On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone.
"With a minimal set of tools—an affiliate system, a small donations fundraising system, blogs, galleries, forums, and the good old human larynx—you all are spreading Firefox to a quarter of a million people a day. More than 500,000 sites now link to Firefox according to Google—a fivefold increase from six months ago.
What was just a small flame 100 days ago has since exploded into a phenomenal demonstration of the power of open source. Tens of thousands of devoted users and fans are a powerful and capable force of change. We have created a special commemorative image if you would like to mark this milestone on your own site.
In celebration of this 25 million downloads milestone, and in celebration of each and every one of you, the Mozilla Store is offering a 25% discount on Firefox t-shirts, polo shirts (non-launch), plush toys and hats. This discount is available now and will last until 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, February 17.
As an additional "token" of our appreciation, we are also pleased to announce that the kind folks over at CoinsForAnything have offered to provide us with 100 free collectors' coins to commemmorate this milestone in Internet history. We have provided a mockup above of how these coins will look. We will be awarding a quarter of these coins to the top 25 most active SpreadFirefox members, where "most active" is defined by the number and quality of the member's posts (as rated by the community), how many comments he's posted, whether or not he has engaged the community by rating other users' posts, and how much affiliate traffic he has generated for Firefox. We have placed much greater emphasis on how a member has helped grow the sfx community than on how much traffic he has sent to Firefox."
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