The popular Mozilla Firefox browser, a direct competitor of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, exceeded the ceiling of one billion downloads. According to an article in the web technology PcActual during today’s browser has come to be downloaded up to 24 times per second.

The figure does not mean that Firefox is one billion active users, the number reflects the number of times it has been downloaded since its introduction in 2004. Firefox is currently in version 3.5 and is one of the fastest browsers, behind only of Google Chrome

According to a recent study, just over 20% of Spanish internet users use Firefox to browse the Internet.

Browser wars

Microsoft proposed last week to the European Commission to be a solution for users to decide what browsers installed on the new operating system Windows 7. The software giant and trying to avoid a further fine of Brussels, which accused him of abuse of dominant position to include the Internet Explorer on Windows.

The solution proposed by Microsoft is a home screen from which users can easily install, if desired, rival Explorer browsers such as Firefox or Chrome, set one as default, and even disable the Explorer.

With this proposal, including the Windows Internet Explorer 7. At the same time, Microsoft recognizes the principle that users should be able to choose freely their browser and posed method (the home screen) to get it, according to the Community Executive stressed. “The Commission welcomes this proposal and investigate its effectiveness in practice now to ensure that consumers can choose,” explained the executive community in a statement.

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