizing on the web is a force to be reckoned with and that great products, supported by a dedicated community of volunteers can take on even the biggest software company in the world.
Thanks to your efforts, we're in an awesome position as we get set for the launch of Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.5 will build all all of the great work we've done in getting this far but we're going to take it to a whole new level in the year upcoming. We're going to ship a awesome new Firefox in more than 40 languages and we're going to take Spread Firefox international as well. We're going to offer Firefox users some amazing and innovative new features that make the web easier -- and we're going to build out our Spread Firefox features to make your work here easier and more productive.
Whate an amazing year it's been. And what an amazing year we have ahead.
