{"id":147,"date":"2008-11-19T13:03:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-05-06T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T21:40:56","slug":"1-billion-add-on-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/11\/19\/1-billion-add-on-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Billion Add-on Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, addons.mozilla.org reached a huge milestone: <b>we served our 1 billionth add-on download<\/b> since we started keeping track of downloads in 2005.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2008\/11\/totaldownloads.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2008\/11\/totaldownloads.png\" alt=\"Graph showing total number of add-on downloads over time\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This number only includes downloads from <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\">addons.mozilla.org<\/a>, but as many add-ons are hosted elsewhere, we can be sure the actual number is even higher. This is a very exciting week for Firefox add-ons, with the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/11\/18\/fashion-your-firefox-a-new-distribution-channel-for-add-ons\/\">Fashion Your Firefox<\/a> yesterday, offering a new way for first-time add-on users to customize their browser.<\/p>\n<p>This amazing feat was made possible by the huge community of add-on users, developers, and enthusiasts, as well as non-Firefox applications that embrace Mozilla add-ons like Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Sunbird, Komodo, Flock, and Songbird, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>At 1.5 million add-on downloads per day and increasing, I&#8217;m confident our next billion will arrive even more quickly than the 3.5 years it took for the first. If you&#8217;re not using an add-on yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashionyourfirefox.com\">try one out<\/a>. 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This number only includes downloads from addons.mozilla.org, &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/11\/19\/1-billion-add-on-downloads\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,581],"tags":[577],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1 Billion Add-on Downloads - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/11\/19\/1-billion-add-on-downloads\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/11\/19\/1-billion-add-on-downloads\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2008\/11\/19\/1-billion-add-on-downloads\/\",\"name\":\"1 Billion Add-on Downloads - 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